Education

2002     MFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

1997     MA, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA

1995     BA, Art History & Sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Solo Exhibitions

2007     “Sick-Amour”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

2006     "Searching for the Impossible: Digging, Flying and Diving", Gallery Saintonge, Missoula,

                    Montana

2005     "Seven Attempts to Make a Ritual", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, project space

            “The Underwater Project:  Turning Myself Into Music”, Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery,

                  University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

           "The Underwater Project: Turning Myself Into Music", Adamski Gallery, Aachen,

                   Germany

2004     "The Underwater Project: Turning Myself Into Music", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles

                   Projects, Culver City, CA

             “Searching For The Impossible: The Flying Project”, Susanne Vielmetter Los

                   Angeles Projects

2003     “Searching For The Impossible”, Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany

1999     “Spiritual Anxiety: 31 Rats & 15 Doves”, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA

Group Exhibitons

2007      "The New Authentics: Contemporary Artists of the post-Jewish Generation", catalogue,

                    Spertus Museum, Chicago, curated by Staci Boris

2006      “Sick-Amour; a preview”, “Artini Shorts 2006”, Missoula Art Museum, MT, curated by

                    Toni Matlock

             “Happy Believers”, 7th Werkleitz Biennial, Volkspark, Halle, Germany, curated by Anke

                    Hoffmann, Solvej Ovesen, Angelika Richter and Jan Schuijren

             “Eco Lux: Art in the Light of Ecology”, Lightbox, Los Angeles

             Werkleitz Biennale, Werkleitz Gesellschaft, Halle, Germany

2005      "The Gravity in Art", De Appel Centre For Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

                    Curated by Rene Daalder and Theo Tegelaers with Bas Jan Ader, Vito Acconci, Chris

                    Burden, Bruce Nauman, Fiona Tan, and Sam Taylor-Wood

             “Still, Things Fall From The Sky”, University of California Riverside / California Museum of

                    Photography, Curated by Ciara Ennis, catalog

2004      "The California Biennial", Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA , curated

                    by Liz Armstrong and Irene Hoffman, catalog "Video Lounge", ArtBasel Miami Beach,

                    Miami, FL

2003     “Light and Spaced Out: 11 Artists From Los Angeles, Loevenbruck

                    Gallery,Paris, France and the Centre d’Art Passerelle, Brest, France,

                    Curated by Carlos Cardenas.

            “Works on Paper by Gallery Artists”, Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany.

            “Enter Intercessor”, RAID Projects, Los Angeles, California.  Curated by Carrie         

                    Patterson.

2002     “Stuff From L.A. and Other Places”, Christine Konig Gallery, Vienna, Austria.  Curated

                    by Skip Arnold.

            “To Believe Much More Than That”, Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.

1999     “Convergence:  A National Juried Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Memorial Hall Center

                    for the Arts, Wilmington, VT.  Juried by Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, Senior Curator at the

                    DeCordova Museum andSculpture Park.

1998     “1998 National Juried Exhibition”, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI.  Juried by John

            Udvardy, Sculptor and Professor of Art at Rhode Island School of Design.

            “New Art ’98:  National Juried Exhibition”, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA.  Juried by  

            Helaine Posner, Curator at

            M.I.T.’s List Visual Arts Center.

            “Art in the Yard:  Outdoor Sculpture Show ‘98”, Hole in the Wall Studio Works,

            Raymond, ME.

1996     “Cybermama”, The Artscape Gallery, Boston, MA

1995     Outdoor Sculpture Installation, Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT

Bibliography

2006     Gray, Emma, “L.A. Confidential”, artnet, August 21

            www.vvork.com, August

            Werkleitz Biennale (exhibition catalogue), Werkleitz Gesellschaft, Halle, Germany

            Bokern, Anneke, “Bedingungsloser Körpereinsatz”, Artnet.com, January 19

2005     de Vries, Marina, “Indrukwekkende ‘poging tot vliegen’”, De Volkskrant,

                     www.volkskrant.nl/kunst December 21

            “On Stage”, USC Chronicle, August 29

            Villasenor, Michael, “Water world of music”, Daily Trojan, August 24

            Newhouse, Kristina, “Experiencing the California Biennial”, X-Tra, Spring Issue, Vol.7,

            Tumlir, Jan, "California Biennial", Artforum, pg. 168

2004     Hart, Hugh, "Into it for the shock of his life - Joel Tauber tries to jolt himself into seeing

                  his place on Earth. In his art he flies, dives, dares", Los Angeles Times, December 25

            "Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects presents JOEL TAUBER: The Underwater Project;

                  Turning Myself Into Music", re-title.com, December 24

            Knight, Christopher, "Staking a claim for an idiom of Los Angeles", Los AngelesTimes,

                  November 26

            Pincus, Robert, "Tuning in to the O.C.:'Biennial' belly laughs", San Diego Union Tribune,

                  November 7

            Knight, Christopher, "Biennial arrives, and so does a museum", Los Angeles Times, Oct.13

            Chang, Richard, "The art of the new", Orange County Register, October 10

            Walsh, Daniella, “Orange Blossoms”, Riviera, September Issue

            Simon, Jane, "Joel Tauber", 2004 California Biennial catalogue, pg 112 – 115

            Kraus, Chris, “Cast Away”, Video Green:  Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness,

                  pg 149-150. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e),

2003     Ouest, Cote, “Des Anges De 30 Ans”, Nova Magazine June 2003

            “Light and Spaced Out”, Vogue: Paris May 2003.

            “From L.A.”  (“Light and Spaced Out” preview), Mouvement May – June 2003

            “Redonner a Saint Germain son aura d’antan” (“Light and Spaced Out” preview),

                  L’OEIL May 2003.

2001     Kraus, Chris “Cast Away”, Art/Text May – July 2001

2000     Ball, Molly, “From York Street to Broome, Yale Artists Grow Up”, The Yale Herald 21

            January 2000.

1999     Faxon, Alicia ,“Joel Tauber:  Spiritual Anxiety, 31 Rats and 15 Doves”, Art New

            England June / July 1999.

            McQuaid, Cate “The Stuff of Dreams”, The Boston Globe 18 February 1999. 

1998/99Cover image of arts MEDIA Magazine Winter Issue 1998-1999.

1998     Faxon, Alicia “Bristol Art Museum / Bristol:  1998 National Juried Exhibition”, Art New England

                  October / November 1998

            Nieter, Dawn, “National Art Show Opens at Memorial Hall”, The Deerfield Valley News

                  24-31 December 1998.

1995     Soloski, Alexis , “The Undergraduate Art Show:  Our Lives on Display”, The Yale Herald

                 October 6, 1995.

            Lana, Cheryl, “Sculpture Show Harmonizes Forces”, The Yale Herald 31 March 1995.

Film, Television, Radio

2006     Bill Drummond, “Cities of the Plain”, NPR, June 2

2002     Live Coverage of helium balloon and bagpipe powered flight by Z107.7 radio in Joshua Tree,

                  California,June 22, 2002.

1994/95The sculpture “Shelter”, with the artist's ensuing conversations about loneliness is a

                  primary subject of the film

            Generation X by Boaz Halaban, broadcast on New Haven public television, 1994-1995.

1999     Work discussed on the “Gary Jones Show”, Brookline Cable Access Television, 1999.

Internet

2002     Subject of an article by aviation pioneer, inventor, and father of modern ballooning, Don

                   Piccard, “Coyote Dry Lake Flight, June 22, 2002”, www.piccard.info.

Conferences and Lectures

2004      “Still Things Fall From the Sky: The unexpected, uncontrollable, and unexplained”, panel

                    discussion at the California Museum of Photography with Ciara Ennis, two artists, an

                    English professor, and a psychology professor

2004      Lectures about artist’s work to USC graduate students, undergraduate senior seminar class

2003            Lectures about his work at the Orange County Museum of Art; UC Irvine; and the Art

                    Institute of California, Orange County

2002     Subject of “Wonky Angel in the Desert”, guest lecture by MA Greenstein at the University of

                   New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, August

            Participated in “Remediating Social Contracts:  A Round Table Discussion on Site Specific

                   Performance Art”, Los Angeles Public Library, February 23

            Lecture about his work in MA Greenstein’s class “Comparative Aesthetics: The Body”

                   at Art Center College of Design (February 2002) and Otis College of Design (Oct. 2002).

2001     “Imagining Los Angeles Landscape:  Video Art in the Millies”, Victoria College of Art,

                  Melbourne, Australia, July 2001. 

            “Seven Attempts To Make A Ritual” screened and discussed by MA Greenstein with films by

                 Joseph Herring and Michelle Alperin.

            Lecture about his work in Brian McCormick’s class, “Science, Mysticism, and Art”,

                 Art Center College of Design