About the Artist:
Joan Backes lives and works in Massachusetts and New York
Recent Press: Johnathan Goodman of Artcritical.com reviews Nature Interrupted a group show Curated by Elga Wimmer featuring works by Joan Backes at the Chelsea Art Museum, NYC
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Education:
MFA, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Selected Honors and Awards
Brown University Creative Arts Council Faculty Award, 2008
Embassy of the US Iceland, 2006
Fulbright Hays Grant, 2003
Ragdale Foundation, 2000,1999, 1998
Senior Fulbright Scholar Award, 1994-95
National Endowment for the Arts/KS Art Com., 1992
Yellowstone Association for Natural Science, History, and Education Grant. Yellowstone National Park, 1992
American-Scandinavian Foundation Award, 1991
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2008 Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2008 LA Contemporary, Los Angeles, California
2007 Gallery of the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn
2007 University, Bangkok, Thailand. Brochure
2007 Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2007 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, Halifax, NS, Canada
2006 SAFN Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland. Brochure
2005 Rauma Art Museum, Rauma, Finland. Catalogue
2004 Wright Museum of Art, Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin. Catalogue
2003 Hafnarborg Institute of Culture and Fine Art, Iceland. Catalogue
2002 Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
2001 Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2000 Braitmayer Art Center, Marion, Massachusetts
1999 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1998 Hafnarborg, Institute of Culture and Fine Art, Iceland. Brochure
1997 Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Brochure
1996 Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile. Catalogue
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 Nature Interrupted, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, New York. Brochure
2007 Faculty Exhibition, Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
2006 Nature Interrupted, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts. Brochure
2006 drawing _ drawing 2, The Foundry, London Biennial, London, England
2006 Ragdale Anniversary, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois
2005 Summarize, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2004 A Forest Somewhere, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2004 Contemporary Drawing, U. of Nebraska Galleries, Lincoln, Nebraska
2004 Hands to Work, Mind to God, Borusan Art Museum/Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey (2003-04)
2003 Artists and the Cultivated Landscape, Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
2002 Natural Selections: New England Artists Interpret Nature, Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island
2002 Art Educates the World, Exhibition to benefit the Fulbright Legacy Fund, Sothebys, New York, New York
2001 Artists Alumni, Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
2000 Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
2000 Drawing and Painting, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
1999 Landscape, University Art Gallery, UMass Dartmouth, Dartmouth, Massachusetts
1998 Libertad, Diversidad, Pluralismo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
1997 Waking to the World, Fulbright Anniversary Exhibition, Meridian International Center, Washington, D.C. Catalogue
1996 a:e,iuo, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1996 Just Add Water: Artists and the Aqueous World, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin. Catalogue
1995 Total Solar Eclipse-A Collaboration, Boston Museum of Science, Boston, Massachusetts
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