Joel L Kuennen, Brooklyn, NY

joelkuennen@gmail.com

Education:

MA Visual and Critical Studies, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

BA English Literature, German Language, Minor in Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse

Publishing:

Arts Writing/Journalism:

ArtSlant - Chief Operating Officer/Senior Editor - 09/2014 - Present

ArtSlant - Senior Editor, Director of Operations - 07/2012 - 09/2014

Arts Writers Workshop Participant, 2012

Selected by International Art Critics Association and the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program to be mentored by senior critic Walter Robinson.

ArtSlant - Editor - 04/2012 - 06/2012

ArtSlant - Staff Writer - 05/24/2010 - Present

FNews Magazine - Staff Writer - 02/05/2009 - 10/02/2009

Canon - Contributing Writer, Designer and Artist - Issue #2, 2009

Second Supper - Editor, Art Director - 08/2005 - 08/2008

Essays:

Theorizing Visual Studies: Writing through the Discipline, Ed. James Elkins, Kristi McGuire, Maureen Burns, Alicia Chester and Joel Kuennen

Editorial panel member and contributor, to be published by Routledge. 12/1/2012.

Barthes on Bataille and Augé’s Non-Place

Ben Seamons: Close and Deep Spaces, Fall 2012

Catalogue entry for Afterimage at DePaul Art Museum, Chicago

Light Farming / Heavy Gardening: Tending the Image, 2012

Catalogue entry for the 2012 Yale MFA Exhibition.

The Erotic in Context, Ed. Alhadeff, Garcia Sánchez, Kuennen. 2011

Coeditor and contributor published by ID Press

Curation:

Museums:

California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks:

Strings: Data and the Self – Co-curated with Riccardo Zagorodnev. Group show with Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Branger/Briz, Amanda Turner Pohan, Jennifer Chan, and Shawné Michaelain Holloway - 1/2018-4/2018 Fair Booths:

SPRING/BREAK Art Show:

David Rios Ferreira, Sabato Visconti, Katya Grokhovsky, daàPo reo – 03/2018

Brigitta Varadi, Tiffany Smith, Sterling Crispin, Bex Ilsley, Jinhee Park – 03/2017

Art Marbella:

Brett Day Windham - 07/2015

Aqua Art Fair:

Edra Soto, Adam Douglas Thompson, Anastasia Samoylova, Oren Pinhassi - 12/2014

Robin Kang, Maureen Meyer, Alison Pilkington, Alexis Courtney - 12/2013

Veronica Bruce, Steven Vasquez Lopez, Susan Meyer, Tomothy Gaewsky - 12/2012

EXPO Chicago:

Curator's Open: Cryptographics, Curated by Manus Groenen - 09/2014

Cutlog NY:

Rah Eleh, screening of Oreo, produced during the Georgia Fee Artist/Writer Residecy - 05/2014

ArtPadSF:

Error 415 New Media Award Exhibition - 05/2013

Alt Spaces:

ArtSlant Exhibitions - pop-up exhibitions in partnership with Chicago Loop Alliance

Edra Soto, 02/2015

Adam Douglas Thompson, Loose Ends 08/2014

Bryan Volta, Masculine Mythologies 06/2014

Paige Mostowy, 05/2014

Emily Hermant, 12/2013

Nick Vaughn and Jake Margolin, Selected Works, 10/2013

Jung Ji Lee, 09/2013

Alex Devereux, Urban Landscapes, 08/2013

K.A. Letts, New Paintings by K.A. Letts, 06/2013

Jerry Shevick, 04/2013