b. 1976
lives and works in San Antonio, TX
EDUCATION
2001 M.F.A.; University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI
2000 M.A in Art; University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI
1998 B.F.A with Honors and High Distinction; University of Iowa-Iowa City, IA
1996 Universidad Nacional, Heredia (study abroad program), Costa Rica
Selected Solo Exhibitions and Two-Person Exhibitions
2021
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Wait For It, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Beloit College, Beloit, WI
2020
Inside the Spider's Body, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2019
Teardowns, Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, TX
2018
Dig Three Tunnels, Testsite, Austin, TX
2016
A Soft Opening, David Shelton Gallery, Houston, TX
Dog Hospital, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2015
Sites of Transformation, She Works Flexible, Houston, TX
The Moving Image Fair, represented by David Shelton Gallery, NY, NY
2013
Natural History, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2010
Act Natural, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
2008
Cling to Me, Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, curated by Hamlett Dobbins
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
Labor: Motherhood and Art, curated by Marisa Sage, New Mexico State University Art Museum
State of the Art 2020, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
2019
Suffering From Realness, MASSMoCA, curated by Denise Markonish North Adams, MA (catalog)
Tell Us Plainly What You Mean, Aquarius Studios, Brooklyn, NY
PostMadison, Arts and Literature Laboratory, Madison, WI
2018
Unbounded, Central Features Contemporary, Albuquerque, NM
Landscapes, Portraits and Still Lifes, Dorf Gallery, Austin, TX
2017
SET-An ongoing program of video screenings accompanied by live musical and sound performances
Museo de Arte Moderno Medellin, Medellin, Colombia
Lugar a Dudes, Cali, Colombia
2016
Digits, Context, Art Fair, NY, NY, curated by Regine Basha
Reclaimed by Nature, Blue Star Museum of Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX, curated by Claudia Arozqueta
SET-An ongoing program of video screenings accompanied by live musical and sound performances
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana / Unidad Lerma, Mexico
Artpace, San Antonio, TX
2015
Name It by Trying to Name It, The Drawing Center, NY, NY
Narrative Axis, Blue Star Contemporary Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
2014
Open Sessions 2, The Drawing Center, NY, NY
Crossing the Line, Centro Cultural Border, Mexico City, Mexico
Parallel Myths, David Shelton Gallery, Houston, TX
Invasive Species: Landscapes by Justin Boyd, Adriana Corral, and Joey Fauerso, Artpace, San Antonio, TX
Miami Project, Represented by David Shelton Gallery, Miami, FL
The Great Poor Farm Experiment, Poor Farm, Manawa, WI
2013
Bite Like a Kitty, CAM perennial, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, curated by Bill Arning San Antonio, TX
2012
The Mobile Archive, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, an exhibition featuring a library of videos initiated in 2007 by the Israeli Center for Digital Art including videos from contemporary artists around the world. The Mobile Archive is currently traveling internationally with an emphasis on the Balkan, Middle Eastern, and European regions. International curated exhibition
Selected Bibliography
2019
Rainer Unruh, Joey Fauerso, BE Magazine #26, 2019
Denise Markonish, Suffering From Realness, Prestel/Delmonico, 2019
Barbara Purcell, At Blue Star Contemporary, Reconstructed from the Deconstructed, Sight Lines, November, 7th, 2019
Debra Martin, Fall Shows Explore Creation, Destruction at Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio Express News, October 14th, 2019
2018
Annelyse Gelman, Dig Three Tunnels with Joey Fauerso and Neil Fauerso, Conflict of Interest, February 23rd, 2018
2017
Nancy Zastudil, Texas Studio Joey Fauerso, Arts and Culture Texas, September 22, 2017
2016
Betsy Huete, Joey Fauerso at David Shelton Gallery, Glasstire, November 11th, 2016
Wendy Weil Atwell, When Reduction Becomes Abundance, The Rivard Report, October 15th, 2016
2015
David Rubin, ‘Joey Fauerso’s Improvisational Theater’ Glasstire, October, 19th, 2015
Jasmina Wellinghoff, ‘Art Speaks to the Human Experience’, San Antonio Woman, July’August 2015
2014
Seth Orion Schwaiger, “Invasive Species: Landscape”, Arts and Culture Magazine (online), October 9th, 2014
2012
Geoff Smith, “Joey Fauerso at David Shelton Gallery”, Arts and Culture Magazine Texas, October, 2012
Kory Rogers, “To Become Day”, exhibition catalog essay, Villa Terrace Museum
Chad Dawkins, “The Current of Drama”, exhibition catalog essay, Southwest School of Art
2011
Nancy Wozny, “I’m Your Puppet”, CultureMap, July 29, 2011
Margaret Meehan, “Joey Fauerso at Box 13”, Glasstire, July 7th, 2011
2010
Kelly Reeves, “Joey Fauerso Stole My Heart”, Gapers Block (http://gapersblock.com), September 20th, 2010
Pedro Valez and Erik Wenzel, “Opening Weekend Review”, Chicago Art Review (http://chicagoartreview.com)
Abraham Ritchie, “Beyond the Funny”, Artslant (http://www.artslant.com), October 4th, 2010
Kate Green, “This is All Real”, Artlies, summer 2010
Anjali Gupta, “Fields and Monuments” exhibition catalog essay, Texas A&M International University
Wendy Atwell, “One For All”, Might Be Good, Issue #144, March 26, 2010
Michael Jay McClure, Exotic Matter, exhibition catalog essay
2008
Victoria Cross, “Pleinarism”, Iceland Review, November 29, 2008
Hamlett Dobbins, Cling to Me, exhibition catalog, Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
2007
David Pagel, High 5: Emerging Art in America, exhibition catalog, CW Network Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Kelly Baum, “The Sirens’ Song”, Exhibition Catalog , ArtHouse, Austin, TX
Grants/Awards/Residencies
2021
The Corporation of Yaddo residency
Beloit College Victor Ferrall Artist in Residence
Interlude Residency
2019
MUM Art Department Resident Artist
2018
Skaftfell Artist Residency, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2017
Künstlerhaus Bethanien Residency, Berlin, Germany
2014
REP Grant, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2013-2015
Open Sessions, The Drawing Center, NY, NY
2011
Serie Project Residency, Austin, TX
2010
Hotel Pupik, International Artists in Residence Grant, Schrattenberg, Austria
2009
Korpulfsstadir Residency, Association of Icelandic Residencies, Reykjavik, Iceland
2007
San Antonio Artist Foundation Grant
2005
Golden Foundation Individual Artist Grant
Artpace Travel Grant
Dallas Museum of Art Kimberough Fund Grant
Roswell Artist in Residence
Ucross Foundation Residency
Lectures/Talks
2020
Blanton Museum of Art (online), Austin, TX
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
2019
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
TASA Conference, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
2018
University of Houston, Houston, TX
2017
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Blue Star Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
Artpace, San Antonio, TX
2014
Open Sessions, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2013
Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Ripon College, Ripon, WI
2012
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
2011
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
“Open Engagement”, featured panelist, Portland State University, Portland, OR
2010
Parsons University, Paris, France
Hotel Pupik, international artists in residence grant, Schrattenberg, Austria
Trinity University, San Antonio, TX