Joey Fauerso
Joey Fauerso is an artist and 2022 Guggenheim Fellow in the Fine Arts and the recipient of the 2023 Presidential Seminar Award from Texas State University. Her work consists mostly of painting, video, installation and performance addressing issues of gender, humor and family. Recently her work has been exhibited at the Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas, the Galveston Art Center, Western Exhibitions Gallery, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, MASS MoCA, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and the Drawing Center in New
York. Fauerso has been the recipient of multiple grants and residencies, including a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2020 Joan Mitchell Grant for Painters and Sculptors, a 2021 Sustainable Arts Foundation grant, the RAIR artist in residence grant, Yaddo, MacDowell, and Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. Fauerso’s work is part of the permanent collection of multiple museums and institutions including the Blanton Museum of Art, Ruby City Museum, and The McNay Museum of Art. Fauerso is a Professor in the School of Art and Design at Texas State University, and lives with her family in San Antonio, Texas.