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
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