CUNY

Faculty Member, Art: Electronic Design & Multimedia

Adjunct lecturer

The City College of New York

About

Joy Garnett is a painter and 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 projects, documented with photographs and archived online, examine the intersections of our digital and material worlds. Her work is currently on view in The Tool at Hand at the Milwaukee Art Museum (Dec 8 2011-Apr 1 2012). Notable past exhibitions include That Was Then..This Is Now, MoMA P.S.1, and Image War, Whitney Museum of American Art. Garnett is a recipient of a grant from Anonymous Was a Woman. She is represented by Winkleman Gallery, NY.


Garnett has served as Arts Editor for the scholarly journal Cultural Politics (Duke University Press) since 2005. Her writings on art, media, free culture, and the theories of Paul Virilio have been published in numerous books and journals, including Virilio Now (Polity 2011); Harper's; Journal of Visual Culture; Theory, Culture & Society; Artnet Magazine; and in the 25th anniversary issue of M/E/A/N/I/N/G (2012).

She is currently working on 'The Bee Kingdom', a visual project and family memoir about her grandfather, Ahmed Zaky Abushady, poet, publisher and beekeeper of Egypt's Ancien Regime.

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