Joseph Laurro

I am searching while painting and making visual decisions directly in the process. It is visceral, and anything feels possible. My love for nature and animals are never far from hand. Images become meditations on movement, they turn to folklore, science and the sacred. I feel like they are sometimes a counterweight to a world of despair, and why I persist.

Joseph’s work highlighted by Rachael Thomas, Senior Curator of the Museum of Modern Art (Dublin) was chosen for the competitive Curate-NYC. His published works include Macmillan Learning and About Place Journal. Laurro exhibits locally and nationally, including; The Mercer Gallery, Arts Gowanus, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Greenpoint Gallery, Arts on the Ave-NYC and Local Projects. Joseph is an educator in NYC public schools and resides in Brooklyn, NY.

Brooklyn College, Masters of Art in Art Education

State University of New York, College at New Paltz.
BFA- Fine Arts- Painting & Drawing

2024 Arts Gowanus
Public outdoor exhibition Old Stonehouse Brooklyn NY

2023 Arts Gowanus/Brooklyn Pride
"Together We Will" a public outdoor exhibition Old Stonehouse

2022 “Arts Gowanus ArtWalk on Atlantic Ave”
Brooklyn, NY (featured on Artsy.net)

2021 NEST at Artpoetica
Gowanus Open Studios- Brooklyn, NY

2021 Art on the Ave-NYC
Greenwich Village NYC

2020 About Place Journal, Vol.VI Issue II
works-of-resistance-resilience

2018 "Evidence" Solo Exhibition
Mercer Gallery- Rochester, NY

2018 Postcards from the Edge
Gallery 524, NYC
Visual AIDS Benefit

2017 The Connective Project
Public Art Project Celebrating 150th Anniversary of Prospect Park Brooklyn

2017 Postcards from the Edge
Metro Pictures, NYC
Visual AIDS Benefit

2017 Small Works Show
Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2016 Mural Painting- Pioneer Academy
PS-307, Corona, NY

2016 Group Show
Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2015 The Salon Show
Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2014- Brooklyn Independent Media (BRIC)
"On Air" 15 Minutes Project
with Sheba Legend

2014 Open Studio's-
Ditmas Park. Brooklyn, NY

2014 The Salon Show
Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2013 Curate NYC Exhibition; Guest Curator: Rachael Thomas, Senior Curator/Head of Exhibitions
Irish Museu...