ciriculum vite
Joyce brienza
home: oak park, studio: Detroit born: new jersey
Education Master of Fine Arts, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
selected exhibitions
2018 Floating Points, North Campus Research Complex, Rotunda Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2017 Drawn Together, Scarub Club, Detroit, MI
2016 Pioneers, Cass Café, Detroit, MI
2015 The Art of Healing, Swords Into Plowshares Gallery, Detroit, MI
Impart, University of Michigan Faculty Exhibit, Slusser Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
2014 Great Lakes Drawing Biennial, Ford Gallery, EMU, Ypsilanti, MI
Big Paintings @ the Factory, Midland Invitational, Highland Park, MI
*Less and More, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI
2013 Line by Line; Drawing Explored, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI
2011 From Our Perspectives, Oakland Community College, Farmington Hills, MI
2010 Standing Heat, The Front, New Orleans, LA
2010 Explosicion de DinA4, Museo Provincial de Artes Santa Rosa,
La Pampa, Argentina
2009 Living Green, Art, Design & Cuisine, Arkitektura In-Situ, Birmingham, MI
2008 Spirit, The Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
Women Image Women 2008, Scarub Club, Detroit, MI
* Joyce Brienza and Ruth Foote, Macomb Ctr Gallery, Clinton Twp, MI
Driven: Motor City Art, Kerredge Gallery, Hancock, MI
Selected awards
Artist in Residence, Childrens Hospital, DMC, Detroit, MI, 2005 - 2010
Aritst in Residence, Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of
Democracy, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ, CASE Service Learning Program,1995
Selected biography
Elizabeth Smith, https://pulp.aadl.org/node/372560, Interview with the artist
Ron Scott, detroitartreview.com, “Drawn Together @ the Scarub Club
September 18, 2016
Dennis Nawrocki, Gallery Project news room,“Considering the Spiritual in Art,
Mid-2008”, July 24, 2008
Mike Tolinski, Gallery Project news room, “Spirit Exhibition Resurrects the Past In the
Present”, July 5, 2008
Keri Guten-Cohen, Detroit Free Press, Detroit, MI “Art Speaks to Detroit’s Past, Future”,
Feb 2, 2003
Selected teaching
Penny W Stamps School of Art and Design, U of M, Ann Arbor, 2003 – present
College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI, 2002 - 2015
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 1999 - 2010 (sabbatical substitute for Peter Williams and Jim Nawara)
California Summer School for the Arts @ Cal Arts, Valencia, CA, 2000
Visiting Artist/Lectures
2017 Scarub Club, Gallery Talk
2015 Swords Into Plowshares, Gallery Talk
2013 Detroit Artist Market, panel discussion on drawing