J o a n G r a b e l Fine Art Photographer/Artist/Designer
Public Art: New Mexico Art in Public Places 2024 ‘Meditation 7’White Sands, NM - University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque - to be installed Fall 2025
2023‘Meditation 9’White Sands, NM - Economic Development Department in Albuquerque,NM
2021 ‘Light Ascending’photograph purchased by the Ranchvale Volunteer Fire Dept, Clovis, New Mexico 2021‘Sky Above Sangre de Cristo Mountains’ photograph purchased by the Placitas Community Library in Placitas, New Mexico
2020 New Mexico Prospectus #260 Acclaimed Artist Purchase Initiative Three large scale works selected into the pool of artwork
Awards: 2022 International Color Awards 3 Nominations, Portrait,Nature & Abstract Category 2022 Black and White International Spider Awards 2 Nominations in Abstract Category 2020 International Color Awards Honorable Mention ‘Light Ascending’ 2 Nominations in the Abstract category
Selected Exhibitions:
2025 FOTO FORUM SANTA FE - juried group show - February 7th - April 25th, Santa Fe, NM
2025 BLANK WALL GALLERY Athens, Greece - 3rd Black & White Photography Group Show - opens February 22nd
2025 FotoNostrum Gallery Barcelona, Spain - The 25th Julia Margaret Cameron Award For WomenPhotographers Honorable Mention – ‘Feeling Peace’ series, Women Seen By Women category - Exhibit December 2025
2024 ART Mozaik Fine Art Gallery - Desert Breeze group show - July 1-31st - Santa Fe, NM
2024 Chania Photo Festival – documentary category ‘The Cabin’ – July 22-26th Crete, Greece
2024 FotoNostrum Gallery Barcelona, Spain - The 20th Julia Margaret Cameron Award For WomenPhotographers Honorable Mention – Meditations on White Sands, NM selected, honorable mention
2022 The 17th Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition Women Photographers – Honorable Mention: Grabel portraits selected FotoNostrumGallery Barcelona, Spain 2022 Blank Wall Gallery Athens, Greece MOMENTS OF COLOR show (March) 2022 Blank Wall Gallery Athens, Greece LIFE IN THE PANDEMIC show (Jan) 2021 New Photographers Gallery Sidney, British Columbia FALL show (Dec) 2021 Photo Place Gallery Middlebury, Vermont ESSENTAIL WATER show (Sept) 2021Blank Wall Gallery Athens, Greece ABANDONED BUILDINGS group show 2021Laurent GalleryMelbourne, Australia Global Swap Print show 2020Ceres Gallery Chelsea, New York City, EXPOSURE group show 2019 SITE Santa Fe Santa Fe, New MexicoSECRETS group show 2018 Ceres Gallery Chelsea, New York City EXPOSURE ‘One-person shows by artists with a distinctly personal and unique point of view’
1986 Joan expanded fine art from the canvas to the landscape and created Park Slope Design, a landscape design company designing landscapes that reflect the same adherence to minimalism, often using a single line to create movement and a single color to create mass.
1984 Swope Gallery Los Angeles, CA, group show 1979 Women’s Building, Los Angeles, CA, Solo Exhibition ‘Bodyscapes’ 1978 Space Museum North Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Contemporary California Artists 1977 David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Twelve Female Artists, ‘The Dirty Dozen’ 1976 Richard Mann Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Contemporary Artists
Education: School of Visual Arts, New York City, studied painting with Robert Mangold
NYU New York University, B.S. Art Education
CSLA California State University, Los Angeles, M.A. Art Education
UCLA University of California, Los Angeles, studied Landscape Architecture
