USA Projects

Joy Garnett is a painter and social media artist who lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her paintings, based on found images of explosive events, locate instances of the apocalyptic sublime in mass media culture. Her social media performances examine the intersections of our digital and material worlds. Garnett's work was recently on view at the Milwaukee Art Museum in 'The Tool at Hand,' which will travel in 2013 to museums in Portland Oregon, Philadelphia and Houston. Notable past exhibitions include 'That Was Then..This Is Now, 'MoMA P.S.1, and 'Image War,' Whitney Museum of American Art. She is a recipient of a grant from Anonymous Was a Woman. Garnett is represented by Winkleman Gallery, NY.   

Garnett has served since 2005 as the Arts Editor for the scholarly journal Cultural Politics, published by Duke University Press. Her writings on art, media and culture can be found in a variety of publications, including Virilio Now; Harper's; Journal of Visual Culture; Theory, Culture & Society; Artnet; M/E/A/N/I/N/G; and her blog, NEWSgrist.com.

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For USA Projects, Garnett will be focusing on her ongoing work, 'The Bee Kingdom', an experimental culinary hub, family memoir and visual archive that focuses on her grandfather, A.Z. Abushady, poet, publisher and bee scientist of Egypt's Old Regime. The Bee Kingdom explores the intersections of food, urbanism, science and art. ~ est. 2012 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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Portrait photo courtesy of the artist.