Studio: 1070 East Front Street #D
Ventura, CA 93001
solo exhibitions:
2018, Queer Before Queer, Leslie-Lohman @Prince Street Gallery, Solo Show
2018, The Few…The Proud…, Vivid Gallery, Solo Show
group exhibitions:
2021, Out There, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2021, Darkness/Light, Los Angeles LGBTQ Center’s Advocate & Gochis Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
2021, An A-Historical Daydream 14th A.I.R. Biennial, A.I.R. Gallery (Juror: Jasmine Wahi, Founder and Co-
Director Project for Empty Space, and Holly Block Social Justice Curator at the Bronx Museum)
Brooklyn, NY2021, New Beginnings, San Fernando Arts & Cultural Center (Juror: John Paul Thornton) San Fernando, CA
2021, Darkness/Light, Los Angeles LGBTQ Center’s Advocate & Gochis Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
2021, New Beginnings, San Fernando Arts & Cultural Center (Juror: John Paul Thornton) San Fernando, CA
2020, Crisis Mode, Online Exhibition Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (Juror: Lucia Olubunmi
Momoh, Curatorial Assistant UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive) Santa Ana, CA2020, 2021?, ShockBoxx Gallery, Hermosa, CA
2020, Women Artists Making Their Mark, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts (Jurors: Donna Seager & Suzanne Gray) Mill Valley, CA
2020, The Next Big Thing, Studio Channel Islands (Juror: Leah Ollman, Art Writer/Critic, LA Times, ARTnews, Art in America) Camarillo, CA
2020, Tarfest 2020: Transition, Launch Gallery (Juror: Holly Jerger, Curator at Craft Contemporary) Los Angeles, CA
2020, Art Under the Influence, Avenue 50 Studio (Jurors: Nathalie Sanchez, Raoul De La Sota, J. Michael Walker) Highland Park, CA
2020, Post Pride, Ace/121 Gallery, Glendale, CA
2020, Out There, Los Angeles Art Association, Juror Bert Green, Bern Green Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2017, 1947, Patricia Highsmith, Emulsion—The Fourth Annual Regional Juried Show
2017, Y. Nasty Women, NY
2017, What’s Your America, Atlanta, GA
2017, Jane Doesn’t Need Dick: Origin of Love, Touchstone Foundation for the Arts Emerging Artist Fellow (2015-2017)
2016, Transformer Silent Auction, American University’s Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
2016, LGBTQ Center, Washington, DC
2016, Defy/Define, Transformer Gallery. Washington, DC
2016, Erase Hate, Columbia Art Center, Columbia, MD
2016, Sites of Exchange: Lavender Diaspora, Clifford Chance, Washington, DC
2015, W.H.A.T. Now: Women/Healing/Art/Transformation, Clifford Chance, Washington, DC
2015, New Light, Willow Street Gallery, Washington, DC
2015, Layers, Touchstone, Washington, D C
2015, Locally Sourced, American University Museum, Washington, DC
2014, Collage + Assemblage, (Scene) Metrospace, East Lansing, Michigan
2013, 39th Street Gallery, Gateway Arts Center, Brentwood, Maryland
2013, Jewel Box Pop Up Gallery, Hyattsville, Maryland
2012, Strange Glue, Thompson Gallery, Weston, Massachusetts
2012, The Baum MFA Biennial, Baum Gallery of Fine Art, Conroy, Arkansas
2011, Cabinets of Wonder: A Queer’s Dialogue between the Grotesque, the Curious
and the Mundane, VCFA Graduation Exhibit
2009, Black Drag, Portraits from the Hill 1940, Theater 150, Ojai CA
2008, Imitation of Life, Ventura Art Fair, Ventura, CA2005, Evil Doer, Ventura College Art Gallery, Faculty Art Show, Ventura, CA
collections:
2018, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
fellowship:
2015, Touchstone Gallery
publications:
2021, We Cover the Waterfront: Conversations with VA Alumnx, Alumnx Jo Ann Block, Vermont College of Fine Arts, June 7, 2021
2020, Meet Jo Ann Block | Visual Artist, SHOUTOUT LA, November 20, 2020, Los Angeles, CA
2020, Show Me What You Got: Older Generation Lesbian Artist and Poets, WMN Zine, Issue 2
2018, Jo Ann Block: Pushing back Against Age and Gender, East City Art, Fall 2018 Print Periodical, Washington, DC
2015, Summer/Fall Issue, Lunch Ticket, Antioch University, Los Angeles, CA
residencies:
2016, Painting and Mixed Media Residency,
School of Visual Art, Summer Residency Program, New York, NY
2015, From the Laboratory to the Studio: Interdisciplinary Practices in Bio Art,
School of Visual Art, Summer Residency Program, New York, NY
catalogs:
Collage at 100, The Cambridge School of Weston
professional experience:
1980 – 2000, Graphic Designer in motion pictures, the arts and civic affairs.
2000 – 2009, Art Department, Instructor, Ventura College
Ventura, CA 93001
solo exhibitions:
2018, Queer Before Queer, Leslie-Lohman @Prince Street Gallery, Solo Show
2018, The Few…The Proud…, Vivid Gallery, Solo Show
group exhibitions:
2021, Out There, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2021, Darkness/Light, Los Angeles LGBTQ Center’s Advocate & Gochis Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
2021, An A-Historical Daydream 14th A.I.R. Biennial, A.I.R. Gallery (Juror: Jasmine Wahi, Founder and Co-
Director Project for Empty Space, and Holly Block Social Justice Curator at the Bronx Museum)
Brooklyn, NY2021, New Beginnings, San Fernando Arts & Cultural Center (Juror: John Paul Thornton) San Fernando, CA
2021, Darkness/Light, Los Angeles LGBTQ Center’s Advocate & Gochis Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
2021, New Beginnings, San Fernando Arts & Cultural Center (Juror: John Paul Thornton) San Fernando, CA
2020, Crisis Mode, Online Exhibition Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (Juror: Lucia Olubunmi
Momoh, Curatorial Assistant UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive) Santa Ana, CA2020, 2021?, ShockBoxx Gallery, Hermosa, CA
2020, Women Artists Making Their Mark, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts (Jurors: Donna Seager & Suzanne Gray) Mill Valley, CA
2020, The Next Big Thing, Studio Channel Islands (Juror: Leah Ollman, Art Writer/Critic, LA Times, ARTnews, Art in America) Camarillo, CA
2020, Tarfest 2020: Transition, Launch Gallery (Juror: Holly Jerger, Curator at Craft Contemporary) Los Angeles, CA
2020, Art Under the Influence, Avenue 50 Studio (Jurors: Nathalie Sanchez, Raoul De La Sota, J. Michael Walker) Highland Park, CA
2020, Post Pride, Ace/121 Gallery, Glendale, CA
2020, Out There, Los Angeles Art Association, Juror Bert Green, Bern Green Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2017, 1947, Patricia Highsmith, Emulsion—The Fourth Annual Regional Juried Show
2017, Y. Nasty Women, NY
2017, What’s Your America, Atlanta, GA
2017, Jane Doesn’t Need Dick: Origin of Love, Touchstone Foundation for the Arts Emerging Artist Fellow (2015-2017)
2016, Transformer Silent Auction, American University’s Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
2016, LGBTQ Center, Washington, DC
2016, Defy/Define, Transformer Gallery. Washington, DC
2016, Erase Hate, Columbia Art Center, Columbia, MD
2016, Sites of Exchange: Lavender Diaspora, Clifford Chance, Washington, DC
2015, W.H.A.T. Now: Women/Healing/Art/Transformation, Clifford Chance, Washington, DC
2015, New Light, Willow Street Gallery, Washington, DC
2015, Layers, Touchstone, Washington, D C
2015, Locally Sourced, American University Museum, Washington, DC
2014, Collage + Assemblage, (Scene) Metrospace, East Lansing, Michigan
2013, 39th Street Gallery, Gateway Arts Center, Brentwood, Maryland
2013, Jewel Box Pop Up Gallery, Hyattsville, Maryland
2012, Strange Glue, Thompson Gallery, Weston, Massachusetts
2012, The Baum MFA Biennial, Baum Gallery of Fine Art, Conroy, Arkansas
2011, Cabinets of Wonder: A Queer’s Dialogue between the Grotesque, the Curious
and the Mundane, VCFA Graduation Exhibit
2009, Black Drag, Portraits from the Hill 1940, Theater 150, Ojai CA
2008, Imitation of Life, Ventura Art Fair, Ventura, CA2005, Evil Doer, Ventura College Art Gallery, Faculty Art Show, Ventura, CA
collections:
2018, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
fellowship:
2015, Touchstone Gallery
publications:
2021, We Cover the Waterfront: Conversations with VA Alumnx, Alumnx Jo Ann Block, Vermont College of Fine Arts, June 7, 2021
2020, Meet Jo Ann Block | Visual Artist, SHOUTOUT LA, November 20, 2020, Los Angeles, CA
2020, Show Me What You Got: Older Generation Lesbian Artist and Poets, WMN Zine, Issue 2
2018, Jo Ann Block: Pushing back Against Age and Gender, East City Art, Fall 2018 Print Periodical, Washington, DC
2015, Summer/Fall Issue, Lunch Ticket, Antioch University, Los Angeles, CA
residencies:
2016, Painting and Mixed Media Residency,
School of Visual Art, Summer Residency Program, New York, NY
2015, From the Laboratory to the Studio: Interdisciplinary Practices in Bio Art,
School of Visual Art, Summer Residency Program, New York, NY
catalogs:
Collage at 100, The Cambridge School of Weston
professional experience:
1980 – 2000, Graphic Designer in motion pictures, the arts and civic affairs.
2000 – 2009, Art Department, Instructor, Ventura College
