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Kelly Lynn Jones (b. 1977 Los Angeles, CA) is a Los Angeles based artist. She earned a BFA and MFA from the College of the Arts in San Francisco. Jones has shown her work in multiple group exhibitions including The Pit at Frieze Los Angeles in 2023, La Loma Projects, The Lab, Kala Art Institute, The Berkeley Museum, Southern Exposure, Bedford Gallery, NURTUREart, and Charlotte Street Foundation. Her work has been highlighted in New American Painting 2023, The Wing’s 2020 publication, San Francisco Chronicle, and Museums Press. Kelly Lynn Jones is represented by The Pit, Los Angeles. Her work can be found in public collections including the Qgunquit Museum of American Art in Maine, US, the Aishti Foundation in Beirut, Lebanon and the X Museum in Beijing, China amongst other private collections worldwide.

Kelly Lynn Jones uses painting as a tool to pause time. Drawing inspiration from the rhythms of daily life, she constructs imagined spaces where stories unfold—blending the magical with the everyday. Through a personal mythology, she develops characters who come to life and take on central roles within her pictorial narratives.

Guided by flora and fauna, symbols of seasonality and impermanence, her work captures moments that are both romantic and playful. Her vibrant, pattern-filled paintings explore themes of nature, motherhood, memory, and the objects that populate our lives. Each piece offers a snapshot of the wistful and the wondrous, transforming ordinary experience into something enchanted.