Joyce Ernst

Bio

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Joyce Ernst is a multidisciplinary artist who works at the intersection of photography, writing and bookmaking. As an adoptee, her practice is a way to make sense of a world that is often defined by its gaps, half-truths and contradictions.

Joyce received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Virginia and an MFA from Maine Media College. She is the recipient of the Pasadena Photography Arts 2024 Photographer of the Year award for her series The Uncertainty of Being. Her work has been exhibited by Studio 162 in Rockport Maine, the Atlanta Photography Group, the Texas Photographic Society, PhotoPlace Gallery, Praxis Gallery, the Sun Valley Airport Committee and numerous online magazines. She divides her time between Dallas, Texas and Sun Valley, Idaho.

Joyce Ernst

Resume / CV

Joyce Ernst

joycejernst@gmail.com
www.joyceernst.com

EDUCATION

  • Maine Media College, M.F.A. 2023

  • University of Virginia, B.A. English

  • University of Virginia, M.B.A.

HONORS

  • Pasadena Photographic Arts Photographer of the Year, 2024

  • One of 100 photographers selected to participate in CENTER Santa Fe 2021

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

  • NYC4PA, Decay, online exhibition

  • F-Stop Magazine, online exhibition #125, Cities

  • F-Stop Magazine, online exhibition #124, Color

2023

  • Thesis Show, Studio 162, Rockport, Maine

2022

  • Sun Valley Airport Show, May-October

  • Fraction Magazine Issue 157, 14th Anniversary Issue

  • F-Stop Magazine Amusement Issue

2020

  • Texas Photographic Society Listening to the Land Exhibition, Texas Tech School of Art, Lubbock, TX, juror Joel Salcido

  • Society of Arts and Crafts and Stonehenge Gallery Photography Show, Montgomery, AL, juror Angie Dodson

  • Dallas Center for Photography Contrast Exhibition, Dallas, TX, juror Peter Poulides

2019

  • Photoplace Gallery Contemporary Landscape Exhibition, Middlebury, VT, Director’s Prize

  • Atlanta Photography Group ATL Airport Show, Atlanta, GA

  • Midwest Center for Photography Landscape Exhibition, Wichita, KS

  • Praxis Gallery, The Sublime Landscape, Minneapolis, MN

WORKSHOPS AND MENTORSHIPS

  • Sarah Sentilles, Right to Write, a Generative Writing Community

  • Maureen Cummins, In Edition: Developing Artist’s Books

  • Joanne Dugan, Writing Pictures: Exploration of Text and Image, Los Angeles Center of Photography

  • Jason Fulford, Photography and the Subconscious, FotoFilmic, Bowen Island, B.C.

  • Claire Strand, Between Intention and Realization, FotoFilmic

  • Richard Reitz Smith and Barbara Bosworth, Artist Book Mentorship

  • Cig Harvey Mentorship, April- October 2020

  • Cig Harvey, Personal Projects in Iceland, NORD Photography

  • Keith Carter, Visual Poetry, Santa Fe Workshops

  • Debbie Fleming Caffery, Master Class, Santa Fe Workshops

  • Rodney Smith, Portraits, Santa Fe Workshops

  • Mark Ellen Mark, Master Class, Maine Photographic Workshops