Joianne Bittle
Born 1975, Indiana.
Lives and works in New York City.
EDUCATION
| 1998-1999 | Assistantship, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy |
| 1998 | Bachelor of Fine Arts, Printmaking with minor in Art History, Indiana University, Bloomington |
| 1997 | Indiana University Overseas Study Program in Florence, Italy |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2012 | On My Way Gone, Churner and Churner, New York |
| 2011 | No Man’s Land, Churner and Churner, New York |
| 2010 | Preserving Mass Extinction, Eugene Binder, Marfa, Texas |
| 2008 | A Royal Family, Eugene Binder, Marfa, Texas |
| 2007 | Joianne Bittle: A Royal Family, Sunroom Project Space, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York |
| 2006 | Joianne Bittle and Charles Ritchie, Akus Gallery, Willimantic, Conn. |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2013 | Notched Bodies, The Arsenal, Central Park, New York Monkey Business: The Paradox of Value, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris |
| 2012 | Art By Telephone…Recalled, New York, CNEI, Paris |
| 2011 | So Different, So Appealing, 50 Gramercy, New York |
| Winging It, Carracio Printing Studio, New York | |
| Tableaux Parisiens, The Do Right Hall, Marfa, Texas | |
| A Live Animal, Root Division, San Francisco, California | |
| 2010 | Entomologia, Observatory Room, Brooklyn |
| 2009 | Before & After, Eugene Binder, Marfa, Texas Rubber Sheets, C.R.E.A.M Projects, Brooklyn |
| Viridis II, Hewitt Gallery of Art, Marymount Manhattan College, New York | |
| 2008 | Bittle, Knight, Terry, Alexander, Eugene Binder, Marfa, Texas |
| 2002 | Art Handlers, Christies, New York |
| Crane Street Studios, Long Island City, New York | |
| 2001 | Art Frenzy, Long Island City Art Frenzy, New York |
| 1999 | Winter Exhibition, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy |
| 1998 | BFA Thesis Show, School of Fine Arts Gallery, H.R. Hope School of Fine Arts, Bloomington, Indiana |
| Annual Juried Exhibition, Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington, Indiana | |
| 1997 | Group Show, Tabor/Bruce/Puzzello & Associates, Bloomington, Indiana |
| Printmaking Group Show, School of Fine Arts Gallery, H.R. Hope School of Fine Arts, Bloomington, Indiana | |
| Creative Activities Award Exhibition, Honors Division House, Bloomington, Indiana |
LECTURES
| 2013 | “Artist Panel, Notched Bodies: Insects in Contemporary Art,” The Arsenal, Central Park, New York |
| 2012 | “Considering Visual Display, Fabrication and the Institution,” Parson’s New School for Design and Technology, New York |
| “Thesis Panel Review and Discussion,” University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA | |
| “Ideas As They Come,” Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI | |
| “North American Mammals Restoration Project Panel Discussion,” American Museum of Natural History, New York | |
| 2011 | “Tracks and Travels: A Look At Noguchi’s Drawings,” The Noguchi Museum, Long Island, New York |
| 2010 | Insects, Naturalists, Dioramas, and World Travels, Observatory Room, Brooklyn, New York |
| 2007 | Sunroom Project Space Presents, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York |
| 2006 | A Royal Family, Akus Gallery, Willimantic, Conn. |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| 2013 | Jennifer Lantzas, “Notched Bodies: Insects in Contemporary Art,” Issues in Science and Technology, National Academy of Sciences Magazine (Fall 2013) (ill.) |
| 2012 | Serena Qui, “Learning Natural History”, the WILD (September 2012) Oscar Laluyan, “An Artistic Odyssey by Joianne Bittle”, Arte Fuse (September 2012) |
| 2011 | Juliet Macey, “The Very Best of NYC Art,” GO Magazine (April 2011) |
| “Joianne Bittle: No Man’s Land,” New York Magazine (April 2011) | |
| Megan Heuer, “Joianne Bittle: 500 Words,” Artforum (March 2011) | |
| 2010 | Sterry Butcher, “Bittle diorama shows Marfa as it was, maybe,” The Big Ben Sentinel (December 2010) Ann Landi, “Where The Art Happened,” ARTnews (June 2010) |
CATALOGS and PUBLICATIONS
| On My Way Gone (New York: Churner and Churner, 2012) | |
| Nicholas Knight, ed., Tableaux Parisians (New York: EponanomyPress, 2011) | |
| Joianne Bittle: Field Companion (New York: self-published, 2011) |
“Churner and Churner’s two rooms now house Bittle’s largest solo show yet and feature a range of her multi-media works.”
Serena Qiu, “Learning Natural Histories: Joianne Bittle: On My Way Gone,” The Wild Magazine (September 2012)
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“There is a great arc of time covered by Bittle in this show as it has elements of prehistoric to the futuristic. A sort of man’s evolution and the journeys taken along the way.”
Oscar Laluyan, “An Artistic Odyssey by Joianne Bittle,” Arte Fuse (September 2012)
“No Mans Land” brings together two series of Bittle’s work: a recently completed group of paintings of jackrabbits and the first of a series of portable dioramas.”
Juliet Lacey, “The Very Best of NYC Art,” GO Magazine (April 2011)
“The gallery’s inaugural exhibition is also the first NY solo show for Bittle, a professional diorama maker for the American Museum of Natural History.”
“Joianne Bittle: No Man’s Land,” New York Magazine (April 2011)
“Preserving Mass Extinction is the first diorama installation that I consider my own work.”
Megan Heuer, “Joianne Bittle: 500 Words,” Artforum (March 2011)
Sterry Butcher, “Bittle diorama shows Marfa as it was, maybe,” The Big Ben Sentinel (December 2010)
