Joan Wheeler

I am a recipient of the Connecticut Artist Fellowship Grant. I also received a Dan
Long grant for my work about sustainability and the environment. My work has
been featured in solo or group shows in the following museums, including the
Museum Of Contemporary Art Westport, the Coral Springs Museum of Art, the
Jewish Museum of Milwaukee,New Britain Museum of American Art, the New
York Hall of Science, the Stamford Museum and Nature Center, the Discovery
Museum, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, the Mattatuck Museum, the
Barnum Museum, Monmouth Museum, the Morris Museum, and Shore Institute
for Contemporary Arts. My work is in the permanent collection of the Housatonic
Museum and the Mattatuck Museum.I am an artist member of Silvermine Guild of
Artists and previous member of the Board of Directors and a past member of the
National Association of Women Artists.

 

My fiber art was selected by the Textile Alliance of the Cleveland Museum of Art
for the five- month exhibit “Focus: Fiber 2019” at Kent State University Museum.
I have exhibited at many other university galleries, including UNC Pembroke
Gallery; Penn State University HUB-Robeson Galleries; Robert Morris University
Gallery; Sacred Heart University Gallery; Manchester Community College, Dehn
Gallery; and the Schelfhaudt Gallery, University of Bridgeport.

 

I’ve exhibited in many galleries and museums and was represented by
Monique Knowlton Gallery in Soho, featured on the cover of Gallery Guide,
listed in Art in America’s guide to contemporary artists, and exhibited in
other NY galleries including AHA Fine Art, the Royal, Galerie Protege,
Atlantic Gallery, Exit Art, First Run Gallery, Broadway Windows, Kohn,
Pedersen Fox Gallery, the Works on Paper Show at the Armory, and the
Outsider Art Show in Soho. I am currently represented by the CAMP
Gallery.

Selected Group Exhibitions
2026
LIC-A Ghost Town February
“Functional Aesthetics”, Atlantic Gallery, Chelsea NY March
2025
“Connections” Schefhuldt Gallery, U of Bridgeport CT
“Becoming Plastic”, City Lights Gallery, Bridgeport CT
“Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse :Don’t Be Absurd” ,
CAMP Gallery Miami
“Peace Talks” Crown Gallery, Metro Art Studios CT
“The Future Belongs to the Loving”, Mapspace, Portchester, NY

“Threaded Visions: Fashion in Art”, BWAC, Brooklyn NY
“Ancestral Lines” Coral Springs Art Museum, Florida
“Women Speak”, City Lights Gallery, Bridgeport, CT
“Asking For a Friend”, Contemporary Art Modern Project, CAMP Gallery.
Miami
“Fragments:Reflections on Memory”,Kay Daugherty Gallery,
AnneMarieArts, Solomon MD
2024 We Got the Power, Camp Gallery Miami
RGOA juried show,Amy Smith-Stewart, chief curator/Aldrich Museum,
Ridgefield, CT
Palazzo Pisani Revedin, Venice Bienalle,Venice Italy, Bridgeport Art Trail
“In Our Hands/Gun Culture in America”, Metro Studios, Bridgeport, CT
2023 “This is not a Doll House” Camp Gallery, Miami
“Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse”,Jewish Museum of
Milwaukee
2022“A Room of One’s Own”, CAMP Gallery, Miami, FL
“Manifestations in Fiber”, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield CT
Westport MOCA,“Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse” CT.
“Don’t Say Gay”, Royal Society of American Art, Brooklyn, NY\
“Real and Imagined”, Five Points Arts, Torrington, CT
“Unleashed”, Surrealism show, AHA Fine Art Brooklyn NY
2021 “Ham Sandwich”, AHA Fine ArtBrooklyn, NY
“Viva la Memento Mori”, AHA Fine Art Brooklyn, NY
2020 “Heart and Mind”, Silvermine Galleries, Norwalk CT November 2019-
January 2020
2019 “Our Bodies Ourselves”, Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New
Haven, CT
Focus: Fiber 2019, Kent State University Museum, Kent, OH
2018“How with this Rage Shall Beauty Hold a Plea?”Kehler Liddell Gallery,
New Haven, CT
2017 “Oceans”, New York Hall of Science, NY.
“Flight”, Dehn Gallery, Manchester Community College, CT
“Selfie: “Self-Portraits”, Schelfhaudt Gallery, University of Bridgeport,

Reviews in many publications, including The New York Times, The
Stamford Advocate, the Ct. Post, the Norwalk Hour, CT Magazine, The
Maine Antique Digest, Antiques and the Arts Weekly, the New England
Review, and Juxtapoz Magazine