Joseph M. Wardwell
Education
1999 Master of Fine Arts, Painting, Boston University, Boston, MA
1996 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1996 Bachelor of Arts, Art History, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1995 Painting Fellow, Yale Norfolk Summer School of Painting and Music,
Norfolk, CT
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Frosch and Portmann, upcoming, New York, NY
2018 LaMontagne Gallery, Everyone’s Moved off to One Side, Boston, MA
2017 - 2022 MASS MoCA, Hello America: 40 Hits from the 50 States, North
Adams, MA
2016 McInnich Gallery, Soon I will be President, Southern New Hampshire
University, Hooksett, NH
2015 Giampietro Gallery, Down from Day One, New Haven, CT
2014 LaMontagne Gallery, Party Over, Boston, MA
2013 Prole Drift Gallery, As We Go Up We Go Down, Seattle, WA
2012 LaMontagne Gallery, Big Disgrace, Boston, MA
2011 Heskin Contemporary, Untied We Stand, New York, NY
2009 LaMontagne Gallery, Die Young, Boston, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 Freight and Volume Gallery, Summer of Love, New York, NY
2018 LaMontagne Gallery, Out of Our Closet, Boston MA
2017 Miller Yezserski gallery, Loud and Clear, Boston, MA
2015 Zevitas Marcus Gallery, This is Boston Not L.A., Culver City, CA
2015 The Weston Art Gallery in the Aronoff Center for the Arts, Gimmie,
Gimmie, Gimmie, Curated by Todd Pavlisko, Cincinnati, OH
2015 The Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Arcadia: Thoughts on the
Contemporary Pastoral, Curated by Steve Locke, Boston, MA
2014 DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Language as Inspiration: Works
from deCordova’s Collection, Lincoln, MA
2014 Whitespace, The New West, Ogden, UT
2013 San Pietro in Atrio, Boston – Como, Como, Italy
2012 Gallery Rafacz, Lake Effect / Nor’ Easter Part I, Chicago, IL
2012 DeCordova Museum, The 2012 deCordova Biennial, Lincoln, MA
2011 New Art Center, We Still See the Black, Newton, MA
2010 Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art, Georgia Southern University,
Behind the Image, Southborough, GA
2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Contemporary Outlooks: Seeing Songs, curator
William Stover, Boston, MA
Recent Site Specific Installations and Public Art
2020 Boston Public Library, Dudley Branch, Boston, MA
2019 citizenM Hotels, North Station citizenM, Boston, MA
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2018 Facebook Corporation, Artist in Residence Program, Cambridge Offices,
Cambridge, MA
2017 MASSMoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art),
commissioned mural for the inauguration of Building 6 expansion, North
Adams, MA
2015 Aronoff Center for the Arts, site specific installation in the lobby, Cincinati,
OH
Bibliography
2018 McQuaid, Cate, “Something to Sing about in “Everyone Has Moved off to
One Side’ ” The Boston Globe, 10/3/2018
2017 Cook, Greg, “Our Guide to the Art inside MASSMoCA’s Gigantic New
Building 6”, WBUR, radio review, 5/26/2017
2017 LaDuke, Sarah, “Audio Tour of MASSMoCA’s Building 6: Opening Day
Celebration”, WMAC, radio review, 5/26/2017
2014 McQuaid, Cate, “No Shorthand for Wardwell’s Feisty Effects” The Boston
Globe, 7/1/2014
2013 Ayer, Robert, “Words and Images Conjure New Meaning in Joe
Wardwell’s Paintings,” The Seattle Times, 4/26/2013
2012 New American Paintings, Northeast Issue, Curator Dina Dietsch, Number
98, pp. 136-139
2012 McQuaid, Cate, “Recycling Things, History into Stories,” The Boston
Globe, 3/24/2012
2012 Cook, Greg, “Regional Pride: The DeCordova Biennial Roots for the Home
Team,” The Boston Phoenix, 1/31/2012
2012 Miller, Francine, “At the DeCordova Biennial: Dreams of Disneyland,” Art
in America Online Review, 1/26/2011
2010 Garza, Evan J. “In the Studio: Joe Wardwell,” New American Paintings
Blog 8/27/2010
2009 McQuaid, Cate, “the Best Exhibitions of the Year,” The Boston Globe,
12/30/2009
Academic Appointments
2014- 2020 Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing, Brandeis University,
Waltham, MA
2007-2014 Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing, Brandeis University,
Waltham, MA
2005-2007 Assistant Professor (OTS), Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2001-2005 Artist-in-Residence, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Public and Corporate Collections
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
Southern New Hampshire University, Hooksett, NH
CitizenM Hotels, Cambridge, MA
Facebook Corporation, Cambridge Offices, Cambridge, MA