Joanie Ellen
Joanie Ellen is a Los Angeles based installation artist and brand new Toronto transplant. She makes sculpture, furniture, and shelters often within video and sound installations. Woodworking, building and welding are informed by sense memory, physical comedy, primal regression and repetition techniques. Questions of sexuality and identity engage directly with feminist discourse. Ellen’s recent work has been referred to as theater without actors, where viewer is protagonist. It is sculpture as performance, and performance displaced in video. The installations pit giving birth, motherhood, reproduction, and the female body against the minimalist notion of taking the artist out. She subverts cultural strategies that work to objectify women and invites the viewer to participate in these critical fictions.
CV
Born in New York, NY
Lived and worked in Los Angeles, CA
Relocated to Toronto, Ontario
EDUCATION
MFA California State Long Beach, School of Art (2019)
BA McGill University, Theater & Anthropology
SOLO SHOWS
2019 …like maddened…raving away on its own, part 2, Hullmark Gallery, Toronto
2019 …like maddened…raving away on its own, part 2, Werby Gallery, Long Beach, video
2018 …like maddened…raving away on its own part1, Werby Gallery, Long Beach, video 1, video 2, video 3
2017 Protest Panties with Fanny Packs, Chora Gallery, Long Beach, video
2016 Confidence of Youth, Werby Gallery, Long Beach
2016 Stomach Song 2: Old Broad, Chora Gallery, Long Beach
2015 I Am Dirty-You Are Dirty: Daybeds for Soap in the Meisner Technique, GLAMFA, Werby Gallery, Long Beach, video
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 International Art for Peace Festival, Artscape Daniel’s Spectrum, Toronto
2019 …like maddened, parts 1 & 2, University Art Museum Insights Show, Long Beach
2017 Protest Panties with Fanny Packs II, University Art Museum Insights Show, Long Beach
2016 Protest Panties with Fanny Packs, Millennium Museum, Sheffield, UK
2016 Protest Panties with Fanny Packs, Bloc Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2016 Untitled, Group Sculpture Show, Gatov Gallery, Long Beach
2015 Untitled, Group Fiber Show, Gatov Gallery, Long Beach
2015 Creatures of the Wind, University Art Museum Insights Show, Long Beach
2015 Stowaways, Long Beach Art Fair
AWARDS
2019 Distinguished Achievement in Creative Activity Award, Cal State Long Beach, School of Art
2018 Marilyn Werby Endowed Scholarship, Cal State Long Beach School of Art
Born in New York, NY
Lived and worked in Los Angeles, CA
Relocated to Toronto, Ontario
EDUCATION
MFA California State Long Beach, School of Art (2019)
BA McGill University, Theater & Anthropology
SOLO SHOWS
2019 …like maddened…raving away on its own, part 2, Hullmark Gallery, Toronto
2019 …like maddened…raving away on its own, part 2, Werby Gallery, Long Beach, video
2018 …like maddened…raving away on its own part1, Werby Gallery, Long Beach, video 1, video 2, video 3
2017 Protest Panties with Fanny Packs, Chora Gallery, Long Beach, video
2016 Confidence of Youth, Werby Gallery, Long Beach
2016 Stomach Song 2: Old Broad, Chora Gallery, Long Beach
2015 I Am Dirty-You Are Dirty: Daybeds for Soap in the Meisner Technique, GLAMFA, Werby Gallery, Long Beach, video
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 International Art for Peace Festival, Artscape Daniel’s Spectrum, Toronto
2019 …like maddened, parts 1 & 2, University Art Museum Insights Show, Long Beach
2017 Protest Panties with Fanny Packs II, University Art Museum Insights Show, Long Beach
2016 Protest Panties with Fanny Packs, Millennium Museum, Sheffield, UK
2016 Protest Panties with Fanny Packs, Bloc Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2016 Untitled, Group Sculpture Show, Gatov Gallery, Long Beach
2015 Untitled, Group Fiber Show, Gatov Gallery, Long Beach
2015 Creatures of the Wind, University Art Museum Insights Show, Long Beach
2015 Stowaways, Long Beach Art Fair
AWARDS
2019 Distinguished Achievement in Creative Activity Award, Cal State Long Beach, School of Art
2018 Marilyn Werby Endowed Scholarship, Cal State Long Beach School of Art