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Amelia Jones (born July 14, 1961) is an American art historian, professor and curator. Her research specialisms include feminist art, body art, performance art, video art, identity politics, and New York Dada. Jones’s earliest work established her as a feminist scholar and curator, including through a pioneering exhibition and publication concerning the art of Judy Chicago; later, she broadened her focus on other social activist topics including race, class and identity politics.
Born in Durham, North Carolina, Jones is the daughter of Virginia Sweetnam Jones and Edward E. Jones, a Princeton psychology professor.
Jones studied art history as an undergraduate at Harvard University and completed her M.A. at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles in 1991. Her dissertation was later turned into a published book, Postmodernism and the Engendering of Marcel Duchamp (1994).
On March 7, 1987, Jones married Anthony Sherin, a film editor. They divorced in 2005. In 2007, Jones married artist Paul Donald. She has two children from her first marriage. Jones currently resides in Los Angeles.
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