Education
BFA, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy
AA (Art and Design), Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2008
168 sand, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006
Joy Episalla, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004
for the birds, Debs & Co., NYC, (catalog)
2003
for the birds, Studio 1.1, London, UK
2002
removed, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, (catalog)
gone, Clifford•Smith Gallery, Boston, MA,
removed, Debs & Co., NYC, (catalog)
2001
Joy Episalla, The Physical Photograph, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, (catalog)
2000
Recent Work, Clifford•Smith Gallery, Boston, MA
Joy Episalla, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON
1999
inside/out, Debs & Co., NYC, (catalog)
1998
Joy Episalla, Debs & Co., NYC
1996
Joy Episalla, Neue Galerie/Interaktion Kunst, Hannover, DE, (catalog)
Two-Person Exhibitions
2008
Medium Cool, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005
Domestic Sites of Love and Loss, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
2001
Surroundings, Clifford•Smith Gallery, Boston, MA
1988
Joy Episalla/Chris Howard, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
VISION IS ELASTIC. THOUGHT IS ELASTIC, curated by Moyra Davey & Zoe Leonard, Murray Guy, NYC
Group Exhibition, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, Il
Myself, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno
2010
Exquisite Landscape, International Center of Photography, NYC
ACT UP New York: Activism, Art & the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993, White Columns, NYC
SUPERNORMAL, Braziers International Workshop, Oxfordshire, UK
movement schmoovement, curated by Nancy Brooks Brody & Linda Matalon, La Mama La Galleria, NYC
2009
Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, BE
SENZA FRONTIERE / WITHOUT BORDERS Film Festival, Rome Italy
Tainted Love, curated by Steven Lam & Virginia Solomen, La Mama Gallery, fierce pussy, NYC
Mining The Archive, fierce pussy at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, Brooklyn, NY
out of the blue, curated by Joy Episalla, Joy Garnett & Amy Lipton Gallery Bergen, Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ
2008
Summary, Studio 1.1, London, UK
DIFFRACTED SOLSTIC , Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, BE
fierce pussy, Printed Matter, NYC
Break the Rules, Mannheimer Kunstverein, curated by Hieber/Theising, Mannheim, DE, (catalog)
2007
project:rendition, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York
The Last Seduction, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL, (catalog)
2006
All For One, One For All, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, BE
Inside/Outside; Treelines, curated by Amy Lipton, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
Group Exhibition, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
When Artists Say We, curated by Andrea Geyer & Christian Rattemeyer, Artists Space, NYC
out of the blue, curated by Joy Episalla & Joy Garnett, organized by Amy Lipton, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
2005
Sleigh, Arts & Business, London, UK
Obligation to Endure, curated by Nick Debs, New York Academy of Sciences, NYC
NEXT, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
Vanishing Point, curated by Claudine Ise; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, (catalog)
Group Exhibition of New Work by Gallery Artists, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
Unspeakable, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, BE
2004
Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003
Hot House, curated by Mary Jo Vath, New York Academy of Sciences, NYC
Pretty as a Picture: Beauty & Banality in Contemporary Art, curated by Lisa Boyle, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
Sculptural Prints, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
Up & Coming, curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Arte Contemporaneo Feria Internacional (ARCO), Madrid, ES
The World's A Mess It's In My Kiss, Debs & Co., NYC
2002
Snapshot, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2001
Peppermint, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
Image In The Landscape, The Fields Sculpture Park, Art/OMI, Ghent, NY
Chelsea Rising, curated by David Rubin, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, (catalog)
2000
Snapshot, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
Other Worlds; 28 Wooster St, NYC
1999
Photic 2, eyewash, Brooklyn, NY
Stars of Track & Field, Debs & Co. NYC
Unbehagen der Geschlechter/ Gender Trouble, curated by Lutz Heiber & Gisela Theising, Neuer Aachener,
Kunstrerein, Aachen, DE
Starwood Collection, Starwood, Washington, DC
1998
New York Collection, Albright Knox Rental/Sales Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Skin Deep, 123 Watts Gallery, NYC, (catalog)
Brenner Pass/Liberty Exchange/Niemandsland, Part 2, 4 Walls, Brooklyn, NY
1997
100 Live Girls All Night, NYC
Very Large Array, Debs & Co., New York, NY
Brenner Pass/Liberty Exchange/Niemandsland, 4 Walls, Italy/Germany
Home is where the Heart is, White Columns, NYC
Gramercy Art Fair, White Columns, NYC
Silence = Death, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück, DE
1996
Geopony, Adam Gallery, London, UK
Graphic Responses to AIDS, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
1995
interference, London Artforms Gallery, London, UK
fruit x-x-x, Jacklight Gallery, NYC
Other Rooms, Four Walls at Ronald Feldman Gallery, NYC
1994
Amendments, curated by Catherine Howe, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
Silence = Death, curated by Lutz Heiber & Gisela Theising, Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, DE
Before Stonewall, White Columns, NYC
1993
New Jersey Arts Annual, Newark Museum, NJ
Contacts/Proofs, Jersey City Museum, NJ
1992
The Other Landscape, Tribeca 148 Gallery, NYC
Urban Alchemy, OIA Gallery, New York, NY
1991
Outrageous Desire, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, (catalog)
Situation, curated by Nayland Blake & Pam Gregg, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Urban Alchemy, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
1990
Post-Consumerism: Part II–Designs and Ideas for the Waste Stream, Storefront for Art and Architecture, NYC
New Jersey Arts Annual, Jersey City Museum, NJ, (catalog)
1989
The Reductive Impulse, Coup de Grace Gallery, NYC
1988
Hudson County Artists, Jersey City Museum, NJ
Four Painters, Coup de Grace Gallery, Hoboken, NJ
1987
The Last Supper, Ludlow Graphic Arts, NYC
Group Exhibition, O Roe Electric, Hoboken, NJ
1985
Christopher Engel, Joy Episalla, Carrie Yamaoka, Four Walls, Hoboken, NJ
1984
Before and After, Four Walls, Hoboken, NJ
1983
Seven Painters, Ramapo College, Ramapo, NJ
1981
Rutgers National Drawing Show, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ
Grants & Fellowships
2009
Artists Space/ Expanded Art Ideas Education Program, Artist Residence, NYC
2008
Artists Space/ Expanded Art Ideas Education Program, Artist Residence, NYC
2007
Artists Space/Artists in/ED, Artist Residence, NYC
2006
Fenenin El-Rahhal, (Nomadic Artists), 2006 International Artists Summit, organized by Lara Baladi, sponsored by the Goethe Institute and the Ford Foundation, Western Desert & Cairo, Egypt
Artists Space/Artists in/ED, Artist Residence, NYC
2005
Artists Space/Artists in/ED, Artist Residence, NYC
2003
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, NYC
1998
Braziers Workshop, Oxfordshire, UK
1995
Braziers Workshop, Oxfordshire, UK
1985
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
Teaching & Lectures
2009
School of Visual Arts, MFA Program, NYC ,New York University, NYC
2008
International Center of Photography, ICP–Bard Program in Advanced Photographic Studies, MFA Program
2007
crossing over: ACT UP & fierce pussy / Art & Activism, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
School of Visual Arts, MFA Program, NYC
2006
Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo, Egypt
School of Visual Arts, MFA Program, NYC
2005
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
School of Visual Arts, MFA Program, NYC
2004
School of Visual Arts, MFA Program, NYC
2003
International Center for Photography, MFA Program, curated by Nayland Blake, NYC
Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA
2001
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2000
Mercer Union, Toronto, ON
NAOO Conference, curated by Robert Bedoya, NYC
1998
Cooper Hewitt Museum, curated by Barbara Hunt, NYC
Curatorial Projects
2009
out of the blue. Curated by Joy Episalla, Joy Garnett, and Amy Lipton at Gallery Bergen, Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ.
2006
Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA. Participating artists include Stephen Andrews, Michele Araujo, Robert Bordo, Diane Burko, Christos Dikeakos / Robert Smithson, John Dougill, Joy Episalla, Joy Garnett, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Jacqueline Gourevitch, Erik Hanson, Geoff Hendricks, JJ L'Heureux, Bill Jones, Zoe Leonard, Frank Moore, Jaanika Peerna, Andrea Polli, Hunter Reynolds, Austin Thomas, Bing Wright, Carrie Yamaoka, Andrea Zittel. (multiple/brochure with illus.), http://outoftheblueproject.org
2007
project:rendition: a collaborative project by artists Joy Episalla, Carrie Moyer and Carrie Yamaoka, known as JC2. The exhibition takes as its focal point the practice of "rendering" or making people disappear, either literally—as in the "extraordinary renditions" practiced by the Bush Administration—or more indirectly by rendering them politically and existentially mute. The exhibition is augmented by a curated series of performances that use the gallery installation as an arena in which the performer is fully audible and partially visible to the audience, while the audience remains invisible to the performer. Performers include: Jake Araujo-Simon, Anna Blume, William Allen, David Levi Strauss, Cindy Carr and Kay Turner. Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York. (multiple/poster), www.projectrendition.info
Reviews & Publications
2008
Kinkley, Jonathan, "Medium Cool", TimeOut/Chicago, Issue 162: April 3-9, Illus.,
Artner, Alan, "Atmospheric reflections captured within … hotel television sets", Chicago Tribune, March 21, p. 18, illus.
fierce pussy, exhibition catalog, published by Printed Matter, NYC, April, Illus
Hieber/Theising: Break the Rules, exhibition catalog, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, DE
2007
The New Yorker, "project:rendition", June 25, p. 17
Hickey, Dave & Secrist, Carrie: The Last Seduction, A Welcome Surrender to Beauty, exhibition catalog, published by Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
The New Yorker, Goings on About Town, Art : 'project:rendition', June 25
Time Out/New York, Art, Momenta Art: 'project:rendition', May 31- June 6, p. 82
2006
Badtke-Berkow, Joseph: 'Art in a sea of sand', The Daily Star, Egypt, Dec. 14, p. 25, illus.
Terzian, Peter: 'Screen Savers', Culture & Travel, September 26, p. 144, illus.
Rosof, Libby: 'Dancing with trees', Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof's Artblog, July 27
Newhall, Edith: 'ART', Weekend, The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 23
Newhall, Edith: 'Looking skyward for a spark', The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 17
Out of the Blue, exhibition brochure, published by Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA, March 4
Kenny, William: 'Rain or Shine, Artists Find Inspiration', Northeastern Times, March 2
2005
Johnson, Ken: 'Everywhere's the Same: Nowhere in Particular', The New York Times, June 3, p. 34
Foster, Hal: 'Six Notes on Vanishing', Vanishing Point, exhibition catalog, published by Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, p. 28
Isé, Claudine: 'Vanishing Points', Vanishing Point, exhibition catalog, published by Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, p. 14, 48-49, illus.
2004
Rattemeyer, Christian: 'Traversing the Backyard Horizon', for the birds, exhibition catalog, published by Joy Episalla, NYC, p. 2-6, illus.
2003
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation: 2003 Awards, catalog, published by The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, NYC, p. 22-23, illus.
Hagen, Susan: 'Creatures from Another Dimension', Philadelphia Citypaper, No. 961, October 16–23, p. 37, illus.
'Sculptural Prints', Philadelphia Citypaper, No. 956, September 11–18.
'The Print Center Presents Sculptural Prints Exhibition', City Surburban News, September 10–16.
2002
Lewis, Jonathan: 'Excavating the Obvious', City Newspaper, Vol. 34, No. 13, December 18, p.18, illus.
Horton, C. Sean: 'Joy Episalla', South End News, October 20, p. 14,17, illus.
McQuaid, Cate: 'Joy Episalla', The Boston Globe, October 18, p. C 21, illus.
Moore, Claire, 'Joy Episalla, removed', New York Arts, April, p. 95
Episalla, Joy: removed, exhibition catalog, published by Joy Episalla, NYC, p. 1, illus.
Griffin, Tim: 'Critics' picks', Time Out, March 21–28, p. 85, 89
The New Yorker, 'Joy Episalla', March 11, p. 17
2001
Rubin, David: 'Chelsea Rising', Chelsea Rising, exhibition catalog, published by Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, March 3–June 9, p. 9, illus.
Rose, Joshua: 'Object Lessons', Phoenix New Times, March 22–28, p. 68, illus.
Moore, Frank: Joy Episalla, The Physical Photograph, exhibition catalog, published by the Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, February 17 – June 10, p. 4-7, illus.
2000
Foster, Richard: 'Episalla's Tower of Babel', South End News, Vol. 21, No.39, October 19, p. 15, illus.
Hammond, Harmony: Lesbian Art in America, A Contemporary History, First edition, Rizzoli International
Publications,Inc., pp. 76, 77, 176, 195n193, 199n299, illus.
Vaughan, R.M.: 'Joy Episalla, Recent Work', eye, March 16, p. 36, illus.
Cunningham, Michael: 'Joy Episalla, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace', published by Mercer Union, ON, March 2–April 8, illus.
MacKay, Gillian: 'Joy Episalla', The Globe and Mail, March 11, p. R 12, illus.
XTRA!, March 9, p. 31, illus.
Arning, Bill: 'Joy Episalla at Debs & Co.', Art In America, March, p. 129,130, illus.
1999
The New Yorker, 'Joy Episalla', October 4, p. 22
Cunningham, Michael: 'The Transfiguration of the Commonplace', Joy Episalla, inside/out, exhibition catalog, published by Debs & Co., NYC, p. 10, 14, illus.
Nochlin, Linda: 'Joy Episalla: The Photograph Unbound', Joy Episalla, inside/out, exhibition catalog, published by Debs & Co., NYC, p. 2, 4, 6, illus.
1998
Skin Deep, exhibition catalog, published by 123 Watts Gallery, NYC, illus.
wallpaper #1, edition of 100 rolls of silkscreen wallpaper, published by Debs & Co., NYC
1997
Levin, Kim: 'Voice Choices', Village Voice, July 15
Cunningham, Michael: 'Joy Episalla', exhibition catalog, published by Neue Galerie, Hannover, DE, illus.
1996
Lespress, ausgabe 10, 'Joy Episalla', jahrgang 2, Frankfurt, Germany, Oktober
Third Text, 'Interference', Number 34, Spring, illus.
Hannoveicche Allgemeine Leitung, 'Joy Episalla', February 29, Hannover, DE
Women's Art Magazine, 'interference', London, January–February, illus.
1995
Time Out/London, 'interference', November 15–22, illus.
Craddock, Sacha: 'interference', The Times, October, London
fruit x-x-x, 'Witness: An Exquisite Corpse', Summer, illus.
1994
Silence = death, Kunst und AIDS in New York, Katalog: Hannoversch AIDS .Hilfe e.V., DE, illus.
1989
Storefront for Art and Architecture, brochure, 'Post-Consumerism: Part II–Designs and Ideas for the Waste Stream', illus.
Public Collections
Victoria & Albert Museum, London UK
Prudential Insurance
• Founding member of fierce pussy Public Art Collective, 1991-present
• Member of JC2