“Specialized in international education since 1986 I am creating a new series of Professional Coach-in-Residence programs to better serve students and staff at international universities. I am a leadership coach to MBAs at Columbia University and coach PhDs at University of Melbourne. Trained at Columbia in curriculum design I seek tp engage coaching as a resource to support professional trajectories at all levels.

Teaching since 1999, I have led PhD Masterclasses at Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London and now work individually with PhD Students at University of Melbourne, Australia. I am committed to building new knowledge and academic rigor in the arts.

A US Department of State ZERO1 Art and Technology Artist, I am active in Artistic Research since 1992 and lead US Public Diplomacy learning workshops and fieldwork.

I am a Research Scholar in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College and initiated in 2020 academic coaching to PhDs in Fine Art at university of Melbourne. As recipient of the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award I am creating a new series of interdisciplinary workshops at the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.”

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About: Les Joynes (b. Southern California, 1963) coaches senior executives and global leaders at Columbia University and initiating coaching at Yale Museums, University of Melbourne and is creating coaching curricula for MBAs at universities in California, A New York University certified coach, Les is professionally credentialed by the International Coaching Federation (ICF).

A graduate of the NYU’s professional multimedia artist based in New York, Les began his career researching higher education in 1986. Today he is Professor of Record for modern and contemporary art and experimental practices at Renmin University, Beijing and mentors cultural entrepreneurs on Peking University’s Institute for Cultural Industries.

Les received his BA (cum laude) History from Boston University; BA (Hons) Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London; MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London; PhD Fine Art, Faculty of Art, Environment and Technology, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK and Post-Doctorate in Fine Art, School of Communications and Arts, University of São Paulo, Brazil. Les also possesses a MA specialized in Asian Art from Musashino Art University, Tokyo; M.Sc from Boston University and the Vrije Universiteit Brussels Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences.

He was TrAIN Fellow at the University of the Arts London Research Center on Transnational Art, Identity and Nation.and from 2009-2020 he was scholar of contemporary visual cultures, art history, philosophy and education design at Columbia University. He currently is examining the future of arts PhDs and arts education in the Department of International and Transcultural Arts at Teachers College, Columbia University. 

With exhibition experience since 1980 Les has shown at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, Norimatsu Museum, Japan, Inside Out Museum, Beijing, and in London at the Barbican, Milch Gallery, and Nylon. His work has featured at the Bangkok experimental Film Festival, Asahi 2000 (Tokyo) Sculpture Magazine, Art Monthly, London, Commons & Sense, Tokyo and NHK Television Japan. Also active in curating he has curated exhibitions in Tokyo and was a member of the Curatorial Team that produced the first Taipei Biennial “Sites of Desire” exhibition in 1998.

Awards and grants include the 2021 Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award; ZERO1: Art and Technology Grant; Fulbright Mission China Award; CEC ArtsLink Foundation Grant for Mongolia and Russia; Taiwan Ministry of Education Huayu Scholarship; Renmin University of China Merit Award; the Wheatley Foundation Fellowship for Birmingham City University; US Department of State/ACMS Field Research Fellowship; Fulbright US Public Diplomacy Award for Mongolia; Queenstown Council Citation Award, Singapore; Edwin Austin Abbey Fellowship at the National Design Museum, New York; Bauhaus Foundation Fellow, the Nordic Artists Center Fellowship, Norway; Musashino Art University Selection Award; Japanese Ministry of Education and Culture Scholarship; Academic Honours, Central Saint Martins College of Art, London; Erasmus Scholarship, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-arts, Paris and the King Sturge Award for Sculpture, London.

Recent publications include “Artist-Centric Practices” in New Institutional Models: China’s Cultural Landscape by Mid-Century (2018), Long Museum, Shanghai, DrawnOver: Contemporary Drawing (2018), Vojvodina, Serbia: Museum of Contemporary Art [catalogue]; Going Beyond: Art as Adventure (2018): Cambridge Scholars UK; Anywhere v.1.(2015), Parsons School of Art; New York; Drawing: Inside Out Art Museum, New York: LeRoy Neiman Foundation [catalogue]; Art and Research at the Outermost Limits of Site Specificity, Newcastle, Australia and Octopus (2012) Journal for Visual Culture. Irvine: University of California, Irvine. Also trained in art criticism he has reviewed for Art in America, Springer, Flash Art; and the Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) in Bern. (image, Les presenting Keynote on Intercultural collaboration at Peking University, 2018)