Andrea Joki (b. 1969, Minneapolis, MN) investigates concepts of time and transformation through a range of approaches to painting. She is less interested in a singular style than in the expansiveness of a painting practice to further her research. Her abstract visual language is often a mash-up of hard-edge and gestural mark-making. Through her ongoing site specific research project, Site Clocks, she lets process determine the mark, inviting water and gravity to determine the flow of paint.
Andrea received her MFA from Kent State University, Kent, OH and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has exhibited in institutions including the Akron Art Museum, OH (2018) and the Cleveland Museum of Art, OH (2006) and has mounted several solo and two-person shows in galleries and universities nationally. Joki is the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in Painting (2015), a Cuyahoga Arts and Culture Creative Workforce Fellowship (2009), and artist residency fellowships that include Headlands Center for the Arts (2016), Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2013), and the Vermont Studio Center (2011). The artist lives and works in Los Angeles and holds a studio in the Bendix Building in downtown LA.
Born in Minneapolis, MN
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Education
2006 MFA, Kent State University, Kent, OH
1993 BS Art, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Selected Solo and Two-person Exhibitions
2017
echo in the half-light, K. Imperial Gallery, San Francisco, CA
UFF-DA: Andrea Joki and Stacy Wendt, Eastside International, Los Angeles, CA
Andrea Joki: Recent Works, Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ
2016
Flickering Sky, 2731 Prospect Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2015
Paintings, William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, OH, catalogue
2014
Zig-Zag Wanderers: Andrea Joki + Tessie Whitmore, ESXLA, Los Angeles, CA
Flexible Domains (with Matthew Kolodjiez), Harris Stanton Gallery, Akron, OH
2013
Moving Pictures, Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ
Moving Pictures, William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, OH, catalogue
2011
Crossing, William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, OH, catalogue
2010
Field Work, Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
2009
Reservoir, William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, OH, catalogue
2008
Papersound (with Chris Auerbach-Brown), Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2006
Voyage of Discovery-Entdeckte und Entdecker (w/ Udo Haufe), Kulturrathaus, Dresden, Germany
MFA Thesis Exhibition, School of Art Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2005
Recent Works (with Lorri Ott), Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, OH
2001
Seeing Things, Altefeuerwache Loschwitz, Dresden, Germany
push-Pull (with Kelly Novak), Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH
Group Exhibitions
2018
Cleveland in Newark, Denison College Art Space in Newark, OH
SITE, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH, curated by Dragana Crjnak
Frameworks, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, curated by Ellen Rudolph
2017
The Visitors, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
2016
Touch: Between Image and Surface, University of Akron, Akron, OH, catalogue, curated by Matthew Kolodjiez
All Together Now, 2731 Prospect Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Faculty Exhibition, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
2015
Works on Paper, 2731 Prospect Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Chaos Management, The Waiting Room, Minneapolis, MN, curated by Jehra PatricK
The Inaugural Juried Exhibition, Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH
Juntos, Stocker Art Gallery, Lorain County Community College, Lorain, OH, curated by Dante Rodriguez
2014
Without Boundary, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD, curated by Christine Pfister
The New Now, Artist Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH
25th Anniversary Exhibition, William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2012
Time and Place, Urban Art Space, Columbus, OH
ArtsQuarter, juried by Barbara Tannenbaum, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH
2010
Collections as Evidence of Now, Zygote Press Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2009
Cracking the Combinations, turn-berlin Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2008
Material Studies: Process + Play, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH
Connections II: Ohio Artists Abroad, Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH, catalogue
2006
Transformations and Meditations, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, curated by Bellamy Printz
2005
The NEO Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, catalogue
2004
Foreign Affairs, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, catalogue
The Open Book, Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, OH, curated by Julie Friedman
Special Projects
2012 – Present
Site Clocks: a twenty-year project of once-per-year performative drip paintings at specific sites across North America, to-date sites include Dardanelle, AR (The Meeting Tree); Brooklyn, NY (Noise); Indianola, IA (Al's Balloon); Twentynine Palms, CA (Time Passing in the Mojave Desert), Cleveland, OH (Blackout).
2008
Papersound (with composer Chris Auerbach Brown): a room-scale immersive sound/drawing experiment, SPACES, Cleveland, OH.
2003-06
Voyage of Discovery - Entdeckte und Entdecker (with Udo Haufe): a three-year drawing and printmaking project investigating the idea of the other, with a portfolio of 15 works developed through blind collaboration and exchanged through the mail between artist Udo Haufe, living and working in Dresden, Germany and Andrea Joki, living and working in Cleveland, OH.
Awards and Artist Residencies
2017 Eastside International Art Space, Artist Residency, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist Residency, Sausalito, CA
2015 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in Painting
2014 Eastside International Art Space, Artist Residency, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Sante Fe Art Institute, Artist Residency, Sante Fe, NM
2012 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Artist Residency, Amherst, VI
2011 Vermont Studio Center, Artist Residency, Johnson, VT
2011 Nesnadny + Schwartz Visiting Curator - Selected Artist (studio visit with Anne Ellegood), MOCA Cleveland
2009 Creative Workforce Fellowship, Community Partnership for Arts and Culture, Cleveland, OH
2006 Nesnadny + Schwartz Visiting Critic - Selected Artist (studio visit with Eleanor Heartney), MOCA Cleveland
2006 International Travel Grant, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2006 Graduate Appointment, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2004 Graduate Appointment, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2001 Grafikwerkstatt, Dresden, Germany, Artist Residency, Ohio Arts Council
Presentations
2018
Artist Talk: Andrea Joki, Youngstown State University, OH
Panel Discussion: Painting Practices, Akron Art Museum, OH
Artist Talk: Andrea Joki, Dragana Crjnak, Matthew Kolodjiez, Akron Art Museum
2016
Artist Talk: Andrea Joki, 2731 Prospect Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Artist Talk: Resident Artists, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Artist Talk: Andrea Joki, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Artist Talk: Andrea Joki, University of Akron, OH
2015
Panel Discussion: Works on Paper, 2731 Prospect Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Presentation: 8 x 8, SPACES, Cleveland, OH
2014
Artist Talk: Zig-Zag Wanderers, Eastside International Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
Panel Discussion: Art-Making in the 21st Century, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2010
Artist Talk: Andrea Joki, Olin Auditorium, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
2008
Artist Talk: Interdisciplinary Collaborative Process, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Presentation, Myers School of Art, University of Akron, Akron, OH
2006
Artist Talk: Andrea Joki, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Artist Talk: Andrea Joki, Frohring Art Center, Hiram College, Hiram, OH
Panel Discussion: Artist Residencies, Cleveland State University Art Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Artist Talk: The Artist Book, Zygote Press Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Teaching and Professional Experience
2017-23 Grant Writer
2016-18 Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
2014-15 Adjunct Professor of Art, Printmaking, Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, OH
2011-13 Art Writer (contract), Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009-14 Program Director, Heights Arts, Cleveland Heights, OH
2007-08 Adjunct Professor of Art, Printmaking, Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, OH
2004-06 Teaching Assistant (of record), Printmaking, Kent State University, Kent, OH
Public Collections
ArtNEO, Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Artists Association, Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP, Cleveland, OH
Metro Health, Cleveland, OH
Oatey Company, Cleveland, OH
Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland, OH
Ritz Carlton, Cleveland, OH
Bibliography
Morgan Meis, 28 Days in Cleveland, Arthopper, July 9, 2015
Anderson Turner, Kinetic Paintings of Andrea Joki, review, Akron Beacon Journal, Akron, OH, June 27, 2015
Dee Perry, The Sound of Applause: Andrea Joki and William Busta, WCPN, June 4, 2014
New American Paintings, Issue 107, 2013
Douglas Max Utter, Andrea Joki: The Unseen, catalogue essay, William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, OH, February 2013
Jenniffer Omaitz, Dancing Paint, review, Arthopper, September 28, 2012
William Busta, Andrea Joki: Crossing, catalogue essay, William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, OH, February 2011
parProjects, William Busta when in Cleveland, review, theroadtorefresh.com/2011/03, Cincinnati, OH, March 2011
Steven Litt, William Busta Gallery presents the best Cleveland contemporary art, review, The Plain Dealer,
March 25, 2011
Megan Lykins Reich, Surface Chatter, exhibition essay, Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, September 2010
One Story, Many Voices – the 2009 and 2010 Creative Workforce Fellows, film and catalogue, Community Partnership for Arts and Culture, Cleveland, OH, 2010
Dan Tranberg, Multiplicities, catalogue essay, William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, OH, February 2009
Connections II, Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery exhibition catalogue, January/March 2008
Christopher A. Yates, Foreign Exchange, review, The Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, OH, February 3, 2008
Douglas Max Utter, Revive, review, Free Times, Cleveland, OH, January 24, 2007
Heinz Weißflog, Druck-Gemeinschaft über den Großen Teich, review, Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten, Dresden, Germany, June 13, 2006
Artist Portfolio - centerfold, Angle Magazine, Cleveland, OH, pp. 14-15, Vol. 3, No. 28, September/October 2006
The NEO Show, exhibition catalogue, The Cleveland Museum of Art, July/September 2005
Laine B. Nyden, Zygote Press: Year One, review, dialogue, Columbus, OH, March/April 1998