JOAN HALL

Mixed media wall sculpture with an emphasis on handmade paper, glass, and metal

 
 
 

BIOGRAPHY & RESUME

Joan Hall works in mixed media and large-scale sculptural installations with an emphasis on the materials of handmade paper, glass, and metal. Hall received her BFA at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio and her MFA at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She studied papermaking with Garner Tullis at the Institute of Experimental Printmaking in Santa Cruz, California. She is known for her innovative approaches to material and process.

The climate crisis, with an emphasis on plastic pollution, her passion for marine advocacy and experimentation with materials is core to her practice. She has always been drawn to the sea, its maritime history a love of sailing and her physical relationship to it as a source of inspiration throughout her career.

Hall’s work has been exhibited numerous solo and group shows in the US and abroad, including Germany, Denmark and Japan, the Netherlands and France. Her installation: The Invasion of Hull Cove, was included in the European Cultural Center’s Personal Structures exhibition during the 2019 Venice Biennale. Her most recent large scale installation Algae Bloom was at the Waterfire Arts Center’s exhibition Planet Earth: The Environment and Our Future, in Providence, RI.

 
 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2027 Art Museum at the University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, CT
2023 Take Another Road to a Better Place, The River School, Weston, MA
2022 Where Light Dances: On the Ocean and in My Memory, Childs Gallery, Boston
2019 Global Contamination: It’s All One Sea, Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park, and Museum, Hamilton, OH
2019 Hear the Ocean Sobbing, Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA
2019 Global Contamination: The Gulf Project, The Meadows Museum, Shreveport, LA
2018 Sea of Heartbreak, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
2014 The Gulf Project, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO
2013 Red Sky in Mourning, Perkinson Gallery, Milikin College, Decatur, IL
2013 Print Based Sculptures: Unchartered Waters, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, TX
2012 Marginal Waters, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2010 Your Existence is Not Unlike My Own, Silkeborg Art Center, Silkeborg, Denmark
2010 Joan Hall, Ivano Vitali, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX
2009 Joan Hall, Peter Marcus, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2007 From Whence We Came, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2005 All About Water, Perry Nicole Gallery, Memphis, TN
2003 Blue, Mitchell Museum of Art, Mt Vernon, IL
1999 Currents 79, Curator: Cornelia Homburg, St Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
1999 R. Duane Reed Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 R. Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1997 Rafts, University of Southern Colorado, Pueblo, CO
1996 Margaret Harwell Museum, Poplar Bluff, MO
1995 R. Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1995 Debris, Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO
1992 Elliot Smith Contemporary Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1989 Elliot Smith Contemporary Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1987 Bermuda Triangle Series, BZ Wagman, Gallery, St. Louis, MO
 
 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026 Pulp: The Fluid and the Concrete, Reeves House Visual Arts Center, Woodstock, GA
2026 Paper Transformed: Artists Exploring Colored Pulp, Wilson Museum at the Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT
2025 Growing the Network, The Waterfire Arts Center, Providence, RI
2025 IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair, New York, NY
2025 Pulp: The Fluid and the Concrete, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
2025 Making Waves II, Resa Blatman, Joan Hall, Karen Lee Sobol, Childs Gallery, Boston, MA
2024 PIVOT, Jamestown Art Center, Jamestown RI
2023 Amazing Nature, Art Center Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, Denmark
2023 IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair, New York, NY
2023 Approaching Water, coinciding with conference on Biological Stoichiometry, Constellation Studios, Lincoln, NE
2023 Book as Muse: Language & Image, Jamestown Arts Center, Jamestown, RI
2023 Baltimore Fine Art Print Fair, 1 of 2 artists invited to do an installation
2022 Undercurrents: Water + Human Impact, Concord Visual Arts Center, Concord, MA
2022 Planet Earth: The Environment and Our Future, WaterFire Arts Center, Providence, RI
2022 IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair, New York, NY
2021 What Stands Before Us: Art in Quarantine, Childs Gallery, Boston, MA
2020 Making Waves, Childs Gallery, Boston, MA
2020 A Conversation with Paper, GalleryFRITZ, Santa Fe, NM
2019 Personal Structures, Venice Biennial Satellite Exhibition, The Global Arts Affair Foundation, Venice, Italy
2019 IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair, New York, NY
2018 Imprint Two, National Biennial Print Invitational, VAM Gallery, Austin, TX
2017 CasaCor, Miami, FL
2016 Full Circle: Beck Whitehead and Pulparazzi, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
2016 By the Hand, Assemblage Exhibition Space, Lincoln, NE
2016 Blanc de Blanc, Jamestown Arts Center, Jamestown, RI
2016 St Louis Printmaking Now, The Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, MO
2016 Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
2014 Cut, Formed, Folded, Pressed Paper, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE
2014 Paper--Made, Jamestown Art Center, Jamestown, RI
2014 Translating Earth, Transforming Sea, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, AR
2014 Synechoche Magazine, Joan Hall’s work featured in Fall/Winter issue
2014 Critical Mass Portfolio Exhibition, CIEC Foundation, Betanzos, La Coruna, Spain
2013 Fabriano 1264: 750 Years of Western Paper, Exhibition at the Embassy of Italy, Washington, DC
2013 Paper Trails, Lambert St Louis, International Airport, St. Louis, MO
2012 Paper in Space, Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery University of Dallas, Irving, TX
2011 Plastic Pollution, Digital Exhibition, 5th Marine Debris Conference, Hawaii
2011 Sculptural and Artist Books, Melbourne, Australia
2011 Pushing Paper, Dominican University, River Forest, IL
2011 Regional Impressions, St Louis University, St. Louis, MO
2011 Prints + Multiples, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2011 TASMANIA 1:1000,000, Mapping the Island, Tasmanian Regional Arts Center
2010 What’s the Buzz on the Playground, Cedarhurst Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL
2008 Holland Paper Biennial, Rijswijk Museum and the CODA Museum Apeldoorn, NL
2008 Catching Light, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX
2008 The Embedded Image, Current Works in Handmade Paper, Craft Alliance, St Louis, MO
2007 There and Here, COCA, St. Louis, MO
2007 The Embedded Image, Current Works in Handmade Paper, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
2006 Solarplate Revolution, Hillwood Art Museum, Brookville, NY
2006 Line and Form, Long Island Arts League, Dix Hills, NY
2005 Inaugural Exhibition, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2004 Size Matters, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
2004 She Said, Susan Teller Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Roots and Crowns, Great Plains Arts Museum, Lincoln, NE
2004 Around the World and Back, Canzani Arts Center, CCAD, Columbus, OH
2002 Contemporary American Paper Artists, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2002 National Book and Paper Arts Biennial, Center for the Arts, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2002 Korean International Print Arts Invitational, Chang Won, Korea
2001 Land and Ecology, University of Southern Colorado, Pueblo, CO
2001 Invitational, Brookhaven College, Dallas, TX
2001 Digital: Printmaking Now, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2001 Paper Re-Visioned Invitational, Silkeborg Art Center, Silkeborg Bad, Denmark
2001 The Decades: 1940-1980, UNL Studio Arts Alumni, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
2000 Midlands 2000-Works on Paper, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
2000 Contemporary Prints Beyond Tradition, Layton Gallery, MIAD, Milwaukee, WI
1999 Big Impressions, Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
1999 Invitational, Cedarhurst Museum of Art, Mt. Vernon, IL
1999 16th National Print Invitational, University of Dallas, TX
1999 Paperworks, Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL
1999 Contemporary Paper, Evansville Museum of Art and Science, Evansville, IN
1998 Survey of Contemporary Paper Artists, Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, MI
1998 Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
1997 St. Louis: City Series, Curator: Donald Doe, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art Cedar Rapids, IA
1997 Site as Context, Steinberg Gallery of Art, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
1996 National Paper Arts Invitational, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH
1994 International Invitational, Museum Aemstelle, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
1994 Alternative Prints Invitational, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
1993 Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
1993 Big Prints, Haggar Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
1993 Invitational, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
1993 Exposition Collective, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
1992 Medium: Paper, Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
1992 Installation: Debris, University of Hawaii Art Gallery at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
1991 Paper Alternatives, Arvada Center, CO
1990 Paper Art, Nordjyllands Museum of Art, Aalborg, Denmark
1990 International Biennial of Paper Art, Leopold Hoesch Museum, Duren, Germany
1990 National Invitational, Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, WI
1988 Suwa Municipal Museum, Suwa, Japan
1988 Municipal Museum, Nanjing, China
1986 International Biennial of Paper Art, Leopold Hoesch Museum, Duren, Germany
1979 Six American Artists, Musee D’Art, Lyon, France
 

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

Senate office of Sheldon Whitehouse, Washington DC
Good Samaritan Regional Health Center, Mt Vernon, IL
Lambert Municipal Airport, St. Louis, MO
Mc Cormack Baron Salazar Corporate Headquarters, St Louis, MO
Goldfarb School of Nursing, Barnes-Jewish College, Washington University in St, Louis, MO
Cortex, St. Louis, MO
Trivers and Associates, St Louis, MO
Posinelli, Shelte and Welte, Kansas City, MO
Bank of America, St Louis, MO

 
 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, Denmark
RISD, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
MONA, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
St Louis Art Museum, St Louis, MO
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
Leopold-Hoesch Museum, Duren, Germany
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester University, Rochester, NY
Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, IN
Westin Hotel, St Louis, MO
Washington University School of Law, St Louis, MO
Champion Paper International, St Louis, MO
Evansville Museum of Art, Evansville, IN
Emerson Electric, St Louis, MO
Tricor Braun Industries, St. Louis, MO
Federal Reserve Bank, St. Louis, MO
Hilton Hotels, St. Louis, MO
TIAA/CREF Corporate Offices, St Louis, MO
Private Bank, St Louis, MO
The Federal Reserve Bank, St Louis, MO
Boeing, Saint Charles, MO
Hallmark Corporation, Kansas City, MO
US Bank, St Louis, MO
Five Star Banks, St Louis, MO
American Federation of Teachers, Washington DC
University of Dallas, Irving, TX
Municipal Museum, Suwa, Japan
Municipal Museum, Nanjing, China

 
 

GRANTS & AWARDS

2018 Newport Art Museum Award, Member’s Exhibition
2016 Newport Art Museum Award, Member’s Exhibition
2011 Faculty Research Grant, The Gulf Project, Washington University in St. Louis
2010 Exhibition Grant, Danish National Arts Council, DK
2008 Joseph V. Canzani Alumni Award of Excellence, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH
1999 Nancy and Kenneth Kransberg Purchase, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
1989 National Endowment for the Arts/M-AAA Individual Artist Grant
1989 Jeanne Bowman Ellenstein Purchase Award, Evansville Museum of Art, IL
1985 National Endowment for the Arts/M-AAA Individual Artist Grant
1978 Thomas P. Coleman Purchase Award, Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
 
 

EDUCATION

MFA University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 1978
Institute of Experimental Printmaking, (Studied with Garner Tullis), San Francisco, CA 1977
BFA Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH 1974

 

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