G.B. Jones (b. 1965, Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada) is an artist, filmmaker, photographer, musician, and zine publisher whose multidisciplinary practice has had a profound influence on queer culture and contemporary art. Jones first gained recognition through J.D.s, the groundbreaking Toronto-based queer punk zine she co-founded with Bruce LaBruce, which became a defining publication of the queercore movement. During this period, she also co-founded the influential all-female punk band Fifth Column, whose music and politics helped shape the emergence of queer punk culture throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s. Her celebrated drawing series Tom Girls reimagines the homoerotic imagery of Tom of Finland by replacing his hypermasculine male protagonists with women, transforming an iconic visual language into a radical contribution to third-wave feminist and queer art. Since the early 2000s, Jones has developed an ongoing series of witch portraits inspired by cinema, folklore, and everyday life, recasting these historically marginalized figures as queer icons and symbols of resistance, community, and otherness. In 2002, Jones began a long-running collaboration with artist Paul P., producing a series of intricate collages that explore queer history, memory, and visual culture. Many of these works were later published in A Queer Anthology of Rage, edited by Richard Porter and released by Pilot Press in 2018.
G.B. Jones has exhibited her art nationally and internationally since the early 1990's, in spaces such as Air De Paris, Paris; White Columns, David Zwirner, Feature, Participant Inc., Brooklyn Museum, New York; MoCA Toronto, The Power Plant, Mercer Union, Cooper Cole, Toronto; Vancouver Art Gallery, Or Gallery, Vancouver; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus; Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna; Muncher Kunstverein, Munich; Gallery Neu, Schwules Museum, Berlin; amongst others. She was included in the 2012 exhibition This Will Have Been: Art, Love, and Politics in the 1990s, which was curated by Helen Molesworth for the MCA Chicago and subsequently travelled to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the ICA Philadelphia. G.B. Jones lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.