| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2010 |
Leaving Stories, James Chicago Hotel, Chicago, IL |
| 2009 |
ROADSIDE: A Presentation of Recent Field Experiments and Prototypes,
moniquemeloche, Chicago, IL |
| 2007 | Tell Me Something I Don’t Know, Raw + Co., Cleveland, OH |
| I Tried to Tell You, IPRH Gallery, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Urbana, IL |
| 2006 | It’s A Free Country, Rare Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2005 | A Place Some People Call America, moniquemeloche, Chicago, IL |
| 2001 | I Borrowed My Mother’s Bedroom, moniquemeloche, Chicago, IL |
| Playing Dead and Other Recent Work, Rare Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2000 | Slip, Performance with Ribbon Effect, Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL |
| 1999 | Slip, Performance with Ribbon Effect, Vedanta Gallery (now Kavi Gupta), Chicago, IL |
| Measuring Texas, Vedanta Gallery (now Kavi Gupta), Chicago, IL |
| 1996 | Capacity, Chicago Project Room, Chicago, IL |
| Between, Pictura Gallery, Lunds University, Lund, Sweden |
| 1995 | Severed, Gallery One, Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2010 |
TXT, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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I Feel Fine, Heuser Art Center, Bradley University, Peoria, IL |
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Our Kind of Town: Rethinking Chicago Images, Rena Sternberg Gallery, Glencoe, IL |
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Four American Landscapes, Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College,
Lynchburg, VA (traveled to George Adams Gallery, New York, NY) |
| 2009 |
Don’t Mention It, the Downtown Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH |
| 2008 |
Boys of Summer, moniquemeloche, Chicago, IL |
| Cultivating Instability, Cliff Dwellers Club, Chicago, IL |
| Lifting, Georgia Sherman Projects, Toronto, Ontario |
| Lifting, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth, TX |
| 2007 | Lifting, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, UK (curated by Atopia Projects) |
| Facades, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL |
| (un)Building, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA |
| Revive, Zygote Press, Clevland, OH |
| 2006 | Something to Do with Failure, MPAC Gallery, University of St. Francis, Joliet, IL |
| Underfire, I Space, Chicago, IL |
| Spectacles of the Real: Truth and Representation in Art and Literature, IPRH Gallery, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, |
| Urbana, IL |
| 2005 | Mind in Matter, Opensource Art, Champaign, IL |
| 2004 | Shutters, UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, Buffalo, NY |
| Going West, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX |
| 2003 | Operation: Human Intelligence organized by the C.I.A. (Curatorial Intelligence Agency) and produced by C.A.C. (Contemporary Arts Council) |
| at Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, (traveled to Univ. of Memphis Art Museum, Memphis, TN) |
| Bad Touch curated by Lump Projects/Gallery, Raleigh, NC (traveled to Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL; Keith Talent Gallery, London UK; The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; Beaker Gallery, Tampa, FL) |
| PasCap! curated by Pierre Raine, www.hommemoderne.org/images/actions/pascap/index.html |
| 2002 | There Goes My Hero: Works on Paper by Chicago Artists, Squire Gallery, College of Northumbria in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK |
| Gun Crazy, University of Alabama Visual Art Gallery, Birmingham, AL |
| mixer02, moniquemeloche, Chicago, IL |
| 2000 | HOMEWRECKER, moniquemeloche, Chicago, IL |
| 1999 | Chicago Artists 1999, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL |
| 1998 | Sculpture in Chicago, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| 1997 | Greatest Hits, Volume 2, Beret International Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| Obsessions, SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH |
| 1996 | Greater Than 2 Dimensions, Beret International Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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| 2010 | “Art, Luxury & Overnight Accommodations Find Common Ground at the James Hotel,” www.curated.com, May 11, 2010. http://curated.culturejam.com/2010/05/art-luxury-overnight-accommodations-find-common-ground-at-the-james-hotel/ |
| Bonnie Jean Adams, artist interview, www.examiner.com, April 30, 2010. http://www.examiner.com/x-20561-Chicago-Culture--Events Examiner~y2010m4d30-Meet-Chicago-artist-Joel-Ross--See-Leaving-Stories-at-the-St-James-Hotel-tonight |
| 2009 | Atopia Projects, Ed. Lifting. Published by Atopia Projects, Peacock Visual Arts, and The Art Galleries at TCU (PDF version 2007, Print version 2009), pp.100-107. |
| Michael Weinstein, “Review: Joel Ross at Monique Meloche Gallery,” and Top Five Recommended, New City, May 4, 2009. |
| Pedro Vélez, “Around Artropolis,” Aesthetica, artnet.com, May 11, 2009. |
| Daniel Tucker, “Consider the City,” Art Department, Chicago Journal, May 20, 2009, p.1. |
| Meredith Kooi, “Jesus Said Shut the Fuck Up,” www.greenlanternpress.wordpress.com, June 1, 2009. http://greenlanternpress.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/jesus-said-shut-the-fuck-up/ |
| “Straight Talk: Artist Joel Ross on the photo ‘Be Gay’” as told to Ann Wiens, Chicago Magazine, June 2009, p.160. |
| 2007 | Dina Deitsch, “Ross / Room 28,” thresholds, issue 34, Ed. Winnie Won Yin Wong, MIT Department of Architecture, summer 2007 |
| Dina Deitsch, (un)Building, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, (exhibition catalog) |
| Cate McQuaid, “Group shows build on architecture and science,” The Boston Globe, July 5, 2007 |
| “Review: Joel Ross,” artUS, issue 19, winter 2007 |
| Zachary Lewis, Cleveland Scene, Monday, May 21, 2007 |
| “Hot Hotels: 65 Cool New Places to Stay,” Condé Nast Traveler (U.K.), May 2007 |
| Tami L. Gadbois, “Look Again, Revive @ Zygote,” angle, vol. 3, no. 31, March/April 2007 |
| Douglas Max Utter, “Everything Old Is New Again: Revive Rubs the Present Against the Past at Zygote Press,” The Cleveland Free Times, January 31, 2007 |
| Jessica Downey, “Art and Soul,” Lodging Magazine, January 2007 |
| 2006 | Elaine Glusac, “The Class of 2006,” F!Dluxe, The Dallas Morning News, November 2006 |
| David Hochman, “Travel: Chicago,” Forbes Life, October 2006 |
| Jason Hahn, “The Art of Comfort,” d + a, 2006 |
| Alan Artner, “Review: Under Fire,” Chicago Tribune, sec. 7, p. 25, Sept. 22, 2006 |
| Barbara Ballinger, “Making the It List,” i4 design magazine, Fall 2006 |
| Aric Chen, “Hotel of the Moment,” Departures, September 2006 |
| Kristi Cameron, “Glamming It Up,” Metropolis Magazine, September 2006 |
| Carol Toller, “The James Hotel, Chicago” The Globe and Mail, Sept. 26, 2006 |
| CBS 2, Eye on Chicago, aired June 2006 |
| Stephen Weiss, “In Chicago: David Burke’s Primehouse & the James Hotel,” BlackBook, June 20, 2006 |
| 2005 | A.M., “Joel Ross: A Place Some People Call America,” issue 58, Oct 25-31, 2005, www.flavorpill.net |
| John McKinnon, “Joel Ross at Monique Meloche Gallery: Flagging Power questioning the authority of a symbol,” F Newsmagazine, December 2005 |
| 2004 | Erin Keever, Going West, Arthouse at the Jones Center (exhibition catalog) |
| Review, “Austin an Art Destination to Watch,” In the Galleries, February 2004 |
| 2002 | Bridge 5, “Leaving Stories” artist’s project, Vol 2 No 1 pp.133-141 |
| James R. Nelson, “Gun takes on loaded forms in exhibit, but most misfire,” The Birmingham News, August 2002 |
| 2001 | Leah Finch, Review: “I Borrowed My Mother’s Bedroom,” New Art Examiner, September 2001 |
| Jeffery Kastner, Review: “Playing Dead and other Recent Work,” ArtText, May/June 2001 |
| Stephanie Waddell, Review: “I Borrowed My Mother’s Bedroom,” TenByTen Magazine, June, 2001, www.tenbyten.net/joelross.html |
| 2000 | Ann Wiens, The Chicago Collection, Fall 2000 |
| Michael Bulka and Pedro Velez, Review: HOMEWRECKER, Chicago Art Critics Association FGA online |
| 1999 | Ann Wiens, Review: “Measuring Texas,” Dialogue, September/October 1999 |
| Kathryn Hixson, Review: “Measuring Texas,” New Art Examiner, November 1999 |
| Kim Bastyr, “ The Fab Five: A Sampling of Chicago’s New Guard of Artists,” Chicago Social, September 1999 |
| Alan Artner, review, “Measuring Texas,” Chicago Tribune, June 1999 |
| Fred Camper, “Size Matters,” The Chicago Reader, June 1999 |
| 1997 | Siobhan La Piana, “Obsessive Replay,” The Cleveland Times, March 1997 |
| Steven Litt, “Disturbing, provocative views of the mundane,” The Plain Dealer, March 1997 |
| 1996 | Ann Wiens, Review: New City, December 1996 |
| Jim Dorling, Review: “Buried Alive,” The Chicago Reader, October 1996 |
| Gorel Svahn, review: “Har soks konstens innersta sanningar,” Sydsvenska Dagbladet, May 1996/td> |
| Jenny Wickberg, review: “Installation med hangande tandborstar,” Skanska Dagbladet, May 1996 |