Joey_Orr_CV_2023
JOEY ORR, Curriculum Vitae
Research interests: Site specific installation, public scholarship, (post)studio-based research/artistic research, visual studies, curatorial studies
EDUCATION
PhD and Master of Arts, Interdisciplinary Studies, Emory University, Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, Atlanta GA, 2014
Master of Arts, Visual and Critical Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL, 2008
Bachelor of Arts, English/Creative Writing, University of Georgia, Athens GA, 1994
AWARDS
Digital Humanities Fellow, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Kansas, 2020-2021
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2015 to 2017
Arts & Sciences Fellowship, Laney Graduate School, Emory University, 2009 to 2014
Manuel Montoya Graduate Service Award, Institute of the Liberal Arts Committee, Emory University, 2014
National Endowment for the Arts, Southern Constellations Fellowship, Elsewhere Museum, 2013
Allan Bérubé Prize, Committee on LGBT History, American Historical Association, Honorable Mention, 2012
Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue Fellowship, New York, 2011
HASTAC Scholar (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory), 2011
Community Impact Award, Emory Center for Creativity and Arts, 2011
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE (SELECTION)
Spencer Museum of Art (SMA), Black Writing co-curated with Ayesha Hardison, with special blockchain commission with Simon Denny and Stephanie Dinkins, Fall 2023
SMA, Reading the World (Paul Stephen Benjamin, Bethany Collins, Jamal Cyrus, Stephanie Dinkins, Carrie Schneider, Dread Scoot), Fall 2023
SMA, Untitled (Pink Tube), Miller & Shellabarger performance, April 28-29, 2023
SMA, here-ing (Janine Antoni), 2022 to present
SMA, Collective Entanglements (Janet Biggs with Agnieszka Miedlar and Daniel Tapia Takaki), April 2022
SMA, knowledges, August 2019-January 2020
SMA, Social Histories, Adrian Stimson/Buffalo Boy: Resistance is Futile and Tina Takemoto: Queer Histories and the Wartime Incarceration of Japanese Ameicans, October 2018
SMA, Mohau Modisakeng: Passage, August-November 2018
SMA, MacArthur Dialogue: Christopher Beard and Elizabeth Turk, November 2017
SMA, Terra Anima, September-October 2017
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago Works: Chris Bradley, January-June 2017
MCA Chicago, Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination, curatorial lead, October, 2016-January 2017
MCA Chicago, MCA Screen: Camille Henrot, Grosse Fatigue, September-December 2016
MCA Chicago, Chicago Works: Andrew Yang, July-December 2016
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta GA, Exquisite Exhibit: Parlour Games from the Studio Artists Program, September 2014
The JOSH, Arts&Sciences PROJECTS, New York, Guest Curator, John Q Collective Project, 2010
F-news Magazine, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Where is the School? 3-part artist collaboration, February, April, May 2007
Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Serial City, Public Art Project with artist Matt Haffner, October 2006
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA), Atlanta GA, Origins: Andrew Ross Installations, December 2005
MOCA GA, Atlanta GA, The Last Taboo, Exhibition director and essayist, June 2005
Garage Projects-Castleberry Hill Arts District, Atlanta GA, Hormuz Minina: New Interactive Video Installation, April 2005
Atlanta History Center, The Unspoken Past: Atlanta Lesbian and Gay History, 1940-1970, Curator of Oral Histories, 2004 to 2005
MOCA GA, Striking Comparisons: From the Permanent Collection, Co-curator and essayist, 2004
MOCA GA, The Georgia 7: Seven Emerging Artists from the State of Georgia, Co-curator and essayist, 2004
The Project Room, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta GA, Pink Lemonade Itty-bitty, Zane Lewis Installation, 2004
ArtSpot, Atlanta GA, Triple Point, 2002 and 2003
Dekalb County Arts Council’s Temple Gallery, Atlanta GA, Two at the Temple, 2002
The Project Room, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta GA, six bi-monthly installations, 2002
ShedSpace, Founder/Curator, Five-year public intervention project in transitional neighborhoods in the city of Atlanta, collaboration among the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Art Papers, The Museum of Contemporary Art, and local foundations, Atlanta GA, 2000 to 2004
ESSAYS + PUBLICATIONS + EDITORIAL WORK (SELECTION)
Peer-reviewed essays and chapters and books
Antennae: Journal of Art & Nature, “Where We Find Ourselves: A Conversation Between Janine Antoni and Joey Orr,” Issue 60, 2023, forthcoming.
Routledge Press, A Sourcebook of Performance Labor: Activators, Activists, Archives, All, Routledge Press, 2023
Leonardo, “How to Do Things with SVD: mathematical tool-sharing from physics to performative research,” co-author with Clint Hurshman, MIT Press, Volume 55, Issue 5, October 2022
Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry, “Room Tone,” Vol 2, No 3, 2021
PARSE Journal, “A Constructed Situation and a Cotton Banner,” Issue 13.2, On the Question of Exhibition, Summer 2021
Antennae: Journal of Art & Nature, “An Interview with Paul Harfleet,” Issue 52, 2020
Journal of American Studies, “We rode a train to write this essay,” John Q co-author, Cambridge University Press, Vol. 52, Issue 4, December 2018
Journal of American Studies, “Radical View of Freedom: Interview with Dread Scott,” Cambridge University Press, Vol. 52, Issue 4, December 2018
Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture, “Jewish Tactics and Memorial Spacemaking: Lisa Alembik’s Murder Ballads,” Brill, Vol. 11, Issue 1, December 2018
Palgrave Macmillan, “Collecting Social Things,” Clarifying the Rhetoric Surrounding Social Value and the Arts, 2017
Art & the Public Sphere, “Interview with Suzanne Lacy,” Intellect, Vol. 6, Numbers 1 & 2, 2017
Visual Methodologies: A Postdisciplinary Journal, “Participatory Research and Visual Methods,” co-author with Sarah Franzen, Research Methods Lab, Switzerland, v.4 (1) 2016
QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, “The Campaign for Atlanta: an act of research,” John Q co-author, Michigan State University Press, June 2014
Emotion, Space & Society “Feeling the Archives,” journal of the Society for Study of Emotion, Affect, and Space, 5 (2012), 186-191
Southern Spaces, “Discursive Memorials,” John Q co-author, Emory University, southernspaces.org, February 26, 2010
Editorial Work
Art Papers, Contributing Editor, Atlanta GA, 2021 to present
GroundWorks, Editorial Board, Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), 2019 to present
Inquiries, Editor, Integrated Arts Research Initiative, Spencer Museum of Art, November 2019
GroundWorks, Conference Edition Editor, Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), 2019
Journal of American Studies, Special Issue Co-Editor, “Inhabiting Cultures,” Cambridge University Press, Vol. 52, Issue 4, December 2018
Visual Methodologies: A Postdisciplinary Journal, Issue Co-Editor, “Participatory Research,” Research Methods Lab, Switzerland, 2016
Journal for Artistic Research, Associate Editor, Bern, Switzerland, 2011 to 2015
Art Papers, Editorial Advisory Board, Atlanta GA, 2006 to 2011
The JOSH (Journal of Sexual Homos), Guest Editor, John Q Collective Project, Arts & Sciences PROJECTS, New York, 2010
Visual/Critical Studies Symp., School of the Art Institute/Chicago, Co-Curator/Web Ed., Invented Archives + Historical Creativity, 2008
Atlanta Celebrates Photography Public Art Project, Serial City, Video Producer, October 2006
Exhibition catalogue essays
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL, “Chicago Works: Chris Bradley,” January 2017
MCA Chicago, Chicago IL, “Chicago Works: Andrew Yang,” July 2016
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA), Atlanta GA, “Gregor Turk’s Geographic Practice,” 2012 Working Artist Projects exhibition catalogue, 2012
Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, “The Social Life of Pam Longobardi’s Drifters,” Packet-Soup catalogue essay, April 2012
The Works International Visual Arts Society, Alberta, Canada, “Future Perfect: Tina Martel’s Evolution,” catalogue essay, July 2011
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA), Atlanta GA, “Genesis Traveler,” 2007/2008 Working Artist Projects exhibition catalogue, 2008
MOCA GA, Atlanta GA, The Georgia 7 exhibition catalogue essayist, 2004
Criticism+Interviews+Commentary
Art Papers, “Building Something Now–An Interview with Stephanie Dinkins,” May 2023
PLAT Journal, “We Listen with Our Steps, the Land Speaks,” co-authored with Janine Antoni, Rice Architecture, Issue 11, 2022
BOMB, “The Time and Space of Isolation: Diana Thater Interviewed by Joey Orr,” October 30, 2020
Art Papers, “Absurdity is a Protest: A Conversation with Lilly McElroy,” Summer 2020
Art Papers, “COVID 19 the #PPE we all need: In Conversation with Szu-Han Ho,” Summer 2020
Art Journal Open, Pedagogies, “Social Histories: An Inquiry from the Integrated Arts Research Initiative,” co-author with Imani Wadud, Pedagogies in College Art Association, April 18, 2019
Journal for Artistic Research, Network Reflections, “Curating for Research,” September 5, 2018
Hyperallergic, “Ambivalent Steward (What Do You Do When a Project You Curate is Censored By the State?),” Friday, August 17, 2018
MCA Magazine, “Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination,” Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Fall 2016
Art Papers, “SeedsInService + Eco-Feminisms,” May/June 2016
MCA Magazine, “Andrew Yang and Diana Thater: Experiencing the Natural World,” MCA Chicago, Summer 2016
MCA Magazine, “MCA Screen: Phil Collins,” MCA Chicago, Winter/Spring 2016
Sculpture, “Review: Scott Ingram’s Blue Collar Modernism at MOCA GA,” January/February 2015
National Center for Civil and Human Rights, “Vulnerability and Human Rights,” Community Voices blog, November 7, 2013
Temporary Art Review, “Outer Regions: Complex Models,” coauthor/conference report, April 25, 2013
BURNAWAY, “Art Under the Oddest Circumstances,” burnaway.org, July 24, 2012
Art Papers, “Claire Culture: Milford Thomas and the Public Work of Filmmaking,” May/June 2012
ArtsATL, “The Dark Side of Motherhood in Morning Sun,” ArtsATL.com, January 18, 2012
BURNAWAY, “Grad School Confidential,” November 2, 2011
The Voice of the Arts, WMLB AM1690, Atlanta GA, Allan Sekula Interview, in collaboration with Sylvie Fortin, November 29, 2011
BURNAWAY, “Anya Liftig and Atlanta Poets: Experiments in Emptiness,” July 1, 2010
BURNAWAY, “VD at the Center for Disease Control Museum,” March 17, 2010
The JOSH, Arts&Sciences PROJECTS, NY, “Check Out These Guns: Nathaniel Fink in conversation with Joey Orr,” December 2009
ArtsATL, “Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South, a book and a performance,” September 2009
The JOSH, Arts&Sciences PROJECTS, New York, “Queer Pictures,” Spring 2009
The Gay & Lesbian Review/Worldwide (formerly The Harvard G&L Review), Boston MA, “Mary Coble’s Body,” September-October 2007
F-news Magazine, Chicago IL: School of the Art Institute of Chicago,Reviews: Kehinde Wiley and Josh Mannis, October 2006
The Gay & Lesbian Review/Worldwide, Boston MA, “Art Memo: Fly on the Web, When Performance Goes Online,” January-February 2006
Art Press Projects
BURNAWAY, “unmonumentATL,” Atlanta GA, January 2014
Possible Press, Volume 3, Issue 1, “The Queer and the Uncanny,” Philadelphia PA, January 2013
Port Silver Press, Poet’s Ghost, artist book, Tuscaloosa AL, 2003
LECTURES + SYMPOSIA + CONFERENCES
Conference paper presentations
ARTspace, NY, Panel: Art Happens: Beyond the Silos, Institutional Proximity, February 2017
College Art Assoc, Washington D.C., Panel: The Institutionalization of Social Practice, Collecting Social Things, February 2016
College Art Assoc, NY, Panel: Beyond Good+Bad: Practice-Derived Epistemologies of Studio Critique, Expanding the Critique, Feb 2013
Assoc. of Amer. Geographers, Washington, D.C., Panel: Practice+Emotional Geographies, Queer Domestic Space+Vital Affect, April 2010
Emory Studies in Sexualities Program, Queer Visibility Conference, Queer Publics + Two Instances of Public Art, January 2010
School of the Art Inst of Chicago, George Roeder Master’s Symposium, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago IL, Desire Palace, May 2008
Feeling American Studies, NY Metro American Studies Assoc., Columbia University, NY, Panel: Archives of Feeling, Reading Transtemporal Desire in the Archive, November 2007
TRANS: Visual Culture Conference, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Panel: Queer Tactics, Nontrip: Road to the Spiral Jetty, October 2006
Spaces of Sexualities, Queer Working Group of the Royal Geographical Society and Institute of British Geographers, University of Brighton, England, Panel: Cultural and Textual Spaces of Sexual and Gendered Difference, Non-Trip: Road to the Spiral Jetty, August 2006
Conference organizer or panel organizer/chair
Spencer Museum of Art, Performing Couples, Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens and Miller & Shellabarger, April 29, 2023
College Art Association, Chicago, knowledges 2-session panel chair “knowledges: Artistic Practice as Method” and “Crafting knowledges: Approaches through Botany, Climate, and Multispecies Interactions,” February 2020
Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), University of Kansas, knowledges: Artistic Practice as Method, November 2019
International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Emory University, Off Center: Art Writing From the Regions, Keynote: Lindsay Pollock, Editor-in-Chief, Art in America, conference organizer, 2012
Queer Worlds and Global Positions Conference, Emory University, Studies in Sexualities, panel moderator, January 2011
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta GA, Art in Research/Research in Art, panel chair/moderator, November 2010
Visual Culture Caucus Special Session, College Art Association, LA CA, Queer Pictures, Panel Chair/Moderator, February 2009
Vis and Crit Master’s Symposium, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL, Keynote: Irit Rogoff, conference chair, May 2008
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Artist Success Stories, panel moderator, May 2005
Panel or roundtable discussant
The 8th Floor, Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation (New York), “Voices of Performance Labor,” with Dread Scott, Kyle Carrero Lopez, and Rudy Gerson, May 9, 2023
Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), “Work in Progress: A Ground Works Art-Science Panel Discussion,” May 4, 2022
Campus BioTech Geneva, “Collective Entanglements,” in conjunction with Barbara Polla’s exhibition anni horribles, March 29, 2022
Museum Computer Network (MCN), 2021 Annual Conference, “Virtual Exhibition Strategy: Leveraging digital to highlight new voices and expanded content,” October 7, 2021
Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), 2021 RAI Film Festival, “A Conversation with the Visual Scholarship Initiative,” March 20, 2021
Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), 2020 National Conference, “Ground Works Session: Dear Arts-Integration Community: A Letter of Interest from the CERN-IARI Collaboration,” October 28, 2020
Art Papers, Founding Stories: Oral Histories of Grassroots Atlanta, “2000s,” October 17, 2020
International Council of Fine Arts Deans, “Evaluating Faculty Engaging in Interdisciplinary Activities, Arts Integration, Community Engagement, and Public Research,” October 1, 2020
College Art Association, New York, “Not Your Typical Residency: Artists and the Research Institute,” Integrating Art and Research in Hybrid Collaborative Inquiries, February 2019
Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), Boston, Arts in the Public Sphere: Civility, Advocacy, and Engagement, panelist for “Identifying and Building Communities through Interdisciplinary Collaboration,” November 2017
College Art Association, NY, “Artists as Museum Workers,” February 2017
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, A Space Program screening and conversation with Tom Sachs, October 13, 2016
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Conversations on Art and Science, discussion and roundtable with Andrew Yang and Lucianne Walkowicz, forthcoming October 2016
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 150th Anniversary Academic Symposium, discussion and roundtable, forthcoming April 2016
Museum of Modern Art/Columbia University/French Institute Alliance Française, “Other Durations” and “Unruly Bodies,” Afterlives: The Persistence of Performance, organized by Adrian Heathfield and André Lepecki, Crossing the Line festival, September 26-27, 2015
Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, Emory University, Experiments in Scholarly Form, December 2, 2013
Tanz Farm, FEED conversation series, If we had a conversation about performance, what would it look like?, October 29, 2013
Department of Art and Design, East Tennessee State University, Outer Regions symposium, February 28-March 3, 2013
Woodruff Memorial Arts Center, Art and Activism, panelist for WondeRoot’s Walthall Artist Fellowship talk, January 5, 2013
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Collaborative Memory, John Q panel with EG Crichton and Barbara McBane, October 20, 2012
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Archive Action, John Q practice-led panel, August 30, 2012
National Queer Arts Festival, GLBT History Museum, San Francisco CA, Collaborative Practice & the Future of Memory, June 2012
Southern American Studies Assoc. Biennial, Atlanta GA, Public Scholarship: What Public? Whose Scholarship? Panelist, February 2011
Institute of Liberal Arts Colloquium, Emory University, Public Scholarship: What Public? Whose Scholarship?, September 2010
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Really, Really Alternative Spaces, 2006
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Creating Alternative Space, 2003
Lectures and artist talks
Collaborative Arts Research Initiative, “Place-based, Artistic Research at the Field Station,” University of Alabama, September 13, 2022
Institute for Policy and Social Research, “Research and Working with the Spencer Museum of Art,” University of Kansas, February 7, 2020
Amsden Award Guest Lecture, Kress Foundation Department of Art History, University of Kansas, May 3, 2019
Vermont College of Fine Art, “Curatorial and Artistic Practice as Method,” January 28, 2019
Up Close, Integrated Arts Research Initiative (IARI), Spencer Museum of Art, Curator’s Talk: Terra Anima, October 2017
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Curator’s Talk with Giovanni Aloi: On Diana Thater, November 8, 2016
MCA Chicago, Gallery talk with Diana Thater and Michael Darling, October29, 2016
PARSE and Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, Curatorial Lecture: Art and Research, September 16, 2016
MCA Chicago, Curator’s Talk: On Andrew Yang, September 13, 2016
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Visual and Critical Studies Distinguished Alumni Lecture, October 27, 2015
University of Memphis, “Socially Engaged Memorials and the Question of Form in Research,” October 2, 2014
Georgia State University, ExLucis, “Thinking through Activisms,” November 6, 2013
Elsewhere Museum, Charlotte NC, Convergence, Artist talk, November 2, 2013
Elsewhere Museum, Charlotte NC, Constellations and Conversations, Artist talk, June 13, 2013
Journal for Artistic Research, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Netherlands, Editor’s Report: Taking the Book Apart, February 2012
Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design, Georgia State University, Artist talk, February 2012 and April 2012
The Center on Halstead, Chicago IL, Contemporary Queer Pictures, lecture, October 2007
Atlanta College of Art, Space Informs Perception/History of Installation & Non-Commodity, lecture, Spring, Fall 2004, Fall 2005
Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design, Georgia State University, Art-in-Community & Alternative Spaces, lecture, 2002 to 2003
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Affiliate Faculty, Institute for Policy and Social Research, Museum Studies, and Department of Visual Art, University of Kansas, Spring 2019 to present
Spring 2023, Arts Research Integration, cross-listed course with Visual Art, Museum Studies, Art History, and Anthropology
Spring 2019, knowledges: Artistic Practice as Method, Visual Art and Museum Studies cross-listed course (ART 500 + MUSE 780)
Visiting Instructor School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fall 2016
Fall 2016, Visual Scholarship, Visual and Critical Studies and Social Science cross-listed course (VCS 5010, ARTHI 5060)
Artist-Teacher Vermont College of Fine Art, Spring 2012-present
Spring 2019, Visiting artist critiques (MFA-V)
Summer 2013, Visiting artist critiques (MFA-V)
Spring 2013, Low Residency Regional Critique and Consultation (MFA-V)
Spring 2012, Low Residency Regional Critique and Consultation (MFA-V)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Art, University of Memphis, Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Spring 2015, Social Practice in Contemporary Art (Art History 4039/6039)
Spring 2015, Contemporary Art Theory and Criticism (Art History 4030/6030)
Spring 2015, Fall 2014, World Art II (Art History 2000)
Instructor Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design, Georgia State University, Fall 2005-Spring 2014
Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2012, Survey of Western Modern Art for Studio Majors (Art History 2000)
Fall 2012, Public Practice in Contemporary Art (Art History 4800/6800)
Fall 2005, Student Instructor with Dr. Susan Richmond, 20th Century Painting and Sculpture (Art History 4610/6610)
Instructor Visual Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, Emory University, Spring 2011-Spring 2012
Spring 2012, Visual Scholarship (IDS 216, cross-listed with Visual Arts)
Fall 2011, Introduction to Visual Culture (IDS 216, cross-listed with Visual Arts)
Spring 2011, Student Teacher, Senior Seminar and Studio (Visual Arts 490)
Instructor School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Spring 2007-Fall 2008
Fall 2008, Visualizing Aggression, Visual and Critical Studies and Social Science cross-listed course (VCS 3001, SOCSCI 3522)
Spring 2007-Spring 2008, Student Instructor with Dr. Robert Kiely, History of Ideas (SOCSCI 3521)
RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS (SELECTION)
Touching Photographs, University of Chicago Press 2012, Dr. Margaret Olin, Department of Art History, Yale University
Thinking in Place, Paradigm 2009, Dr. Carol Becker, Dean of Faculty, School of the Arts, Columbia University
EXHIBITIONS + COLLECTIONS + RESIDENCIES
Collaborative Projects
University Galleries, University of North Carolina A&T State College, Greensboro, Southern Constellations, January 2019
GLBT History Museum, San Francisco, Out/Look and the Birth of the Queer, Errata, John Q, October 2017-January 2018
Allcott Gallery, Univ. of North Carolina Chapel Hill, A 3 Year Retrospective of Southern Constellations, John Q, October-November 2015
Artspace, Raleigh, NC, Expanding the Constellation: Elsewhere at Artspace, John Q installation, September-October 2015
Crosstown Arts, Memphis, you + me, March 2015
Holman Arts and Media Center, Embodied Place: Observations and Notations, John Q installation, Interdisciplinary Arts/Sierra Nevada College, January-February 2015
Smith Gallery, Appalachia State University, Southern Constellations: Selections from Elsewhere Museum’s curatorial initiative supporting experimental art practice in the South, October-November, 2014, Untitled (Books), John Q installation
Zuckerman Museum of Art, Hearsay, July-October, 2014
Take Me With You, John Q installation
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, 9/50 Summit, June 2014
Untitled (Books), John Q installation
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, LA Art Book Fair, January 2014
The JOSH (Journal of Sexual Homos), Issue 3 (guest edited by John Q)
Atlanta Cyclorama, May 17-18, 2013
The Campaign for Atlanta: an essay on queer migration, John Q project
Georgia Institute of Technology, WREK, December 18-21, 2011
Midnight Bill, broadcast collaboration with Chris Campbell using Radio Data System technology
Outwrite, Atlanta GA, February 23, 2011
Policing Ourselves, John Q public performance
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, October 2010-January 2011
Discursive Documents: Performing the Catalogue, John Q project
Eyedrum Art&Music Gallery, Atlanta GA, May-June 2010
MondoPotato, John Q project, MondoHomo City Stories group exhibition
Flux Projects, Atlanta GA, April 2010
Memory Flash, John Q public intervention series
Kibbee Gallery, Atlanta GA, March 2010
Breakfast for Bill, John Q happening
Group Exhibitions
Mint Gallery, Atlanta GA, March-April 2014
Sumptuary, curated by Maggie Ginestra and Mike Stasny
705 Space, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL, April 2013
Visual and Critical Studies Accreditation Exhibit
Vargas Museum, Quezon City, Philippines, November 2011-January 2012
Nothing to Declare, curated by EG Crichton
Ernest G. Welch Gallery, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA, July 2010
Southern Art?, curated by Ben Goldman and Teresa Bramlette Reeves
Alogon Gallery, Chicago IL May to June 2008
Discipline Problems, curated by Joseph Grigely
Residencies
Elsewhere Museum, 2013
Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences, 2001
Collections
Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro NC, Untitled (Books), installation, 2013
Manuscripts and Rare Books Library (MARBL) Collection, Emory University, Fostering Interdisciplinary Scholarship and Teaching, agitprop project 2012
Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, “Remember Me, Forget Me,” The JOSH, Issue 3, Fall 2010, 2011
FURTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Mellon Curator for Research and Director, Arts Research Integration, Spencer Museum of Art, Affiliate faculty Museum Studies and the Department of Visual Art, University of Kansas, 2017 to present
Founding director of the Arts Research Integration that engages researchers across the university, as well as national and international scholars and contemporary artists, in hybrid and collaborative projects with the museum. Designed, structured, and endowed the program. Teaching graduate level seminars.
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2015 to 2017
Curated four exhibitions and associated programming in two-year tenure. Curatorial lead for Emerge collection group. Collaborated on design and test for digital museum space that would make exhibition research accessible to the public.
Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Art, University of Memphis, 2014 to 2015
Taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Art History, Theory and Criticism and Social Practice. Served the department through gallery committee, faculty search committee, and MA and MFA thesis committees.
Assistant Curator/Education/Development Officer The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA), 2003 to 2005
Researched and curated exhibitions, programmed for museum education, and fundraised & educational programming for ½ million dollar annual operating budget
Nonprofit Consultant, Georgia Center for Nonprofits, 2002 to 2006
Director of Programming, New Manchester Cultural Alliance, 1998 to 2003
Responsible for programming and providing support to the Cultural Director
RELATED WORK
Board & Committee Service
The Commons, Advisory Committee, 2022 to present, program participant ongoing
Institute for Digital Research and Humanities, University of Kansas, Advisory Committee 2018 to present
Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, Education Research Center Advisory Committee, 2015
WonderRoot, Walthall Fellowship, Artist Mentor, 2013-2014
Institute of the Liberal Arts Committee, Emory University, 2011-2012
Visual Scholarship Initiative (founding president, 2010), Emory University, 2010 to 2014
Artist In Residence International (AIRI), Atlanta artist exhibition, Selection Juror, GALLERY twenty-four, Berlin, 2006
Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Public Art Committee, Open Ended Group, 2005
Metro Atlanta Arts & Culture Coalition (MAACC), Arts & Business Leaders Council, 2004 to 2005
Art Papers, Board Trustee 2002 to 2006 (Board Vice President, 2003 to 2005); Lecture Series + Program Chair
Alliance of Artists’ Communities, National Patron’s Committee, 2001 to 2002
Ballroom Studios, Atlanta/Brooklyn artist collective, Original Board Trustee, 2000 to 2001
Funding Review Panels
Charlotte Street Foundation, Annual Visual Artist Award, 2017
Georgia Council for the Arts (NEA fund distribution), Visual Arts, site visitor and panelist, 2005 and 2006
Alternate ROOTS, All Disciplines/ Visual Arts Representative, 2004
Forward Arts Foundation, Emerging Artist Award Studio Reviewer and Panelist, 2003 to 2006
City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs, Visual Arts, 2002 to 2004 (Panel Chair, 2003)
FUNDING
Exhibitions at the Spencer Museum of Art have been funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and private donors.
International Travel Fund award, Office of International Programs, University of Kansas
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2015-present
Laney Graduate School Arts and Sciences Fellowship, Emory University, 2009-2014
LUBO Fund, Project Support, 2004, 2010, 2013
Emory University, Center for Faculty Development and Excellence, Classroom Grant, 2012
Emory University, Graduate Student Council Travel and Research Grant, 2012
Flux Projects, Project Funding, Atlanta GA, 2010
Lloyd E. Russell Foundation, Public Art Project Support, Atlanta GA, 2010
Emory Center for Creativity and Arts, Project Grant, Atlanta GA, 2010
Laney Graduate School Travel Grant, Emory University, 2010, 2011
Visual and Critical Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Research/Travel Grants, Chicago IL, 2006, 2007, 2008
BIBLIOGRAPHY + PRESS + OTHER COVERAGE (SELECTION)
Sugarcane, “Exploring the Power of Language: Black Writing Exhibition at Spencer Museum of Art Showcases the Intersection of Visual Art and Literature,” May 11, 2023
Harvard Law Today, “metaLAB Exhibition in Kansas Centers Voices of Formerly Incarcerated Women,” Rachel Reed, November 29, 2022
The Art Section, “Joey Orr on his book A Sourcebook of Performance Labor with Philip Auslander,” November 2022
Arts at CERN, “Cross-culture Collaboration at CERN and the Spencer Museum,” 02 September 2022, Interviews.
Chronicle of Philanthropy, “Spencer Museum receives endowment,” July 25, 2022
Art Daily, “Spencer Museum of Art receives $3 million gift for arts research,” July 21, 2022.
artnet, Art Industry News: “Spencer Museum of Art gets $3 million for arts research,” July 21, 2022.
Lawrence Journal-World, “Spencer Museum of Art receives $3 million dollar gift to make artists a bigger part of university research,” July 20, 2022.
KCUR, NPR in Kanas City, “A $3 million gift to KU’s Spencer Museum aims to help artists and researchers answer ‘big questions,’” Laura Spencer, July 20,2022.
Journal for Artistic Research‘s Network Reviews, “Review”Inquiries,” James Pepper Kelly, December 27, 2020.
International Open Access Week, “A Silvan Tomkins Handbook: A Conversation with Elizabeth Wilson, Adam Frank, and Joey Orr,” October 19-25, 2020
Socially Engaged Art History and Beyond: Alternative Approaches to the Theory and Practice of Art History, “Curating to Remember Injustice,” by Aileen June Wang, Palgrave MacMillan, 2020
Kansas Public Radio, “New Exhibition at KU’s Spencer Museum Focuses on Knowledge,” Rex Buchanan, September 27, 2019
Kansas Alumni Magazine, “The Art of Science (And Vice Versa),” Chris Lazzarino, Issue 5, 2019
Lawrence Journal-World, “KU Common Work of Art Explores Connection between US-Haiti History,” Dylan Lysen, September 9, 2018
The Chronicle of Higher Education, “2 Museums Want to Spark Dialogue with Provocative Art. They’re Handling That Very Carefully,” Claire Hansen, July 26, 2018
KCUR (Kansas Public Radio), “Lawrence’s Spencer Museum of Art Defends Freedom of Expression, Continues To Display Flag,” Laura Spencer, July 13, 2018
Kansas City Star, “Public art or desecration? Ire from governor and others bring down a flag at KU,” Kathy Bergen, July 11, 2018
The Topeka Capital-Journal, “Founder of the ‘Pansy Project’ visits KU to spread awareness against homophobia,” Savannah Maue, April 7, 2018
Lawrence Journal-World, “British artist who plants pansies at sites of homophobic abuse brings his project to Lawrence,” Joanna Hilavacek, April 8, 2018
New York Times Lens: Photography, Video, and Visual Journalism, “Whiteness and Race, Between the Storms,” Maurice Berger, August 11, 2016
The Reel in the Closet, documentary film, Interrobang Productions, dir. Stu Maddux, 2015
Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites, Susan Ferentinos (Lanham, Boulder, New York, and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015).
Zuckerman Museum of Art, John Q Projects: 2009-2010, catalogue of works, essays by Jonathan D. Katz and Shawn Michelle Smith, 2014
Burnaway, “Exquisite Exhibit: An Exercise in Collaboration at ACAC,” Sherri Caudell, October 9, 2014
Burnaway, “Hearsay Casts Wide Net at Zuckerman Museum,” Meredith Kooi, September 30, 2014
ArtsATL, “Review: Lively “exquisite corpses” in paint, video and sculpture from the Contemporary’s studio artists,” Jerry Cullum, September 29, 2014
WABE: Atlanta’s NPR Station, “The Unconscious Personality of ACAC’s Exquisite Exhibit,” Myke Johns, September 15, 2014
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “A lot to unpack in this group show about untold Southern narratives,” Felicia Feaster, September 11, 2014
ArtsATL, “Zuckerman Museum’s Hearsay, a contemporary spin on Southern storytelling, sets high bar,” Jerry Cullum, August 13, 2014
The Mid America Print Council Journal, “Art and Social Practice,” Traci Molloy, Fall/Winter 2013
Creative Loafing, “Best Repurposing of an Atlanta Venue,” staff pic/Best of Atlanta 2013, September 19-25, 2013
Bad at Sports: Contemporary Art Talk, “Experiencing Medium(s), Archiving Medium(s): John Q’s The Campaign for Atlanta: An Essay on Queer Migration,” Meredith Kooi, June 27, 2013
Huffpost Gay Voices, “John Q Explores ‘Queer Migration,’ Screening Crawford Barton Films at Atlanta Cyclorama,” Sally Hansell, May 23, 2013
ArtsATL, “In an unlikely place, John Q limns ‘Queer Migration,’ with an eerie final twist,” Andrew Alexander, May 22, 2013
Burnaway, “John Q Presents The Campaign for Atlanta, at Historic Cyclorama,” Rachel Reese, May 15, 2013
GA Voice, “John Q Collective uses Cyclorama as metaphor for LGBT migration,” Dyana Bagby, May 10, 2013
Creative Loafing, “John Q to take over Cyclorama in May,” Wyatt Williams, Fresh Loaf, April 23, 2013
History@Work, National Council on Public History, “Embodying the Archive: An interview with Wesley Chenault, Andy Ditzler, Joey Orr, and Julia Brock,” Julia Brock, April 5, 2013
ArtsATL, “John Q focuses on bringing Atlanta’s forgotten gay and lesbian history back to life,” Andrew Alexander, August 28, 2012
Possible Futures, “Between Genius Loci and Noplaceness: Atlanta Art and the Landscape of Contemporary Life,” Hugo Fortes, 2012
Radio World, “WREK Beefs Up RDS, HD Text Display for Special Program,” Leslie Stimson, December 21, 2011
Creative Loafing Atlanta, “Midnight Bill concludes tonight on WREK,” Wyatt Williams, Culture Surfing, December 21, 2011
NOPLACENESS, “Out in Public: Recent Moves in Art in Public Space,” Cathy Fox, Atlanta Art Now, Possible Futures Fnd, November 2011
Artforum, “Artadia Awards Announces Atlanta’s 2011 Winners,” November 11, 2011
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “Artists Share $45,000,” Howard Pousner, Arts, November 3, 2011
Public Art Review, “Memorial Reconceived,” Cinqué Hicks, Fall/Winter 2010
ArtsATL, “Looking Back,” Catherine Fox, December 27, 2010
Burnaway, “Our Favorite Things,” Jeremy Abernathy/Danielle Roney, December 24, 2010
Burnaway, “Art Crush: Participation Can Be Political,” Susannah Darrow + Laura Henninghausen, November 25, 2010
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “Exhibit highlights artists from inside out,” Catherine Fox, November 12, 2010
Creative Loafing Atlanta, “Art Seen: Within State Lines and Discursive Documents at MOCA GA,” Wyatt Williams, October 14, 2010
Creative Loafing Best of Atlanta 2010, “Best Public Art Performance: John Q’s Memory Flash,” September 23, 2010
Creative Loafing Atlanta, “Gay Atlanta Remembered: John Q Collective Goes Public with Memory Flash,” Wyatt Williams, March 30, 2010
Public Art Review, “Photographic Practice,” Cathy Byrd, Spring/Summer 2007
Art in America, “Origin: Andrew Ross Installations,” Rebecca Dimling-Cochran, October 2006
Creative Loafing Best of Atlanta 2006, Origin: Andrew Ross Installations, Critic’s Pick-Best Museum Exhibit, October 2006
Sculpture Magazine, “Atlanta: Andrew Ross, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia,” Jerry Cullum, July/August 2006
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “Year In Culture: Top 10 Art Shows,” Catherine Fox, January 1, 2006
Contemporary magazine, London, “News-Atlanta,” Cathy Byrd, Issue 62, 2004
Creative Loafing Atlanta, “The Year in Culture: Visual Arts Top 10 Art Shows,” Felicia Feaster, December 25, 2003
Art Papers, “Reviews: Southeast-Atlanta,” Jerry Cullum, January/February 2002
ARTnews, “City Focus: Atlanta,” Jerry Cullum, December 2002
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