# Mario Joyce URL: https://vielmetter.com/artists/mario-joyce/ Represented by Vielmetter Los Angeles Mario Joyce’s work is rooted in his genealogical research of his family, going back to the 1600s. Incorporating imagery, memories, and stories from his familial research, Joyce incorporates vintage collage materials and soil from the farm he grew up on into his sumptuously textured paintings, weaving together a rich tapestry of his origins. A self-taught artist, Joyce mines his ancestral lineage as well as his personal experience growing up in rural Ohio as a Queer Black man. His work delves into how memories evolve over time and across generations, transforming into intricate capsules of meaning that convey messages of identity, belonging, and place. Mario Joyce lives and works in Los Angeles. .Joyce’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at The National Arts Club, New York, NY (2026); Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (2025); UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA (2024); Sakhile&Me, Frankfurt, Germany (2023); UTA Art Space, Atlanta, CA (2022). He has been included in numerous group exhibitions at Four One Nine, San Francisco, CA (2026); North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND (2025); MUZEO Museum and Cultural Center, Anaheim, CA (2024); F2T Gallery, Milan, Italy (2023); New York Culture Club, New York, NY (2022); Over the Influence, Los Angeles, CA (2022), among others. Joyce has participated in several residencies including Sointula House Residency, Sointula, BC (2024); Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME (2023); Pratt Forward, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (2022); La Brea Studio Residency, Los Angeles, CA (2021). His work is included in public collections including the Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC and the North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND. ## Exhibitions - [Mario Joyce: Bastard Countryside](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/mario-joyce-2026.md): November 21, 2026 — February 6, 2027 · Gallery III · Artists: Mario Joyce - [Mario JoyceWatersheds](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/mario-joycewatersheds.md): November 2 — 25, 2026 · National Arts Club, New York, NY · Artists: Mario Joyce - [Ongoingness](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/ongoingness.md): July 25 — September 5, 2026 · Gallery III · Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Andrea Bowers, Alec Egan, Nicole Eisenman, Liz Glynn, Karl Haendel, Samuel Levi Jones, Mario Joyce, Mary Kelly, Nate Lewis, Hugo McCloud, Rodney McMillian, Dave Muller, Wangechi Mutu, The Estate of Pope.L, Robert Pruitt, Deborah Roberts, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Ariane Vielmetter - [Andrea BowersLavaughan JenkinsMario JoyceRobert PruittDeborah RobertsGio SwabyKiriakos Tompolidis inIcons, Archetypes, and Portraits](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/icons-archetypes-and-portraits.md): November 6, 2025 — January 25, 2026 · North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND · Artists: Andrea Bowers, Lavaughan Jenkins, Mario Joyce, Robert Pruitt, Gio Swaby, Deborah Roberts, Kiriakos Tompolidis - [Mario Joyce: Spirit, Spirit](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/mario-joyce-2024.md): November 23, 2024 — January 25, 2025 · Gallery II · Artists: Mario Joyce - [New Works by Lavaughan Jenkins, Mario Joyce, Raffi Kalenderian, Kiriakos Tompolidis](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/new-works-by-lavaughan-jenkins-mario-joyce-raffi-kalenderian-kiriakos-tompolidis.md): January 13 — March 9, 2024 · Greenhouse · Artists: Lavaughan Jenkins, Raffi Kalenderian, Mario Joyce ## Biography 1985 Born in Ohio Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA **Selected Exhibitions** 2026 "Bastard Countryside," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming) "Watersheds," National Arts Club, New York City, NY 2024 "Spirit, Spirit," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA "Amaryllis’ Garden," UTA Art Space, Beverly Hills, CA 2023 "Gravity," Sakhile&Me, Frankfurt, Germany 2022 “A Stranger’s House That Is Our Own,” UTA Art Space, Atlanta, GA **Selected Group Exhibitions** 2026 "Art eXodus: From North to South, The Coast," Four One Nine, San Francisco, CA "Ongoingness," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2025 "Icons, Archetypes, and Portraits," North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND "Creative Confluence," Phillips Auction House, Los Angeles, CA 2024 "Tracing Through Autumn Winds”, DoxsDoks, Cologne, Germany “for love, for art, and for being”, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA "New Works by Lavaughan Jenkins, Mario Joyce, Raffi Kalenderian, Kiriakos Tompolidis," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2024-2023 "TRADITIONS," MUZEO Museum and Cultural Center, Anaheim, CA 2023 “With Regard To Each Other,” Two person show with Julie Severino, F2T Gallery, Milan, Italy 2022 “My People,” Good Black Art, New York Culture Club, New York, NY “From the Golden Hour Into Night,” Over the Influence, Los Angeles, CA Felix Art Fair, Residency Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2021 Future Art Fair, Over the Influence, New York, NY 2020 Prizm Art Fair, Miami, FL "Night & Day," Local Project Art Space, Long Island City, NY **Residencies, Scholarships, & Prizes** 2025 Alonzo Davis Fellowship at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA 2024 Sointula Art Shed Artist Residency, Sointula BC, Canada 2023 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME 2022 Pratt>FORWARD, Pratt Institute, Fine Arts- Brooklyn, NY 2021 La Brea Studio Residency, Los Angeles, CA ArtCrawl Harlem- Governor’s Island, New York, NY **Public Collections** Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND