Otis Jones (b. 1946, Galveston, TX, US; d. 2025, Dallas, TX, US), has held solo exhibitions at  Sorry We're Closed (Brussels; 2026, 2023, 2019), Nino Meir (New York; 2025, Los Angeles 2021) Semiose (Paris; 2022)  Vito Schnabel (New York, 2023) Sunday-S (Copenhagen; 2019, 2017), Gray Contemporary (Houston; 2017), annex14 (Zürich; 2016), and William Campbell Contemporary Art (Fort Worth; 2012) Marc Strauss (New York; 2021, 2019, 2018), Barry Whistler (Dallas; 2020, 2016. He was the recipient of a Visual Artists Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (1982), and holds a BFA from Kansas State University, and an MFA from the University of Oklahoma.  He has taught at Texas Christian University, the University of Texas at Austin, and has served as an Associate Professor and Visiting Professor at University of Texas at Arlington.  Jones' work is in many major public collections, including at the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas), the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio), the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City), Springfield Art Museum, Sprinfield and the Fonds Region d'Art Contemporain d'Auvergne, (Clemont-Ferrand, France)