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Joy Garnett

EDUCATION
1989–1991  MFA The City College of New York
1985–1986 L’École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris, France
1977–1983  BA McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; The American University in Cairo, Egypt

RESIDENCIES
2019-20 SHIFT Residency, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, NY
2007      iCommons Summit ’07 Dubrovnik, Croatia
2005      Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL

GRANTS AND AWARDS
2011 The Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
2004 Anonymous Was a Woman, New York
2003 Manhattan Community Arts Fund, LMCC, New York
2002 Manhattan Community Arts Fund, LMCC, New York
2000 The Wellcome Trust, London, UK
1990; 1991 Elizabeth Ralston McCabe Connor Award, The City College of New York

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
Deep Dish, Platform Gallery online
2016
Ends of the Earth, Slag Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY (catalog)
unmonumental, Platform Gallery online
2014
Being There, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
2010
Boom & Bust, Winkleman Gallery, NY
China Three Gorges Project, Roger Williams University School of Architecture, Art & Historic Preservation, RI
2008
Joy Garnett, New Paintings, Winkleman Gallery, NY
Scoundrel Time, Iona College Art Gallery, New Rochelle, NY
2007
Strange Weather, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC (catalog)
2004
Riot, Debs & Co., NY 2001 Rocket Science. Debs & Co., NY (catalog)
1999
Buster-Jangle, Debs & Co., NY (catalog)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Dead Ringer, curated by Elizabeth Duffy. Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI
2018 
Tiny Acts Topple Empires, curated by Heather Darcy Bhandari, The Woskob Family Gallery, State College, PA
Warmer, curated by Brian Wiggins, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA
2017
The Times, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
We need to talk…. Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
2016
Tell Me a Story, The B-Complex, Atlanta, GA
Carte Blanche, Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MD
2015
New York, I Love You, But…, curated by Keith Miller. Gallatin Galleries, N. Y. University, New York, NY
Human Territory Slag Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
FOODshed: Agriculture and Art in Action, curated by Amy Lipton. CR10 Arts, Linlithgow, NY
2014
A Gift to Birobidzhan, curated by Yevgeniy Fiks, 21S T. PROJECTS, New York, NY
Sargent’s Daughters, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY
The Last Brucennial,  Organized by the Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, NY
FOODshed: Agriculture and Art in Action, Curated by Amy Lipton. Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
The Wayland Rudd Collection Organized by Yevgeniy Fiks. Winkleman Gallery, NY; traveled to: First Floor Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe
Being There, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY
Full House, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium
Painting the Pixel, Gallery North, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2013
The Tool at Hand, Originating: Milwaukee Art Museum; traveled to: Philadelphia Art Alliance; Houston Center for Contemporary Craft; the Museum of Contemporary Craft Portland, OR
Digital Sensation, Baltic | 39, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Memphis Social, curated by Tom McGlynn. apexart exhibition held at different sites in Memphis, TN
Containment, Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
Show Me the JPEG, Winkleman Gallery, New York, NY
VIBE, curated by Mary Ann Strandell. Suite 303, New York, NY
Your Face is a Landscape, curated by Sara Reisman and Reina Shibata. Field Projects, New York, NY
Secret Wars, Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine), Curated by Amy Lipton. Ramapo College Art Galleries, Mahwah, NJ
2012
Migration of Objects. Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
Picture Takers, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
Caseworks, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, TN
2011
The Tool at Hand, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Beyond the Horizon Deutsche Bank Gallery, 60 Wall St, NY
With Food in Mind. Curated by Nicole Caruth, The Center For Book Arts, New York, NY
Three: Damien Flood / Joy Garnett / Andrew Seto, Theodore Arts, New York, NY
An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, Curated by Regine Basha. Cabinet, New York, NY; MASSMoCA, North Adams, MA
Bibliomania, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
2010
All Things Being Equal, curated by Tiffany Calvert. Raritan Valley Community College Art Gallery, Somerville NJ
2009
Things Fall Apart, curated by Joy Garnett. Winkleman Gallery, NY
On Aggression, curated by Hallie Cohen. The Philoctetes Center, NY
The There, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
Out of the Blue, organized with Joy Episalla & Amy Lipton. Gallery Bergen, Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ
Seeing as Believing: Phosphene Visions, Curated by Koan Jeff Baysa. Axis Gallery, with California State University Sacramento Art Dept / Center for Teaching and Learning (CSUS) /Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento (CCAS), CA
Psychedelia Paradise, EXPRMNTL Galerie, Toulouse, France
2008
That Was Then…This Is Now, MoMA P.S.1, Long Island City, NY
Pathetic Fallacy: Weather & Imagination, Curated by Hallie Cohen. The Philoctetes Center, NY
Atomic Afterimage, curated by Keely Orgeman. Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
Washington Project for the Arts Art Auction Gala. Curated by J.D. Talasek. American University Museum/ Katzen Center for the Arts, American University, Washington, DC
Transcendent & Sublime, curated by Deborah Frizzel. Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
Eden’s on Fire! Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
Registering the Invisible, curated by Clayton Colvin. Space 301, Mobile, AL
2007
Double X-Rated: Where the Girls Are, curated by Amelia Abdullahsani. Stellan Holm Gallery, New York, NY
Greener Pastures, Permanent Midnight, Curated by Ingrid Chu. Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY
One Day I Will Control the Sun, curated by J.J. Garfinkel. Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, NY
project: rendition: Joy Episalla, Joy Garnett, Carrie Moyer, Carrie Yamaoka  Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
Visionary Anatomies, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition; Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA; Art League of Long Island, Dix Hills, NY; Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA
2006
Image War: Contesting Images of Political Conflict, James Gallery/ Whitney Museum ISP
Peace Tower for the Whitney Biennial 2006. The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Prevailing Climate, Sara Meltzer Galley, New York, NY
When Artists Say We, Curated by Andrea Geyer and Christian Rattemeyer. Artists Space, New York, NY
Run For Your Lives! DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
2005
Atomic. Curated by Ombretta Agro & Lea Freid. Lombard-Freid Fine Arts & Esso Gallery, New York, NY
The Obligation to Endure: Art & Ecology since ‘Silent Spring’, New York Academy of Sciences
Blasts, G Fine Art, Washington, DC
Visionary Anatomies, Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition. The Monmouth Museum, NJ
After Nature, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium
Boost in the Shell (The Pursued), De Bond, Bruges, Belgium
2004
Terrorvision, Exit Art, New York, NY
The Infinite Fill Show, curated by Cory & Jamie Arcangel. Foxy Production, New York, NY
Watch What We Say, curated by Marc Lepson. Schroeder Romero, Brooklyn, NY
This is For Real: War & the Contemporary Audience, Stony Brook University Gallery, New York, NY
Visionary Anatomies, Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
Pulse of America, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium 2003 Americana. Curated by Anne Ellegood & Rachel Gugelberger, SVA West Side Gallery, New York, NY
The World’s a Mess, It’s in My Kiss, Debs & Co., NY Night Vision. University Art Gallery, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI
Without Fear or Reproach, De Witte Zaal, Ghent, Belgium
2002
Night Vision, Illinois State University Galleries, Normal, IL; traveled to: White Columns, New York, NY
Tactical Action, Gigantic ArtSpace, New York , NY
Friends & Family, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY
Eleven Bulls, 15 Artists, ProjectGreen, Brooklyn, NY
Eleven Bulls: NYC in DC, Decatur Blue/Washington Project for the Arts, Corcoran College of Art, Washington, DC
2001
SuperNature: Landscape in Contemporary Art, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Toxic Landscapes, The Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, NJ; traveled to Bibliotheca Nat’l, Havana, Cuba
2000
Dystopia & Identity in the Age of Global Communication, Tribes Gallery, New York, NY
The UFO Show, Illinois State University Galleries, IL; traveling (catalog)
N01se, curated by Adam Lowe. Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; The Wellcome Trust, London, UK
1999
Persuasion, curated by Roxana Marcoci & Lea Freid. Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY
Stars of Track and Field, Debs & Co., New York, NY
1998
Ground Control, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, NY Summer Show. Debs & Co., New York, NY
Bioethics: Thresholds of Corporal Completeness, Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Altria
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
The West Collection, Oaks, PA