USA Projects

Joan Fabian was born in Chicago and currently lives and works in San Antonio, Texas. She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for her BFA and received her MFA at the University of Texas at San Antonio.  A Fulbright Scholar to Pakistan, where she taught painting and graduate studies at the National College of Arts in Lahore. She has had exhibitions at the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Parsons School of Design in Paris, France, ARC Gallery in Chicago, Broadway Gallery, New York City and the Smithsonian International, Washington D.C. Fabian has completed two Dutch art residencies in Rotterdam and Delft where she lived in transitional and challenging neighborhoods not usually experienced by tourists, transforming her art into a community experience. Fabian received a Pollock Krasner Grant, Puffin Foundation Award, Austin Fairchild Grant, and was an Official State of Texas Artist Finalist in 2011. Art of Possibilities is licensing her designs to in marketing products and printed into fabric. In her paintings she uses color as a form of sound – projecting memories and experiences associated with the ones she chooses.