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joy garnett

United States
new york, NY

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Joy Garnett's paintings are visceral investigations of scientific, documentary and journalistic photographs. She searches for source material online, in newspapers and on television; eventually it is the nature of a given kind of source material that will define a distinct project or series. Taken as a whole, the paintings invoke our complex relationship with mass media images, and our assumptions about their veracity and meaning...

Garnett studied at L'Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris and received her MFA from The City College of New York. Her paintings are exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad, and have been reproduced in numerous publications including Harper's, Perspecta, and Cabinet Magazine. She is a 2004 recipient of a grant from the Anonymous Was a Woman foundation, and currently serves as Arts Editor at Cultural Politics, an internationally refereed journal published by Berg, Oxford, UK.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
Strange Weather, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC

2004
Riot. Debs & Co., New York

2001
Rocket Science. Debs & Co., New York (catalogue)

1999
Buster-Jangle. Debs & Co., New York (artist’s multiple)

CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2006
Out of the Blue. Co-organized with Joy Episalla & Amy Lipton. Participating artists include Stephen Andrews, Robert Bordo, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Erik Hanson, Bill Jones, Zoe Leonard, Frank Moore, Andrea Polli, Hunter Reynolds, Austin Thomas, Bing Wright, Carrie Yamaoka. Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA (multiple/brochure)

2002-2003
Night Vision. Participating artists: Jordan Crandall, Christoph Draeger, Joy Garnett, Adam Hurwitz, Bill Jones + Ben Neill, John Klima, Joseph Nechvatal, Jonathan Podwil, The Radical Software Group. Originating: Illinois State University Galleries, Normal, IL; traveled to: White Columns, New York; 2003: University Art Gallery, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI (brochure; essay by Tim Griffin)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (2006)
Run For Your Lives! DiverseWorks, Houston, TX

Prevailing Climate. Sara Meltzer Galley, New York

Image War: Contesting Images of Political Conflict. Curated by Benjamin Godsill, Tina Gregory, Katy Rogers, and Susanne Sæther, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program (ISP). The Art Gallery of The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York (catalogue)

When Artists Say We. Curated by Andrea Geyer & Christian Rattemeyer. Artists Space, New York

Peace Tower for the Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night. A project by Mark di Suvero and Rirkrit Tiravanija. The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)

The Studio Visit. Exit Art, New York

Headlines. Curated by Mary Birmingham. Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ (catalogue)

Under Fire. Curated by Ryan Griffis. I Space Gallery, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, IL

Spectacles of the Real, The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Gallery, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in conjunction with OPENSOURCE Art, Champaign, IL

Visionary Anatomies. Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition; University of Delaware Museum (catalogue)

Creative Time’s Annual Benefit Auction, New York

SweetArt New York. Silent Auction to benefit the SweetArt Katrina Fund administered by the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans. Bohen Foundation, New York

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