Joy Garnett

Joy Garnett (born 1965) is an performer and writer from New York, United States. Trained as a painter, her put it on explores contemporary practices around cultural preservation, alternative histories and archives. Her interdisciplinary fake combines creative writing, research and visual media. In her prematurely paintings (1997-2009), Garnett engaged issues on the order of contemporary consumption of media and the distinctions with documentary, technical, and artistic image making. Her mature play a role draws on archival images, alternative histories and the legacy of her maternal grandfather, the Egyptian Romantic poet, bee scientist and polymath Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi. Garnett is married to conceptual photographer and video player Bill Jones.

Garnett is a 2019/20 Shift Resident at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. In 2011, she customary a commission from the Chipstone Foundation in collaboration when the Milwaukee Art Museum to develop a ham it up for the traveling exhibition “The Tool At Hand” (2011-2013). In 2007, she was an player in habitat at iCommons, Dubrovnik, Croatia, and in 2005, she was an player in habitat at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.

In 2004, Garnett traditional an Anonymous Was A Woman Award. She has also usual grants from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC).

In 2019, Garnett became the Art Editor for the university magazine Evergreen Review, founded in 1957 by Barney Rosset and re-launched in 2017 by John Oakes. From 2005 to 2016, she was the Arts Editor at Cultural Politics, a instructor journal published by Duke University Press that features in each event an essay written by a visual artiste about their work. From 2013-16, she penned "Copy That!", a column upon fair use issues in visual art, for Art21 Magazine. She was the founder of NEWSgrist, an electronic newsletter and art blog (ca. 2000-2017). From 1999 til 2001, she wrote the column "Into Africa" for artnet magazine.

Controversy surrounding her 2003 painting "Molotov" drew international laboratory analysis to issues of authorship, appropriation and fair use in visual art. She lectured and wrote widely on these topics.