Samuel Levi Jones (born 1978) is an American artist, he is known for his paintings and assemblage art.
[1][2] Many of his works are abstract, and centered on African-American history, and identity; often using historically sourced materials.
[3][4] Samuel Levi Jones was born in 1978 in Marion, Indiana,[5] into an African-American family.
[6][7] Jones is related (great nephew, through marriage) to Abraham S. Smith, one of the two men publicly lynched in 1930 in Marion, Indiana.
[8] He has also had a solo exhibition at The Dayton Contemporary in Ohio titled The Empire is Falling, and Unbound at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.