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HEAVEN C. JONES

I am a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, sound, and archival imagery to explore mourning, lineage, and Southern Black and Caribbean histories throughout South Florida.

My work is rooted in the everyday archives held within Black communities: funeral programs, family photographs, church traditions, memorial objects, and inherited stories passed between generations. As someone of Bahamian descent, I am especially interested in how migration, memory, and preservation shape both people and place throughout Miami-Dade County.

Through immersive installations and sculptural environments, I transform these materials into spaces that reflect grief, beauty, resilience, and collective remembrance. Much of my practice draws from Miami’s visual language, including cemetery landscapes, domestic interiors, metal fencing, and vernacular architecture found throughout historically Black communities.

I see my work as both personal archive and public memory.

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Photo By christopher aguste

CV & History
 

Exhibitions

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Commissions

Burnaway Magazine

Commissioned sculptural work and digitization project, forthcoming December 2026

W.A.G.E. compliant stipend

Residencies

Femme Continuum Artist Residency

Founder / Director

Miami, FL | October 2024–Present

Black Center of Innovation

Public Historian & Cultural Interpreter (with Dr. Marvin Dunn)

Miami, FL | October 2025–Present

Awards & Fellowships

Soho House Creative Futures Collective

Fellowship Program | April 2025–2026

Selected for a yearlong professional development program for emerging artists, focusing on mentorship, visibility, and creative project growth.

Talks / Panels / Presentations

Expanding During Displacement: Not Asking For Permission | Panelist — International Cuts Inc. (2025)

 

From the Souf to the Source: Meet Me At The Source | Lecturer — Amadlozi Gallery (2025)

 

Collection Plate: Black Mourning in Public Memory | Lecturer — Green Space Miami (2026)

Publications / Press

"How Has Your Practice Been Conditioned?"

Written by Lauryn Lawrence, Burnaway , (2025)

“Born, Bred and Sheddin’ The Souf, a group exhibition curated by Heaven Jones.”

Written by Lauryn Lawrence, Curatorial Forum, (2025)

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“Born, Bred, and Sheddin’ the Souf: A Love Letter to Liberty City’s Flea Market Era.”

Written by Mario Rodriguez, Too Much Love Magazine, (2025)

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Born, Bred, and Sheddin’ the Souf

International Cuts Inc., Miami, FL (2025)

Narratives of Identity — Saatchi Gallery, 

London, United Kingdom (2025)

Featured works from Born, Bred, and Sheddin’ the Souf by Phil Norville

Curated/Art Directed by Heaven Jones

Art House — African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, Amadlozi Gallery, Miami, FL (2025)

New Atlantis — Green Space Miami, Miami, FL (2025)

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