Born in Boston, MA in 1972

Lives and works in Los Angeles

2002 MFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

1997 MA, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA

1995 BA, Art History and Sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Solo Exhibitions

2008	"Joel Tauber: Digging, Diving, Flying, and Loving”, Adamski Gallery, Berlin, Germany
	"Sick-Amour”, Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Arts, Whittier College, Whittier, CA
2007	"Sick-Amour”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
	"Sick-Amour”, Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany
2006	"Searching for the Impossible: Digging, Flying and Diving", Gallery Saintonge, Missoula, Montana
2005	"Seven Attempts to Make a Ritual", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, project space
	"The Underwater Project: Turning Myself Into Music”, Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
	"The Underwater Project: Turning Myself Into Music", Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany
2004	"The Underwater Project: Turning Myself Into Music", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
	"Searching For The Impossible: The Flying Project”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2003	"Searching For The Impossible”, Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany
1999	"Spiritual Anxiety: 31 Rats & 15 Doves”, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA

Group Exhibitions

2010	"Water, CA”, a book and an exhibition at the Los Angeles Public Library Gallery. Curated and written by Enid Baxter Blader and Nicole Antebi
2009	"ecoLOGIC" at the Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA, curated by Patrica Watts
	"LA 2019: Cults, Collectives, & Cocooning", 18th Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA, curated by Ciara Ennis
2008	"Flight dreams”, The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia, Canada
	"California Biennial 2008”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, curated by Lauri Firstenberg
	"The Whole World Is Still Watching”, Glendale Community College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA. Curated by Irene Tsatsos
	"Gravity Art”, Telic Arts Exchange, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Rene Daalder
	"Systems Theory”, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
	"Tree Service”, Jeanne Patterson’s Domestic Setting, LA, CA. Curated by Michael Gold and Jeanne Patterson
2007	Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA, Curated by Maggi Owens.
	"Love is Like Oxygen”, W139, Amsterdam, Holland, curated by Theo Tegelaers
	"The New Authentics: Contemporary Artists of the post-Jewish Generation", catalogue, Spertus Museum,
	Chicago, IL, curated by Staci Boris, traveling to Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2006	"700% Plus”, CPH Kunsthal Festival, Copenhagen
	"Sick-Amour; a preview”, "Artini Shorts 2006”, Missoula Art Museum, MT, curated by Toni Matlock
	"Happy Believers”, 7th Werkleitz Biennial, Volkspark, Halle, Germany, curated by Anke Hoffmann, Solvej Ovesen, Angelika Richter and Jan Schuijren
	"Eco Lux: Art in the Light of Ecology”, Lightbox, Los Angeles
	Werkleitz Biennale, Werkleitz Gesellschaft, Halle, Germany
2005	"The Gravity in Art", De Appel Centre For Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Curated by Rene Daalder and Theo Tegelaers
	"Still, Things Fall From The Sky”, University of California Riverside / California Museum of Photography Curated by Ciara Ennis, catalog
2004	"The California Biennial", Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA , curated by Liz Armstrong and Irene Hoffman, catalog
	"Video Lounge", ArtBasel Miami Beach, Miami, FL, curated by Sandra Antelo-Suarez and Guillermo Santamarina
2003	"Light and Spaced Out: 11 Artists From Los Angeles, Herve Loevenbruck Gallery, Paris, France and the Centre d’Art Passerelle, Brest, France, Curated by Carlos Cardenas.
	"Works on Paper by Gallery Artists”, Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany.
	"Enter Intercessor”, RAID Projects, Los Angeles, California. Curated by Carrie Patterson
2002	"Stuff From L.A. and Other Places”, Christine Konig Gallery, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Skip Arnold.
	"To Believe Much More Than That”, Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
1999	"Convergence: A National Juried Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Memorial Hall Center for the Arts, Wilmington, VT. Juried by Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, Senior Curator at the DeCordova Museum And Sculpture Park.
1998	"1998 National Juried Exhibition”, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI. Juried by John Udvardy, Sculptor and
	Professor of Art at Rhode Island School of Design.
	"New Art ’98: National Juried Exhibition”, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA. Juried by Helaine Posner, Curator at M.I.T.’s List Visual Arts Center.
	"Art in the Yard: Outdoor Sculpture Show ‘98”, Hole in the Wall Studio Works, Raymond, ME.
1996	"Cybermama”, The Artscape Gallery, Boston, MA
1995	Outdoor Sculpture Installation, Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT

Bibliography

2009	Immediato, Linda, "Gallery of Earthly Delights”, Angeleno Magazine, January
2008	Joel Tauber, "A Life Redeemed”, NYARTS, November / December
	"Joel Tauber in Conversation With Susan Bell Yank”, 2008 California Biennial Catalog, pg 198-199.
	Kelley Jr., Bill, "Observations on ‘Sick-Amour’”, Log: Observations on architecture and the contemporary city, Spring / Summer, pg 80.
	Geagea, Nadia, "’Sick-Amour:’ One Californian’s Love Affair with Trees”, International Society of Arboriculture: Arborist•News magazine, February
	Biemiller, Lawrence, "At USC, a Sycamore With a Story to Tell”, The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 18.
	"Walden School’s ‘Tree Baby’ Project”, Pasadena Outlook, September 25
	"Tree Planting Ceremony Held”, La Canada / La Crescenta Valley Sun, September 18
	"Tree Project Branches Off Across SoCal”, USC Chronicle, February 4
	Sheppard, Dale, "Flight Dreams”, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Journal, Fall / Winter
	Vider, Stephen, "Cultural Evolution: What exactly is "post-Jewish” art?”, Netbook, July 2
	Joel Tauber, "Growing”, University of Southern California BA/BFA Catalogue, May
	Mania, Astrid, "Graben und Fliegen”, Artnet, March 25
	Geagea, Nadia, "Sick-Amour:” One Californian’s Love Affair with Trees”, International Society of Arboriculture: Arborist, February
	Villamagna, Holly, "Sculptures honor urban plant life Sculptures surrounding a newly-planted tree aim to inspire respect for nature”, Daily Trojan, January 25
	Biemiller, Lawrence, "At USC, a Sycamore With a Story to Tell”, The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 18
2007	Nelson, Sarah Geller, "What Kind of Transformations Would We Enjoy If We Tried To Achieve The Impossible?” and Boris, Stacy, "The New Authentics, Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation”, (exhibition catalogue) Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Chicago
	Miles, Christopher, "Our Favorite Shows and Artifacts: Joel Tauber at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,” LA Weekly, December 27
	Gunn, Dan. "Eye Exam: Authentically Yours”, NewCity Chicago, December 04
	Brooks, Kimberly, "First Person Artist: Joel Tauber”, The Huffington Post, November 16
	Patterson, Carrie, "Joel Tauber: Sick Amouor”, Art Circles, Issue #5, Fall
	Gray, Emma, "L.A. Confidential”, artnet, October 12
	Villamagna, Holly, "Planting ‘amour’ seeds in L.A.”, The Daily Trojan, October 2
	Khuri, Elizabeth, "Public Art Angel: Lauri Firstenberg gets art out of museums and into the street”, West: LA Times Magazine, September 16
	Zellen, Jody, "Joel Tauber”, artUS, Summer
	Degen, Pener, "A Pasadena Parking Lot’s cherished Tree”, seedhead.com, July 13
	Martin, Victoria, "Joel Tauber at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects”, Artweek, June
	McCave, Lesley, "Regional Roundup: Los Angeles", Artinfo.com, April 11
	Brooks, Amra, "Must See Art”, LA Weekly, April 11
	Soules, Carol, "Sick-Amour", http://terranovadesign.blogspot.com, April 9
	"Sick-Amour: A Guerrilla in Sunny CA", Guerillagardening.org, April 9
	Myers, Holly, "Joel Tauber‚s Rose Bowl Sycamore Project Rooted in Obsession", Los Angeles Times, March 30
	Clothier, Peter, The Buddha Diaries Blog, http://thebuddhadiaries.blogspot.com, March 23
	Es, Carol, "Good shows around town”, esart.com, March 21
	Mizota, Sharon, "Crawling into the woodwork”, Los Angeles Times, March 10
	Calder, Diane, "Joel Tauber”, Artscene, March
	Gray, Emma, "Future Greats”, Art Review, March
	Gray, Emma, "The ‘It’ Factor”, artnet, February 19
	Blodgett, Erica, "A Sycamour Affair… The love story of Joel Tauber and his lonely sycamore”, The Design Magazine, February
2006	Harvey, Doug, "The new, weird counterculture”, LA Weekly, November 16
	Tsui, Loire, "Protector of a lone sycamore tree: Teacher is creating an art exhibit about the future of a tree in Rose Bowl parking lot”, Daily Trojan, November 3
	Williams, Janet, "His Tree of Life: Artist Tends to Lone Sycamore in Rose Bowl Parking Lot”, Pasadena Star News, October 4
	Gray, Emma, "L.A. Confidential”, artnet, August 21
	www.vvork.com, August
	Werkleitz Biennale (exhibition catalogue), Werkleitz Gesellschaft, Halle, Germany
	Bokern, Anneke, "Bedingungsloser Körpereinsatz”, Artnet.com, January 19
2005	de Vries, Marina, "Indrukwekkende ‘poging tot vliegen’”, De Volkskrant, www.volkskrant.nl/kunst, December 21
	"On Stage”, USC Chronicle, August 29
	Sachs, Mark, "The caveman digs nature and the Sox”, Los Angeles Times, August 25
	Villasenor, Michael, "Water world of music”, Daily Trojan, August 24
	Newhouse, Kristina, "Experiencing the California Biennial”, X-Tra, Spring Issue, Vol.7, No.3
	Tumlir, Jan, "California Biennial", Artforum, pg. 168
2004	Hart, Hugh, "Into it for the shock of his life - Joel Tauber tries to jolt himself into seeing his place on
	Earth. In his art he flies, dives, dares", Los Angeles Times, December 25
	"Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects presents JOEL TAUBER: The Underwater Project; Turning Myself Into Music", re-title.com, December 24
	Knight, Christopher, "Staking a claim for an idiom of Los Angeles", Los Angeles Times, November 26
	Pincus, Robert, "Tuning in to the O.C.:‚Biennial‚ belly laughs", San Diego Union Tribune, November 7
	Gary, Jessica, "Adventures in the OC”, Insurgent Muse: Notes from the Underground
	Knight, Christopher, "Biennial arrives, and so does a museum", Los Angeles Times, October 13
	Chang, Richard, "The art of the new", Orange County Register, October 10
	Walsh, Daniella, "Orange Blossoms”, Riviera, September Issue
	Simon, Jane, "Joel Tauber", 2004 California Biennial catalogue, pg 112 – 115
	Kraus, Chris, "Cast Away”, Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness, pg 149-150. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e)
2003	Ouest, Cote, "Des Anges De 30 Ans”, Nova Magazine June
	"Light and Spaced Out”, Vogue: Paris May
	"From L.A.” ("Light and Spaced Out” preview), Mouvement May – June
	"Redonner a Saint Germain son aura d’antan” ("Light and Spaced Out” preview), L’OEIL May
2002	Piccard, Don (aviation pioneer, inventor, father of modern ballooning), "Coyote Dry Lake Flight”, www.piccard.info, June 22
2001	Kraus, Chris "Cast Away”, Art/Text May – July
2000	Ball, Molly, "From York Street to Broome, Yale Artists Grow Up”, The Yale Herald 21 January
1999	Faxon, Alicia , "Joel Tauber: Spiritual Anxiety, 31 Rats and 15 Doves”, Art New England June / July
	McQuaid, Cate "The Stuff of Dreams”, The Boston Globe 18 February
1998-1999	Cover image of arts MEDIA Magazine Winter Issue
1998	Faxon, Alicia "Bristol Art Museum / Bristol: 1998 National Juried Exhibition”, Art New England October / November
	Nieter, Dawn, "National Art Show Opens at Memorial Hall”, The Deerfield Valley News 24-31 December
1995	Soloski, Alexis, "The Undergraduate Art Show: Our Lives on Display”, The Yale Herald 6 October 1995.
	Lana, Cheryl, "Sculpture Show Harmonizes Forces”, The Yale Herald 31 March 1995.

Public Collections

Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany

W139, Amsterdam Netherlands

USC Roski School of Fine Arts, Los Angeles

Newcomb’s Ranch, Altadena, CA

Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA

Other Projects

2007-2008	"Sick-Amour”, LA><ART public initiatives: Tree museum, Parking Lot K, Rose Bowl, Pasadena;
2007	series of tree baby shrines, public sites throughout Los Angeles. Sites include the USC Roski
	School of Art, LA, CA; LA><ART, LA, CA; the Theodore Payne Foundation, Sun Valley, CA; a
	sycamore grove in the restored Arroyo Seco Valley near the parent tree, Pasadena, CA; multiple
	elementary schools in southern California; Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany; W139,
	Amsterdam, Netherlands; and the Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA.

Film/TV/Radio

2009	"Shades of Green”, Ovation Network. Joel Tauber and Sick-Amour will be featured for a five minute segment in the hour long television documentary "Shades of Green”, which will be aired nation wide via the Ovation Network on television as well as the internet, February
2008	"Diving, Digging, Flying and Loving Interview with Joel Tauber”, Berliner Kunstkontakter: the active Art TV, Adamski Berlin, March
2007	Six-minute story about "Sick-Amour”, Deutsche Welle radio, Deutschlandfunk, March 18
	Mayer, Daniela, "Akustisches Tagebuch: Highlights, Art Cologne”, Art Radio Podcast, Germany ZDF tv station, Düsseldorf, Germany, April
2006	Ross Becker, "Local Story: Man Adopts Tree At Rose Bowl In Pasadena”, Channel 4 Los Angeles, NBC, October 11
	Bill Drummond, "Cities of the Plain”, NPR, June 2
2005	Storm, Louise, "FORMAT Los Angeles”, Swedish Television (aired in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland), October 18
2002	Live coverage of helium balloon and bagpipe powered flight, Z107.7 radio, Joshua Tree, CA, June 22
1999	Work discussed on the "Gary Jones Show”, Brookline Cable Access Television
1994-1995	"Shelter” (sculpture), the artist‚s ensuing conversation about loneliness is a primary focus of the film Boaz Halaban, "Generation X”, New Haven public television

Residencies

2009	Alpert Ucross Artist Residency Program, Clearmont, Wyoming
2008	Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Grants/Awards/Residencies

2007-2008	Alpert Ucross Residency Prize for Visual Arts
2007	Contemporary Collectors Orange County Fellowship

Lectures

2007	"Finding a Home in the World While Moving Across It”, film screening, Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Frenso, CA, curated by Susanneh Bieber
	"Xerxes, Watering, & Tree Guards", "The Invisible Worker", & "Tree Babies”, film screening, Ruth B.
	Shannon Center for the Performing Arts Whittier College, Whittier, CA
	Guest lecturer, Environmental Science Colloquium at Whittier College, CA
	Screening of "Searching for the Impossible: the Flying Project”, Mannheim Film Festival, Germany
	Guest lecturer, UCLA Extension, Michelle Eisenberg’s class
	Guest lecturer, UCLA Extension, Jeff Cain’s class
	Guest lecturer, Cal State Long Beach, Dana Doyle’s class
	Guest lecturer, UCLA, Dee Williams’ class
	Artist talk, USC
	Guest lecturer, Windward School, Postmodern Questions in Contemporary Art class
	Screening of "Flying Project”, program "Finding a Home in the World While Moving Across It”, First Fridays summer series, Fresno Metropolitan Museum
	Screening, "Sick-Amour”, Echo Park Film Center, May 31
	"Cultivating Wilderness”, ART-TALK-ART lecture series, Foundation for Art Resources, CalTrans building, Los Angeles
	Artist talk, Farmlab Public Salon, Los Angeles
2006	"Happy Believers: 7th Werkleitz Biennial”, Volkspark, Halle, Germany
	Artist talk, USC
	"Joel Tauber”, lecture by Lauri Firstenberg, Southern California Institute of Architecture
	"Joel Tauber”, lecture by MA Greenstein, Naropa University, Boulder, CO
	"Good Bye Festival”, CPH Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark
	"Artini Shorts 2006”, Missoula Art Museum, curated by Toni Matlock
2004	"Still Things Fall From the Sky: The unexpected, uncontrollable, and unexplained”, panel discussion at the California Museum of Photography with Ciara Ennis, two artists, an English professor, and a psychology professor
	Lectures about artist’s work to USC graduate students, undergraduate senior seminar class
2003	Lectures about artist’s work at the Orange County Museum of Art; UC Irvine; and the Art Institute of California, Orange County, CA
2002	Subject of "Wonky Angel in the Desert”, guest lecture by MA Greenstein at the University of New South
	Wales, Sydney, Australia, August
	Participated in "Remediating Social Contracts: A Round Table Discussion on Site Specific
	Performance Art”,Los Angeles Public Library, February 23
	Lecture about his work in MA Greenstein’s class "Comparative Aesthetics: The Body” at Art Center
	College of Design (February) and Otis College of Design (October)
2001	"Imagining Los Angeles Landscape: Video Art in the Millies”, Victoria College of Art, Melbourne, Australia, July
	"Seven Attempts To Make A Ritual” screened and discussed by MA Greenstein with films by Joseph Herring and Michelle Alperin, Lecture about his work in Brian McCormick’s class, "Science, Mysticism, and Art”, Art Center College of Design

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