Deon Jones

Deon Jones is a musician with one of the most important voices of his generation. His first artistic project, a powerful rendition of “Sunday Bloody Sunday” featuring Academy Award winning composer Jon Batiste, has been hailed by Rolling Stone Magazine as “transformative” and by the Boston Globe as “a performance with clarifying power.”

Jones was shot by police in the face with a rubber bullet during the 2020 summer protests. Redirecting this trauma into artistic energy, Jones extended his nearly decade-long collaboration with artist Glenn Kaino into a critically lauded, monumental exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art titled “In The Light of A Shadow.” Deon, a Harry S. Truman Scholar and 2021 Ebony Magazine Power 100 Honoree, is an artist that embodies the paradox and opportunity of our time.