Born Tacoma, Washington
Education: B.A. Honors College, University of Oregon, 1964
l'Institut d'art et d'archaeologie, 1963
Columbia University (Studied with Meyer Schapiro), 1965
New York Studio School, 1966
New York Studio School (Studied with Alex Katz and Phillip Guston), 1967
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
 

ART | RESUME | STATEMENT | CONTACT

SOLO SHOWS

2004Joy Walker  Inside the Frame  paintings, 55 Mercer, New York
2004Joy Walker  New Paintings,  La Guardia Community College, Queens, NY
2003Chardin’s cat visits Soutine’s studio, paintings, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York
2003Minds Eye  photodrawings, Gallery Onetwentyeight,  New York
2001"Works on Paper" Brooklyn, New York
2001Cannon Beach Rocks Cannon Beach Best Western at Tolovana, Oregon
2001Large Watercolors from 1974  55 Mercer, New York
2000life is but a dream paintings  55 Mercer, New York
1999True Love  Edward Day Gallery  Toronto, Canada
1998True Love Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1998True Love  Discursive paintings, 55 Mercer, New York
1997Daffodil Girl drawings, 55 Mercer, New York
1996Peinture sur Acier Maison Des Arts, Laval, Quebec
1996Thinking of You 55 Mercer, NYC
19951970-1995 25 Years 55 Mercer, New York
1994Abstract Lessons 55 Mercer, New York
1993Drawing the World 55 Mercer, New York
1992Mechanics of the Universe Paintings, 55 Mercer, New York
1991Metal Orgy  55 Mercer, New York
1989Metal Paintings 198789  55 Mercer, New York
1989Metaphors  55 Mercer, New York
1988Metal Paintings  eat Restaurant, New York
1983Endless Pieces  Fashion Moda, South Bronx, New York
1983Recent Wall Pieces  Andre Zarre Gallery, New York
1982Artcore, Vancouver, British Columbia
1981Congruence  Andre Zarre Gallery, New York
1980P.S.I. Room Installation, Long Island City, New York
1980Southern Art Gallery, Room Installation, Lethbridge, Alberta
1980Glenmore Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1990Retakes  Print and Drawing Council of Canada, Toronto, ; Joy Walker co-curator
1990Painted Metal City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ; co-curated by Joy Walker
1990Alumni Exhibition  NY Studio School, New York
1989Show Your Metal  Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York
Co-sponsored by Organization of Independent Artists; co-curated by Joy Walker
198912 Artists Fax Drawings from New York to Yugoslavia and Yugoslavia
to New York Multi Media Arts Gallery, New York and Maribor, Yugoslavia
Co-curated by Joy Walker
1988Face the Fax: Drawings Sent by Phone  AMMO, Brooklyn and ARC,
Toronto, Canada   Organized by Joy Walker
1988Artistic Mile  Park Slope, Brooklyn
1985Park Slope Artists  Brooklyn Museum Community Gallery, Brooklyn
1985,86,88Open Studios and Picnic House, Prospect Park, Park Slope
Artists Council,   Brooklyn; Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn
1984Art in the Bush Loft 7, Bush Terminal, Park Slope Artists Council, Brooklyn
1983Fashion Moda, South Bronx and Manhattan, New York
1982Made in New York  Andre Zarre Gallery, New York
1980Toronto-Montreal Exchange Show, ACT Galleryand Powerhouse Gallery,
1980New York Painters, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
1979Los Angeles Toronto Exchange Drawing Show, LAICA-ACT Galleries, curator Joy Walker
1979Four Painters: Walker, McNealy, Hill, Davidson, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1978Canadian Society for Water Colors, Windsor and Sarnia, Ontario
1978Banff Center for the Fine Arts, Banff, Alberta
1977Centre Culturel, Paris, France
1977Painting Now  Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
1977Terre des Hommes (Olympic Exposition), Montreal, Quebec
1976Canada House, London, England
1976Abstractions  Stratford, Ontario
1975A Response to the Environment  Rutgers University, New Jersey
1980Three site specific installations, Glendon Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1979How a wall makes a room  ACT Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1979Ceiling piece, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire
1978Andre Zarre Gallery, New York
1977Andre Zarre Gallery, New York
1977Morris Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1977Laurentian University, Ontario
1963Sorbonne, Paris
1976Morris Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1974Morris Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1973Morris Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1973Staten Island Community College, New York
1973Harvard University, Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1972Morris Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1972Albert Campbell Library, Scarborough, Ontario
1971University of Toronto, Hart House Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1970University of Toronto, EJ Building, Toronto, Ontario
1970Dartmouth College, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hanover, New Hampshire

GROUP SHOWS (over 80 shows; partial list)
2004Tunnel of Love, Holland Tunnel, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
2003Peace, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
2003Horti-Culture, James Baird Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada
2003macht vegleichnar New York Cross-cut  Paradigma, Linz, Austria
2001Two watercolors destroyed in the attack on the Twin Towers, 9/11/01, NYC
2001For Love or Money  Dieu Donne Paper Mill Benefit, NYC
2001Fetishistic  Gallery 128, NYC
2000Skylite Show  online show on newyorkartworld.com
2000Galaxy 128  Gallery 128, NYC
2000Yaddo Centennial Arts Festival, Yaddo Artists Open Studio, NYC
2000Celebrating Yaddo Artists  Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn,NY
2000ABC Corporate Gallery, NYC
2000local papers  Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn NY
1997-1999Drawings were available at Pierogi 2000 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
1999Creative Center Faculty Show National Arts Club at Gramercy Park, NYC
1999Raw Seeing  New York Studio School, NYC
1999Universal Communicativity  Gallery 128, NYC
1998The Inventive Edge:  Three Painters Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ
1998Friends  55 Mercer, NYC
1998Freak of Nature  Gallery 128, NYC
1998Art Heals the Spirit  Bristol-Myers Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ
199850:50  Gallery 128, NYC
1997Broome Street Gallery Holiday Invitational Exhibition, NYC
1997Under the Sun Viridian Gallery, NYC
1997Tabula Rasa Gallery 128, NYC
1997The Pink Show 55 Mercer, NYC, curated by Judy Russsell
1994Poetic/Heroic Tribeca 148 Gallery, NYC, curated by Michael Walls
1994Who am I? Who are you? Portraits at Rusk, NYU Medical Center, NYC
1994Friends 55 Mercer Gallery, NYC
199455 Mercer Summer Members Show, NYC
1994Exuberant 80s Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
1993Sheffield Lake 93, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queens University, Canada
1993Spring Group Show White Bird Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR
1993The Shape Show, curated by Fran Kornfeld, Brookwood Child Care Center, Brooklyn
1992The First Decade 196474 Works on Paper, curated by Peter Agostini, NY Studio School
1991Geometric Abstraction Masked Media City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ
1991Members Drawing Show 55 Mercer St. Gallery, New York

COLLECTIONS (partial list)

Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
JP Morgan
Edward Albee
York University, Toronto
Department of External Affairs, Ottawa
Reed Paper Company, Toronto,
Crown Life, Toronto
Continental Illinois, Toronto
Maclean-Hunter, Toronto
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
Rambach Collection, New York
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Canada
University of Toronto, Canada
Citibank, New York