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Ronald Jones is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Konstfack and leads The Experience Design Group. He is a guest professor in Experience Design at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India.

He served as the first Provost at Art Center College of Design and came to Art Center from Columbia University, where he was Professor of Visual Arts in the School of the Arts, and Co-Director of the Interactive Design Lab. Before joining the faculty at Columbia, Jones was Senior Critic at the School of Art, Yale University for nine years. He has also served on the faculty of the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule Frankfurt, the Royal Danish Academy of Art, Copenhagen, The Rhode Island School of Design, The School of Visual Arts, New York, among others.

He holds a Certificate from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, took the MFA degree from the University of South Carolina, and the Ph.D. in interdisciplinary studies from Ohio University. He has delivered over two hundred lectures at universities, museums, and art and design schools including Harvard University, The Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University, The Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Guggenheim Museum, The Rhode Island School of Design, Parsons School of Design, DIA Center for the Arts, New York City, Royal College of Art, London, Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts at MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, Brown University, Akademie Der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, the Architectural Association, London, among others.

Jones contributes regularly to Art Forum and frieze and writes frequently on contemporary art and design for various international publications.

A practicing artist Jones has exhibited internationally. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, among others. Jones is represented by Metro Pictures and the Sonnabend Gallery in New York. His first opera “Falling and Waving” was produced by the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Arts at Saint Ann’s in New York City in 1999. He is at work on a second opera titled “Moon Shot.”

He sits on the boards of numerous cultural organizations.