Joell Baxter is a sculptor/drawer/printmaker who was born in Washington DC, raised in Evanston, Il, and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. Her recent work conflates sculpture, arts and crafts, drawing, and design, using cyclic systems of color and form to explore the relationship between illusion and object. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in 2000 from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she was awarded a University Fellowship, and has recently exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; International Print Center, New York, NY; Regina Rex, Queens, NY; and the Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX. She was a 2011 participant in the Artist in the Marketplace program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and in 2011/2012 she was in residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Workspace Program. She is currently completing a Special Editions Residency at the Lower Eastside Printshop, New York, NY.


EDUCATION

MFA, Studio Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2000
BFA, Painting, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2013
Editions '13, Lower Eastside Printshop, New York, NY (catalog)

2012
New Prints 2012/ Summer, International Print Center New York, New York, NY, selected by Shahzia Sikander
Lower Manahattan Cultural Council Open Studio Weekend, 125 Maiden Lane, NY, NY
Textility, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ, curated by Mary Birmingham and Joanne Mattera (catalog)
Published by the Artist, International Print Center New York, New York, NY

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
Try2, Benefit Auction for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY
New Prints 2010, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas, Austin (traveling from IPCNY)
An Exchange with Sol Lewitt, Cabinet Magazine Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Regine Basha (catalog)

2010
Benefit Exhibition and Auction, International Print Center New York, New York, NY
Soapbox II, Benefit Auction for The Laundromat Project, Collette Blanchard Gallery, New York, NY
New Prints 2010/Autumn, International Print Center New York, New York, NY
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

2012
Special Editions Residency, Lower Eastside Printshop, New York, NY

2011
Visiting Artist, Advanced Media Studio, New York University (through LMCC)
Workspace Residency Program, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), New York, NY
Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Program, 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

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.