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Joseph Burwell, 1999 MFA

Joseph was born in Iceland in 1970 and raised in southwestern Virginia. He began to study Architecture at Savannah College of Art and Design but changed his major to Studio Arts and received his Bachelor Degree at the College of Charleston in South Carolina in 1993.  Joseph studied Sculpture in the Graduate Program at Tulane University in New Orleans and graduated in 1999.  He taught for 1 year as an Adjunct Professor at both Tulane University and Loyola University before moving to New York City. There he has participated in residencies at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, in the PS 122 Project Studio Program, , in The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Program, and in The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Studio Immersion Project.  Joseph is a 2011 fellow in Drawing/Printmaking/Book Arts.  He has shown in New York, Switzerland, Finland, Norway, Ireland, Egypt, Canada, South Korea, and at different venues across the US. He currently resides and works in his studio in Brooklyn.

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