email: joellbxt@gmail.com
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Joell Baxter is a Brooklyn-based artist and teaching-artist. She has been awarded residencies at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; the Lower East Side Printshop; and the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program. Exhibitions include Field Projects, New York, NY; the Marsh Gallery at Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN; and the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, CA. In 2024 she will complete a permanent commission as part of NYC Department of Cultural Affairs’ Public Art for Public Schools, as well as a solo exhibition at Kentler International Drawing Center in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Baxter is also a visual arts teaching artist in the New York City public schools through Partnership with Children, NYC. She holds an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 (upcoming)
Permanent Public Artwork, NYC Percent for Art and NYC SCA Public Art for Public Schools (September) Not Yet Titled, Kentler International Drawing Center, Brooklyn, NY (November)
2020
Floating Points, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA
2018
Joell Baxter, Indiana University Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN
2015
Cut Light / Open Late, Field Projects, New York, NY (with Stella Ebner)
2014
Coverer, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (brochure)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Seasonal Repression, Field Projects, New York, NY
Loose Threads, Blank Space Gallery, New York, NY (online viewing room)
2019
Pool Party, Field Projects at C24 Gallery, New York, NY
Transformed, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, New Jersey (catalog)
2017
Tie Up, Draw Down, The Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design, Asheville, North Carolina
Underlying System is Not Known, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, Il
2015
Fiber Optic, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY
Interwoven: Prints and Process, Maass Gallery, Purchase College, Purchase, NY
Making Strategies, Jack Geary, New York, NY
Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Open Studios, 20 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Created in Company, Convene, New York, NY
2013
Editions '13, Lower Eastside Printshop, New York, NY (catalog)
Published by the Artist, International Print Center New York, NY
2012
Textility, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ (catalog)
Published by the Artist, International Print Center New York, NY
Lower Manahattan Cultural Council Open Studio Weekend, 125 Maiden Lane, NY, NY
New Prints 2012/ Summer, International Print Center New York, NY, selected by Shahzia Sikander
2011
Bronx Calling: The First AIM Biennial, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (catalog)
Through the Warp, Regina Rex, Queens, NY
Keyed, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY
An Exchange with Sol Lewitt, Cabinet Magazine Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Regine Basha (catalog)
2010
New Prints 2010/Autumn, International Print Center New York, NY (Traveled to Visual Arts Center, University of Texas, Austin)
Paper Scope, Lower Eastside Printshop, New York, NY
2005
Into the Midst, Mixture Contemporary, Houston, TX, curated by Scott Wolniak
2003
Gilded Lily, 1R Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Stray Show 3, with 1R Gallery, Chicago, IL
Subtle, Not So Subtle, 1R Gallery, Chicago, IL, curated by Kirsten Stoltmann
2001
The Stray Show, with Suitable Gallery, Chicago, IL
Hedge, Suitable Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
2000
Redo, Standard Gallery, Chicago, IL
Off Site, Great Space, Chicago, IL
Libidinal, Contemporary Arts Council at TBA space, Chicago, IL, curated by Susan Sensemann (catalog)
The Good Show, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
1999
New Artists, Union League Club, Chicago, IL
The Perfect Sleeper, Embassy Suites Hotel, Chicago, IL
Cross Currents 2, Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow, Scotland (catalog)
1998
New Work, Arts Coalition Gallery, Champaign, IL (solo)
Cross Currents 1, I Space Gallery, Chicago, IL
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2014
Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Space Program, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Special Editions Residency, Lower Eastside Printshop, New York, NY
2011
Workspace Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), New York, NY
Artist in the Marketplace (AIM), The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
2000
University Fellowship for Graduate Study, University of Illinois at Chicago
1999
Navona Fellowship for Graduate Study, University of Illinois at Chicago
Visual Arts Scholaship, Union League Civic and Arts Foundation, Chicago, IL
1998
Mary C. McLellen Scholaship for Independant Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Allie D. Hughston-Enochs Scholarship in Art, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2017
Rosenberg, Tal. Western Exhibitions inaugurates a new space with an expansive show, Chicago Reader, January 18, 2017
Miller, Chris. Colors and Forms Delight in a Panoply of Styles, New City, January 27, 2017
2016
Artists to Artists Volume 2: 25 years of the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Patterson, Tom, Lesley Dill Installation and "Art on Paper" worth the trip, Winston Salem Journal, November 9 2014.
2013
Cullen, Deborah, Catalog Essay for Editions '13, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY.
2012
Birmingham, Mary and Mattera, Joanne. Catalog Essays for Textility, Visual Arts Center, Summit, New Jersey.
2011
Goings On About Town. Bronx Calling: The First AIM Biennial, The New Yorker, August 15, 2011, p.15.
Northcross, Wayne and Ruiz, Jose. Catalog essays for Bronx Calling: The First AIM Biennial, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York.
Basha, Regine. Catalog Essay for An Exchange with Sol Lewitt. Brooklyn, NY. Cabinet Books and Mass MoCA.
2000
Gitlen, Laurel. Redo at Standard Gallery, Ten by Ten, Vol. 1 no. 2, p. 47.
Sensemann, Susan. Catalog essay for Libidinal at TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL.
1998
Spector, Buzz. Catalog essay for Cross Currents at I space, Chicago, IL, and Mackintosh Museum of Art, Glasgow, Scotland.
EDUCATION
MFA, Studio Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2000
BFA, Painting, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998