Joel Joseph

Joel Joseph studied drawing and painting as a young artist for many years at the Cleveland Museum of Art. At Northwestern University, Joseph studied art and was taken under the wing of George Cohen, chairman of the art department. Cohen became Joseph’s mentor and guided Joseph’s independent study in 1968 and 1969. Cohen introduced Joseph to many artists, included noted social realist Ben Shahn, and to many galleries and museums in Chicago.

Cohen, himself a well-known surrealistic painter, was a founding member of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Cohen’s inspirational work can be found in permanent collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Carnegie Mellon Museum in Pittsburgh, the Minneapolis Museum of American Arts and the Hirschhorn Collection in Washington, D.C. Cohen had an exceptionally strong influence on Joseph’s development as a political artist.

After graduating from Northwestern University, Joseph studied silk screen printing from Clifford Chieffo, the head of the art department at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Some of Joseph’s work is in the concrete poetry genre. Concrete poetry consists and...

Northwestern University, Georgetown University, studied under head of art departments at both universities.
Studied at Cleveland Museum of Art.

Gallery 825, various shows in 2017, 2018