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><ART, LA, CA

Walden School, Pasadena, CA

Pitzer College, Claremont, CA

Selected Projects

2007

Sick-Amour, a series of tree baby shrines in public sites throughout California celebrating the offspring from a lonely neglected sycamore tree stuck in the middle of Rose Bowl Parking Lot K. In progress. Tree babies are being placed in prominent locations with a series of plaques and at schools- with sculptural necklaces. Sites include the USC Roski School of Art, LA, CA; LA><ART, LA, CA; the Theodore Payne Foundation, Sun Valley, CA; a sycamore grove in the restored Arroyo Seco Valley near the parent tree, Pasadena, CA; multiple elementary schools in southern California; Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany; W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands; and the Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA.

Film/TV/Radio

2009

Shades of Green, Ovation Network. Joel Tauber and Sick-Amour will be featured for a five minute segment in the hour long television documentary Shades of Green, which will be aired nation wide via the Ovation Network on television as well as the internet, February

2008

Diving, Digging, Flying and Loving Interview with Joel Tauber, Berliner Kunstkontakter: the active Art TV, Adamski Berlin, March

2007

Six-minute story about Sick-Amour, Deutsche Welle radio, Deutschlandfunk, March 18

Mayer, Daniela, Akustisches Tagebuch: Highlights, Art Cologne, Art Radio Podcast, Germany, ZDF tv station, Dsseldorf, Germany, April

2006

Ross Becker, Local Story: Man Adopts Tree At Rose Bowl In Pasadena, Channel 4 Los Angeles, NBC, October 11

Bill Drummond, Cities of the Plain, NPR, June 2

2005

Storm, Louise, FORMAT Los Angeles”, Swedish Television (aired in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland), October 18

2002

Live coverage of helium balloon and bagpipe powered flight, Z107.7 radio, Joshua Tree, CA, June 22

1999

Work discussed on the Gary Jones Show, Brookline Cable Access Television

1994-1995

Shelter (sculpture), the artist's ensuing conversation about loneliness is a primary focus of the film Boaz Halaban, Generation X, New Haven public television

Screenings and Lectures

2014

"Pumping" and "Sick-Armour" screened at the UK Man and Biosphere Committee Urban Forum event, Spirituality, Culture, Myth, Art, and Nature, Balaji Temple Conference Centre, Sandwell, England (October 25)

2012

Screening of Sick-Amour, Prime Time: New Media Juried Exhibition, Ashville Museum of Art, July 15

2011

Screening of Searching For The Impossible: The Flying Project at the Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, Curated by Aimee Chang, August 19

Visiting Artist Lecture Series at Cal State University, Long Beach, CA, March 9

2010

Screening of Sick-Amour, Downtown Film Festival - Los Angeles, September 11

Screening of Flying Project, Artist Video Series, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas

Screening of Sick-Amour, Blue Planet Film Fest. Los Angeles, October 8, 9, & 10

Panel discussion with Liat Yossifor, Allison Miller, Bart Exposito, Claude Collins

Screening of Sick-Amour, San Francisco Documentary Festival, October 17 & 20

Panel with Stracensky and Krysten Cunningham. Moderated by David Pagel. Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA

Screening of Sick-Amour, Hartford International Film Festival, ovember 7

Guest Lecturer, Gwen Robertsons seminar at Pitzer College, Claremont, CA

2009

Guest Lecturer, Gloria Orensteins eco-feminism class at USC, Los Angeles, CA

Subject of one of Maya Escobars workshops in her series, Negotiating Diaspora Identities Through New Media, at Washington University, St. Louis, MO

2008

Guest Lecturer, The Fall Environmental Science Colloquium speaker series at Whittier College, Whittier, CA

Guest Lecturer, Shirley Tses BFA and MFA class Rigor or Vigor at CalArts, Valencia, CA

Guest Lecturer, Janet Owen Driggs Public Art Class at USC, Los Angeles, CA

Guest Lecturer, The Walden Elementary School, Pasadena, CA

Guest Lecturer, Mason Coolys Studio Visits class at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

Guest Lecturer, Jennifer Vanderpools class at Mount St Marys College, Los Angeles, CA

Guest Lecturer, Audubon Middle School, Los Angeles, CA

Guest Lecturer, Walteria Elementary, Torrance, CA

2007

Searching For The Impossible: The Flying Project screened in the film event, Finding A Home In The World While Moving Across It, Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA. An outdoor film screening event curated by Susanneh Bieber

Searching For The Impossible: The Flying Project screened in the Mannheim Film Festival, Mannheim, Germany

Short films from the video installation Sick-Amour, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA

Finding a Home in the World While Moving Across It, film screening, Curated by Susanneh Bieber, Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA

"Xerxes, Watering, & Tree Guards", "The Invisible Worker", & "Tree Babies, film screening, Ruth B.

Shannon Center for the Performing Arts Whittier College, Whittier, CA

Guest Lecturer, Environmental Science Colloquium at Whittier College, CA

Screening of Searching for the Impossible: the Flying Project, Mannheim Film Festival, Germany

Guest Lecturer, UCLA Extension, Michelle Eisenbergs class, Los Angeles, CA

Guest Lecturer, UCLA Extension, Jeff Cains class, Los Angeles, CA

Guest Lecturer, Cal State Long Beach, Dana Doyles class, Long Beach, CA

Guest Lecturer, UCLA, Dee Williams class, Los Angeles, CA

Artist talk, USC, Los Angeles, CA

Guest Lecturer, Windward School, Postmodern Questions in Contemporary Art class, Los Angeles, CA

Screening of Flying Project, program Finding a Home in the World While Moving Across It, First Fridays summer series, Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA

Screening, Sick-Amour, Echo Park Film Center, May 31, Los Angeles, CA

Cultivating Wilderness, ART-TALK-ART lecture series, Foundation for Art Resources, CalTrans building, Los Angeles, CA

Artist talk, Farmlab Public Salon, Los Angeles, CA

2006

Searching For The Impossible: The Flying Project screened in Happy Believers, 7th Werkleitz Biennial, Volkspark, Halle, Germany. Curated by Anke Hoffmann, Solvej Ovesen, Angelika Richter and Jan Schuijren

Searching For The Impossible: The Flying Project screened in Good Bye Festival, CPH Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark. Catalog.

Searching For The Impossible: The Flying Project screened in Artini Shorts 2006: roughly a 42 minute feast of moving pictures, Missoula Art Museum, Curated by Toni Matlock, May 18

Happy Believers: 7th Werkleitz Biennial, Volkspark, Halle, Germany

Artist talk, USC, Los Angeles, CA

Joel Tauber, lecture by Lauri Firstenberg, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA

Joel Tauber, lecture by MA Greenstein, Naropa University, Boulder, CO

Good Bye Festival, CPH Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark

Artini Shorts 2006, Missoula Art Museum, curated by Toni Matlock

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

Guest Lecturer, USC graduate students, undergraduate senior seminar class

2003

Guest Lecturer, Orange County Museum of Art; UC Irvine; and the Art Institute of California, Orange County, CA

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 Greensteins class Comparative Aesthetics: The Body at Art Center College of Design (February) and Otis College of Design (October)

2001

Imagining Los Angeles Landscape: Video Art in the Millies, Victoria College of Art, Melbourne, Australia, July

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 McCormicks class, Science, Mysticism, and Art, Art Center College of Design

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2010

Sick-Amour, won Best Green Film in the 2010 Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles

2009

Alpert Ucross Artist Residency Program, Clearmont, Wyoming

2008

Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2007-2008

Alpert Ucross Residency Prize for Visual Arts

2007

Contemporary Collectors Orange County Fellowship