# Joel Tauber URL: https://vielmetter.com/artists/joel-tauber/ Has exhibited with Vielmetter Los Angeles ## Exhibitions - [Joel Tauber: Pumping](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2010-12-joel-tauber-pumping.md): December 18, 2010 — January 29, 2011 · Artists: Joel Tauber - [Summer Group Show](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2010-08-edgar-arceneaux-whitney-bedford-andrea-bowers-summer-group-show.md): August 7 — 30, 2010 · Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Whitney Bedford, Andrea Bowers, Jane Callister, Sean Duffy, Nicole Eisenman, Charles Gaines, Karl Haendel, Jutta Koether, Alice Könitz, Shana Lutker, Rodney McMillian, Martin McMurray, Wangechi Mutu, Elizabeth Neel, Ruben Ochoa, Amy Sillman, Joel Tauber, Tâm Văn Trần - [Joel Tauber: Sick-Amour](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2007-03-joel-tauber-sick-amour.md): March 17 — April 28, 2007 · Artists: Joel Tauber - [Joel Tauber: Seven Attempts to Make A Ritual](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2005-06-joel-tauber-seven-attempts-to-make-a-ritual.md): June 25 — July 30, 2005 · Artists: Joel Tauber - [Joel Tauber: The Underwater Project](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2004-11-joel-tauber-the-underwater-project.md): November 20 — December 25, 2004 · Artists: Joel Tauber - [Joel Tauber: Searching for the Impossible: the Flying Project](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2004-01-joel-tauber-searching-for-the-impossible-the-flying-project.md): January 10 — February 14, 2004 · Artists: Joel Tauber ## Biography Lives and works in Winston-Salem, NC 1972 Born in Boston, MA 2002 MFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA 1997 MA, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA 1995 BA, Art History and Sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, CT **Selected Exhibitions** 2011 Pumping, Adamski Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2010 Pumping, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA 2008 Joel Tauber: Digging, Diving, Flying, and Loving, Adamski Gallery, Berlin, Germany Sick-Amour, Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Arts, Whittier College, Whittier, CA 2007 Sick-Amour, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA Sick-Amour, Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany 2006 "Searching for the Impossible: Digging, Flying and Diving", Gallery Saintonge, Missoula, MT 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, Los Angeles, CA 2003 Searching For The Impossible, Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany 1999 Spiritual Anxiety: 31 Rats & 15 Doves, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA **Group Exhibitions** 2013 Faculty [III] 13, Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 2012 Strictly Academic, Part 2: Works by Faculty at Wake Forest University, Rhodes Art Center, Salem, NC "my.LA," haubrok foundation, Berlin, Germany Prime Time: New Media Juried Exhibition, Ashville Museum of Art, Ashville, NC The Planter Show, ForYourArt, Los Angeles, CA 2011 Nurturing Nature, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY Trees, UCross Foundation Art Gallery, Clearmont, Wyoming Plains of Id, California State University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA Water, CA, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, curated by Enid Baxter Blader and Nicole Antebi 2010 Cluster Balloons:From Lawn Chairs to Cosmic Rays, Anderson-Abruzzo Albequerque International Balloon Museum, Albuquerque, NM "No Matter. Failure And Art, The Kunstverein Hildesheim, Germany, curated by Florina Limberg and Jens Papenkort Ucross: Twenty-Seven Years of Visual Arts Residencies, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY, curated by Lisa Hatchadoorian 2009 "ecoLOGIC" at the Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA, curated by Patrica Watts "LA 2019: Cults, Collectives, & Cocooning", 18th Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA, curated by Ciara Ennis 2008 Flight dreams, The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia, Canada and traveling to: AGNS Western Branch, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada California Biennial 2008, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, curated by Lauri Firstenberg The Whole World Is Still Watching, Glendale Community College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA. Curated by Irene Tsatsos Gravity Art, Telic Arts Exchange, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Rene Daalder Systems Theory, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA Tree Service, Jeanne Pattersons Domestic Setting, LA, CA. Curated by Michael Gold and Jeanne Patterson 2007 Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA, Curated by Maggi Owens. Love is Like Oxygen, W139, Amsterdam, Holland, curated by Theo Tegelaers "The New Authentics: Contemporary Artists of the post-Jewish Generation", catalogue, Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL, curated by Staci Boris, traveling to Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 2006 700% Plus, CPH Kunsthal Festival, Copenhagen 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 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, curated by Sandra Antelo-Suarez and Guillermo Santamarina 2003 Light and Spaced Out: 11 Artists From Los Angeles, Herve Loevenbruck Gallery, Paris, France and the Centre dArt 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 And Sculpture 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** 2011 Knight, Christopher, Joel Tauber at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, The Los Angeles Times, January 20 Doktorczyk-Donohue, Marlena, Joel Tauber: Pumping at Susanne Vielmetter, Art ltd., March/April 2010 Myers, Holly, Art that makes a public spectacle of itself, The Los Angeles Times, June 6 Doan, Abigail, ECO ART: New York Times Dot Earth and Ecoartspace Ask What Matters Most?, inhabitat.com, May 1 Garchik, Leah, Look For The Kids With The Big Eyes, San Francisco Chronicle, October 25 Chiu, Ringo H.W., What was your favorite movie of 2009, Los Angles Times, March 4 Williams, Janette and Charles, Brian, Citybeats: A Rose Bowl love story stars in film, Pasadena Star-News, September 5 2009 Ennis, Ciara, Kunstwerken voor de publieke ruimte / Artworks for Public Space, Podium for Architecture Haarlemmermeer, Catalogue, March Immediato, Linda, Gallery of Earthly Delights, Angeleno Magazine, January 2008 Joel Tauber, A Life Redeemed, NYARTS, November / December Joel Tauber in Conversation With Susan Bell Yank, 2008 California Biennial, exhibition catalogue, Orange Country Museum of Art, pp. 198-199 The Orange County Museum of Art Presents the 2008 California Biennial, artdaily.org, October 27 Kecskes, Alex, A Rich Palette of Talent, 944 Magazine, October Kelley Jr., Bill, Observations on Sick-Amour, Log: Observations on architecture and the contemporary city, Spring / Summer, pg 80. Geagea, Nadia, Sick-Amour: One Californians Love Affair with Trees, International Society of Arboriculture: Arborist News magazine, February Biemiller, Lawrence, At USC, a Sycamore With a Story to Tell, The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 18. Walden Schools Tree Baby Project, Pasadena Outlook, September 25 Tree Planting Ceremony Held, La Canada / La Crescenta Valley Sun, September 18 Tree Project Branches Off Across SoCal, USC Chronicle, February 4 Sheppard, Dale, Flight Dreams, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Journal, Fall / Winter Vider, Stephen, Cultural Evolution: What exactly is post-Jewish art?, Netbook, July 2 Joel Tauber, Growing, University of Southern California BA/BFA Catalogue, May Mania, Astrid, Graben und Fliegen, Artnet, March 25 Geagea, Nadia, Sick-Amour: One Californians Love Affair with Trees, International Society of Arboriculture: Arborist, February Villamagna, Holly, Sculptures honor urban plant life Sculptures surrounding a newly-planted tree aim to inspire respect for nature, Daily Trojan, January 25 Biemiller, Lawrence, At USC, a Sycamore With a Story to Tell, The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 18 2007 Nelson, Sarah Geller, What Kind of Transformations Would We Enjoy If We Tried To Achieve The Impossible? and Boris, Stacy, The New Authentics, Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation, (exhibition catalogue) Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Chicago Miles, Christopher, Our Favorite Shows and Artifacts: Joel Tauber at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, LA Weekly, December 27 Gunn, Dan. Eye Exam: Authentically Yours, NewCity Chicago, December 04 Brooks, Kimberly, First Person Artist: Joel Tauber, The Huffington Post, November 16 Patterson, Carrie, Joel Tauber: Sick Amouor, Art Circles, Issue #5, Fall Gray, Emma, L.A. Confidential, artnet, October 12 Villamagna, Holly, Planting amour seeds in L.A., The Daily Trojan, October 2 Khuri, Elizabeth, Public Art Angel: Lauri Firstenberg gets art out of museums and into the street, West: LA Times Magazine, September 16 Zellen, Jody, Joel Tauber, artUS, Summer Degen, Pener, A Pasadena Parking Lots cherished Tree, seedhead.com, July 13 Martin, Victoria, Joel Tauber at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Artweek, June McCave, Lesley, "Regional Roundup: Los Angeles", Artinfo.com, April 11 Brooks, Amra, Must See Art, LA Weekly, April 11 Soules, Carol, "Sick-Amour", April 9 "Sick-Amour: A Guerrilla in Sunny CA", Guerillagardening.org, April 9 Myers, Holly, "Joel Tauber's Rose Bowl Sycamore Project Rooted in Obsession", Los Angeles Times, March 30 Clothier, Peter, The Buddha Diaries Blog, March 23 Es, Carol, Good shows around town, esart.com, March 21 Mizota, Sharon, Crawling into the woodwork, Los Angeles Times, March 10 Calder, Diane, Joel Tauber, Artscene, March Gray, Emma, Future Greats, Art Review, March Gray, Emma, The It Factor, artnet, February 19 Blodgett, Erica, A Sycamour Affair The love story of Joel Tauber and his lonely sycamore, The Design Magazine, February 2006 Harvey, Doug, The new, weird counterculture, LA Weekly, November 16 Tsui, Loire, Protector of a lone sycamore tree: Teacher is creating an art exhibit about the future of a tree in Rose Bowl parking lot, Daily Trojan, November 3 Williams, Janet, His Tree of Life: Artist Tends to Lone Sycamore in Rose Bowl Parking Lot, Pasadena Star News, October 4 Gray, Emma, L.A. Confidential, artnet, August 21 VVork Online, August Werkleitz Biennale (exhibition catalogue), Werkleitz Gesellschaft, Halle, Germany Bokern, Anneke, Bedingungsloser Krpereinsatz, 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 Sachs, Mark, The caveman digs nature and the Sox, Los Angeles Times, August 25 Villasenor, Michael, Water world of music, Daily Trojan, August 24 Newhouse, Kristina, Experiencing the California Biennial, X-Tra, Spring Issue, Vol.7, No.3 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 Angeles Times, November 26 Pincus, Robert, "Tuning in to the O.C.:'Biennial' belly laughs", San Diego Union Tribune, November 7 Gary, Jessica, Adventures in the OC, Insurgent Muse: Notes from the Underground Knight, Christopher, "Biennial arrives, and so does a museum", Los Angeles Times, October 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 Light and Spaced Out, Vogue: Paris May From L.A. (Light and Spaced Out preview), Mouvement May June Redonner a Saint Germain son aura dantan (Light and Spaced Out preview), LOEIL May 2002 Piccard, Don (aviation pioneer, inventor, father of modern ballooning), Coyote Dry Lake Flight, June 22 2001 Kraus, Chris Cast Away, Art/Text May July 2000 Ball, Molly, From York Street to Broome, Yale Artists Grow Up, The Yale Herald 21 January 1999 Faxon, Alicia , Joel Tauber: Spiritual Anxiety, 31 Rats and 15 Doves, Art New England June / July McQuaid, Cate The Stuff of Dreams, The Boston Globe 18 February 1998-1999 Cover image of arts MEDIA Magazine Winter Issue 1998 Faxon, Alicia Bristol Art Museum / Bristol: 1998 National Juried Exhibition, Art New England October / November Nieter, Dawn, National Art Show Opens at Memorial Hall, The Deerfield Valley News 24-31 December 1995 Soloski, Alexis, The Undergraduate Art Show: Our Lives on Display, The Yale Herald 6 October 1995. Lana, Cheryl, Sculpture Show Harmonizes Forces, The Yale Herald 31 March 1995. **Public Collections** Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany W139, Amsterdam Netherlands USC Roski School of Fine Arts, Los Angeles Newcombs Ranch, Altadena, CA Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA Shoes or No Shoes Museum, Kruishoutem, Belgium Walteria Elementary, Torrance, CA LA>