Joy Garnett studied painting at L'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and received her MFA from The City College of New York. She appropriates news images from the Internet and re-invents them as paintings. Her subject is both the content of these found images and the digital image itself as cultural artifact in an Internet-driven culture. She is represented by Winkleman Gallery, New York City.
Garnett's work is currently on view at P.S.1/MoMA in the exhibition That Was Then...This Is Now, through September 22, 2008.
Garnett's recent solo exhibitions include New Paintings at Winkleman Gallery, NY (2008), Scoundrel Time at Iona College Art Gallery, New Rochelle, NY (2008), and Strange Weather at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC (2007). Notable past exhibitions include Image War, organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY (2006), When Artists Say We, Artists Space, NY (2006), Visionary Anatomies, Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition (2004-2007), and Without Fear or Reproach , De Witte Zaal, Ghent, Belgium (2003). She has curated two exhibitions: Out of the Blue, co-organized with Joy Episalla and Amy Lipton at the Abington Art Center, PA (2006), and Night Vision, which premiered at Illinois State University Galleries and traveled to White Columns, NY (2002).
Garnett's work has appeared in numerous publications including Harper's, Cabinet, and Perspecta: The Yale School of Architecture Journal. She has received grants from the Anonymous Was a Woman foundation, and the Wellcome Trust (UK), and currently serves as Arts Editor for the scholarly journal Cultural Politics.
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