"I consider myself a metaphysical abstractionist making images which come out of my life experience. The images in my paintings are not only drawn from visual inspiration, but from memory, dreams reverie as well as the intuitive process of painting. I am interested in connecting the poetic image with the painted and in the metaphysical content of the painting" - Joan Thorne

Joan Thorne is a New York-based artist whose work is nationally and internationally recognized. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in New York City, throughout the United States, in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. From 1998 to 2000 She has had three museum retrospective exhibitions in the Caribbean.

Her painting has been included in two Whitney Museum Biennials and various other museum group exhibitions both in the United States, Europe and Latin America.

She has had numerous one person shows in galleries such as: Sideshow Gallery, Fishbach Gallery, New York City, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Willard Gallery, New York City, Graham & Sons Gallery, New York City, and The Clocktower, New York City among others.

In 1986 she was awarded the Prix de Rome Fellowship to paint at the American Academy in Rome. She also received two National Endowment grants for painting and two Pollock Krasner Grants among others.

Solo Exhibits

2013	Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, NY Gallery 125, Bellport, NY
2010	Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, NY
2005	Chris Winfield Gallery, Carmel, CA
2004	Klaus Steinmetz Arte Contemporaneo, San Rafael de Escazu, Costa Rica
2002	Feria de Arte International Arcale, Salamanca, España
2001	Andre Zarre Gallery, New York
2000	Retrospective: Museo Las Americas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1998	A Retrospective: Museo Voluntariado De Las Casas Reales, Casa de Bastidas, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic A Retrospective: Museo Patronato Plaza de la Cultura Santiago Apostol, Santiago, Dominican Republic
1996	Ramapo College, New Jersey
1990 1985	Graham Modern , New York City, NY
1989 1986	Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1986	William Halsey Gallery, Simon Center for the Arts, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
1983	Lincoln Center Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York City, NY Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Island, FL
1982	Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY Willard Gallery, New York City, NY
1980	Willard Gallery, New York Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
1979	The Clocktower: Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York City, NY
1977	Galerie Veith Turske, Cologne Art Fair, Cologne, Germany
1975	Alfred University, Alfred, NY
1974	Fischbach Gallery, New York City, NY
1973	Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Group Exhibitions

2014	ArtHamptons Fair, July 10-13, East Hampton, NY
	Merton D. Simpson Gallery, Group Show of Tribal and Contemporary Art, June 12 - July 28, New York, NY
	"National Arbor Day Show", March 31 to April 26, National Arts Club, New York, NY
2012	Side Show Gallery, Williamsburg, NY
	Art Southampton, International and Contemporary Modern Art Fair, Southampton, New York, Hollis Taggart Galleries
2011	Side Show Gallery, Williamsburg, NY
	Janet Kurnatowsky Gallery, New York
2010	Side Show Gallery, Williamsburg, NY
	Janet Kurnatowsky Gallery, New York
2009	Side Show Gallery, Williamsburg, NY
2007	Side Show Gallery, Williamsburg, NY
2006	Side Show Gallery, Williamsburg, NY
2005	Side Show Gallery, Williamsburg, Brookyn "Works On Paper" Curated by Vared Lieb and Richard Timperio
2003	Biennale Internazionale Dell' Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
2002	Gallery Uno 'Spazio Su Misura, Milan, Italy
2001	"PAINTED: Viewpoints of Recent Developments of Abstract Painting," curated by James Little at the Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Long Island, New York
2000	The Painting Center, New York, "Straight Painting," curated by James Little
1998	R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA, "Illuminated Under White Light" R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1996	Museo Voluntariado de Las Casas Reales, Casa de Bastidas Encuentro", Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic La Galeria, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Guernica Galeria de Arte, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Arawak Arte Conteporaneo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Casa Peynado Galeria, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Makana Gallery, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Techa Galeria, Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic
1995	Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York "News, Surprise and Nostalgia" Corporate Art Directions, "Loan Show Lobby of 909 Third Ave.," New York City
1994	Andre Zarre Gallery, The Exuberant 80s, Andre Zarre Gallery, Through Thick and Thin
1993	Altos de Chavon, "Los Artistas Residentes," Dominican Republic
1991	Andre Emmerich Gallery, "Abstract Painting of the 90's", curated by Barbara Rose. New York Stock Exchange, Invitational Graham Modern, "Selections"
1989	Graham Modern, "Synthesis"
1988	Andre Zarre Gallery, "More Than Color", New York City, NY Graham Modern, "Preview From The Past"
1987	One Penn Plaza, "Romantic Science", New York City NY American Academy in Rome, "American Acad. in Rome Annual Exhibition", 1987 Prix de Rome Paintings, Rome.
1986	Graham Modern, "Diptychs, Triptychs, Polyptychs"
1985	Pam Adler Gallery, "Paintings 1985," New York City, NY The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, "The Art of the 1970's and 1980's", Ridgefield, CT Albright-Knox Art Gallery, "An Affair of the Heart", Buffalo, NY Kamakazie Gallery, "Non-Objective Painting", curated by Stephen Westfall, New York City, NY Graham Modern, "Summer Yellows" College of Charleston, "Charleston Show", Charleston, SC
1984	Visual Arts Museum, "Heroic/Poetic", New York City, NY Sidney Janis Gallery, "American Women Artists", New York City, NY Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY Islip Art Museum, "Emblems of Imagination", curated by Karen Shaw, Islip, NY One Penn Plaza, "Luxe Calme et Volupte: Nine Abstract Artists & Their Use of Color", curated by John Yau, New York City ,NY Weatherspoon Gallery, "Works on Paper", Greensboro, NC Graham Modern, "Small Works/Fine Works"
1983	Jayne Baum Gallery, New York City, NY Judith Christian Gallery, New York City, NY Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, "Painting", Providence, RI
1982	Mattingly Baker Gallery, Dallas (two-person show) N.Y.C.W.C.A., "Abstract Painting: Painting by Women Artists", New York City, NY Guild Hall Museum, "Artists from the Edward F. Albee Foundation", East Hampton, NY Tyler School of Art, "Tyler Visiting Artists '82-83", Temple University, PA
1981	Susan L. Usdan Gallery, "The Broken Surface", Bennington College, VT. Traveled to Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York City, NY; Owens Hall Art Gallery, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia Sidney Janis Gallery, "New Directions", curated by Sam Hunter, New York City, NY Nina Freudenheim Gallery, "Paper Work", Buffalo, NY Whitney Museum of American Art, "1981 Biennial exhibition", New York City, NY
1980	Societe des Artistes Independents, Grand Palais, "L'Amerique Aux Independents", Paris Sidney Janis Gallery, "Seven Young Americans", New York City, NY Landmark Gallery, "Drawings 1980" Guild Hall Museum, "Paper-works for the Serious Collector", East Hampton, NY Ericson Gallery, "U.S. Art '80", New York City, NY Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, "C.A.P.S. Fellow 1979-1980",Troy, NY Douglas Drake Gallery, "New York on Paper", Kansas City
1979	Willard Gallery, New York City, NY Neilson Gallery, "The Implicit Image", Boston Susan Caldwell Gallery, "Generation", NY Grey Art Gallery, "American Paintings: The Eighties", curated by Barbara Rose, New York City, NY. Traveled to The Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; American Cultural Center, Paris Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1978	Willard Gallery, New York City, NY Bronx Museum, O.I.A. Exhibition, Bronx, NY Institute of Contemporary Art, "Eight Abstract Painters", Philadelphia University of Chicago, "Thick Paint", Chicago
1977	Parsons School of Design, "Faculty Show", New York City, NY "SoHo at Montauk", Montauk, New York City, NY "Woman in Art: Working Papers", traveled to Albany, New York City, NY, Texas United States Courthouse, "Paintings", New York City, NY Davidson Art Center, Wesleyan University, "Paintings from the Aldrich Museum Collection", Middletown, CT
1975	Skidmore College, "Drawing Exhibition", Saratoga Springs, NY State University of New York City, NY, "Paintings", Potsdam, NY
1974	Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, "Tenth Anniversary Exhibition", Ridgefield, CT State University of New York City, NY, "Tight and Loose", Potsdam & Albany
1973	New York Institute of Technology, Long Island, NY Loeb Center, New York City, NY University, "Five Painters", NY
1972	Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, "Spring Annual", Ridgefield, CT Whitney Museum of American Art, "Whitney Annual", NY Hamburg Museum, "GEDOK American Women Artists Show" Hamburg, Germany Bard College, "Painting on Paper," Annandale, N

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