b. 1978, Atlanta, GA
Lives and works in Carrboro, NC USA
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2022
Parallel Shift, Works by Robbin Gourley and Joy Drury Cox, Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, NC
2020
Prone and Plumb, Asphodel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018
Hard Places, Ejecta Projects, Carlisle, PA
2016
Joy Drury Cox: Book Works, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Roger Williams Gallery, Manchester, NH
Please Print Legibly, Institute 193, Lexington, KY
2015
Pockets, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2014
Stranger, Workshop at Christian Berst, New York, NY
Or, Some of the Whale, Launch F18, New York, NY
2013
Given Shapes, F.L.A. Gallery, Gainesville, FL
2011
Some Titles in a Library, Old School on Mott Street in conjunction with The New Museum’s Festival for New Ideas, New York, NY
2009
Joy Drury Cox and Ann Woo, Humble Arts Foundation, NADA Art Fair, Miami, FL
Text. (or in the vacancy of), Greenlease Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2003
Joy Drury Cox and Kim Hoeckele New Photographs, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Group Exhibitions
2022
Bad Touch 2.0, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2021
Inside Outside, Galerie aKonzept, Berlin, Germany
She’s At The Hudson, The Hudson Project, Raleigh, NC
Summer Reading, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
10 Years, Launch F18, New York, NY
Candle, My Room, Attic 506, Chapel Hill, NC
2019
Deep Space Laundry, Washer Dryer Projects, Salt Lake City, UT, Curator: Jon Feinstein
Rulers, Coco Hunday, Tampa, FL
The Atlanta Biennial, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA, Co-curators: Phillip March Jones and Daniel Fuller
How It Is, Asphodel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018
Art-n-Stuff: Personal Longings and Peculiar Pairings, Ejecta Projects, Carlisle, PA
And light followed the flight of sound, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA
The Temperature: Born Under a Bad Sign, The Neon Heater Gallery, Findlay, OH
Anti-Nostalgia, The Carrack, Durham, NC
“Numerology,” Humble Arts Foundation, online exhibition
Seeing the Weave: Textile based abstraction from the Piedmont, Smith Gallery, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
Summer Sun Day Dream, The Lab at Silver Eye, Pittsburgh, PA
Summer Reading, Woskob Family Gallery, Penn State University, State College, PA
The Contemporaries, Light: Art + Design, Chapel Hill, NC
2017
Ephemeroptera, The Hand, Brooklyn, NY
Digiscapes, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
UNC Art Faculty Exhibition, Light: Art + Design, Chapel Hill, NC
Piles, Stacks, Lumps & Mounds, Canal Street Market, New York, NY
Bookish, Light: Art + Design, Chapel Hill, NC
The Nothing That Is: A Drawing Show In Five Parts (V. 2), The Carnegie, Covington, KY
2016
Anywhere But Here, Lump, Raleigh, NC
n e w f l e s h, Rubber Factory, New York, NY
Continuum, Light: Art + Design Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
Camstellation, Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh, NC
2015
Neo-Pre-Post-Contra-Para-Anti-Hyper-Pro-Trans-Ultra-Photography, Spectre Arts, Durham, NC, Curator: elin o’Hara slavick
METHOD with Wendy Collin Sorin, Goldenbelt Studios, Durham, NC
The Nothing That Is: A Drawing Show In Five Parts, CAM Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, Curators: Bill Thelen and Jason Polan
2014
Artist/Novelist, The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Cross-Reference, Emory University Visual Arts Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2013
Home, Station 21, Zurich, Switzerland
RANSOM, Wayfarers Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
(con)TEXT, Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH, Curator: Tim Donavan
1XX, Launch F18, New York, NY, Curator: Sam Trioli
2012
Bound to Printed Matter, Howland Public Library, Beacon, NY
STARDUST, 1591 Gallery, Rahway, NJ
Hidden in Plain Sight, Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York, NY, Curator: David Andrew Frey
Small Prints, Flash Forward Festival, Boston, MA, Curators: Jon Feinstein and Amani Olu
2011
A Strange Sense of Calm, Botanic Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
One If By Wanderlust, 25 CPW, New York, NY
Tuesday, Mixed Greens, New York, NY. Curator: Amani Olu
The New Show, The New School Employee Art Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, NY, NY
2010
In Advance of a Lecture, Humble Arts Foundation, NADA Art Fair, Miami, FL
re:Context, Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York, NY. Curator: Brad Silk
Nowhere: Selections from the Hand Drawn Map Association, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA, Curator: Kris Harzinski
MUSEUM ALL-OVER, John Erickson Musuem of Art with the Raccolte Frugone Museum, Genoa, Italy
Little Wonder, John Erickson Museum of Art at Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Structures and Subversions, Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
Chairs, LOOKbetween, Festival of the Photograph, Charlottesville, VA
1/1000 sf/ft, NC Music Factory, Charlotte, NC Curator: Dugg Dugg
2009
We Do Our Part, Envoy Enterprises, New York, NY
Linear Progression, Horse Trader Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Evading Customs, Brown Gallery, London, England
FAX, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Cleopatra’s: Trade Secrets, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY
Anonymous Drawings Archive Selection 2009, Fruehsorge Contemporary Drawings,Berlin, Germany
International Festival for Photography and Video, GoEun Museum of Photography, Busan, Korea
2008
Anonymous Drawings No.9, Kunstraum Kruezberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Communication Breakdown, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
Communication Breakdown (Part 2), Galerie Impaire, Paris, France
The Form Itself, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY, Curator: Michael Bühler-Rose
Nineteenth Annual Juried Exhibition, Viridian Artists Gallery, New York, NY, Juror: Elisabeth Sussman
Eggcartonopolis, HQ Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Day Job, Fine Arts Gallery, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY
Mapping Correspondence: Mail Art in the Twenty-first Century, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
2007
Apocalypse Wow, Jersey City, NJ
Videogarden, ICP Studios, Queens, NY, Curator: David Benjamin Smith
Analogous Logic, Temporary Storage/ Brooklyn Fireproof Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Curators: Summer Guthery and Lumi Tan
How Can You Be In Two Places at Once When You Are Not Anywhere At All?, Live With Animals Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2006
Applications, MFA Thesis Exhibition, University Gallery, Gainesville, FL
2003
Emerging Visions, Atlanta Photography Group Gallery, Atlanta, GA, Curator: Jerry Cullum
Emory Young Alumni Invitational, Visual Arts Gallery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Artist Books
2021
Outs, published by Skylark Editions
2020
Twenty-Five Typewriters, Edited by Derek Beaulieu, published by No Press
2018
Compound Fractures, artist book with Ben Alper, published by Flat Space Studio
And the light followed the flight of sound, artist book, published by One Day Projects
2014
Stranger, artist book published by Conveyor Editions
2013
Or, Some of the Whale, artist book published by Conveyor Editions
2012
Old Man and Sea, artist book published by Conveyor Editions
Collections
The Daniel Klein Collection
Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, NY
New York Public Library, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, New York, NY
Pratt Institute Library, Brooklyn, NY
Johns Hopkins University, Sheridan Libraries and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Baltimore, MD
University of Virginia Library, The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, Charlottesville, VA
University of North Carolina, Sloane Art Library, Chapel Hill, NC
University of Miami, Otto G. Richter Library, Miami, FL
Publications and Reviews
2019
Give Me Space, La Vague Journal, Issue #11, online publication, curated by Jennifer Pilch
Feinstein, Jon, “50 Stellar Photos of Outer Space,” Vice Magazine Online, July, 18, 2019
Feaster, Felicia, “Inclusivity and optimism reign at 2019 Atlanta Biennial,” Atlanta Journal and Constitution, February 11, 2019
2018
“Tourist Attraction”, Photo District News-PDN Magazine, The Fine-Art Photography Issue, August 2018, pp. 73, 76 - 78
Feinstein, Jon, “Humble Booklist: 32 Photobooks That Dropped Our Jaws in 2018,” Humble Arts Foundation, Online Review, November 20, 2018
Campbell, Max, “If Photographs Could Talk,” Aperture, Essays, April 18, 2018
2016
Uniformagazine No. 8, Winter 2016-2017, cover image and pp. 11, 23
A Game of Association, Unseen Magazine, Autumn 2016, pp. 58-64
2015
Luse, Mimi, “The Nothing That Is - A Drawing Show in Five Parts,” Frieze, Issue 175, Nov-Dec. 2015
Vitiello, Chris, “Off The Wall,” Indy Week, Visual Art Section, July 22, 2015
2014
Moeller, Candace, “Summer Seafaring: Get Your Sea Legs at Wayfarers’ Ocean-Themed Exhibition,”Bushwick Daily, Arts and Culture, Aug. 15, 2014
2011
Mapping, Conveyor Magazine Issue No. 2
Everything is Dolphins, Timothy Hutchings, Ed.
2010
Breadlines, Yam Magazine. Hilary Schaffner, Ed.
2009
Packham, Chris, “Text, Design, Emotion,” The Pitch, Vol. 29, No. 10, Sept. 10-16, 2009
Cotter, Holland, “Last Chance: Cleopatra’s: Trade Secrets,” Museum and Gallery Listings, Art and Design, The New York Times, May 14, 2009
2008
Coburn, Tyler, “Rhizome News: A Question of Form,” Rhizome.org. September 17, 2008
Blir Magazine. Jennifer Gomez Ed. Online magazine
She Told Two Friends, Online curatorial project
Irving Sandler Artist’s File, Artists Space, online exhibition
Why + Wherefore, online exhibition, Curators: Summer Guthery, Lumi Tan, Nick Weist
2003
Cullum, Jerry, “Opposites, Attractively Juxtaposed,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Section M “Arts,” October 9, 2003. p. 3
Feaster, Felicia. “Inhuman Touch,” Creative Loafing, Volume 32, No. 22, October 9, 2003. p. 59
Feaster, Felicia. “Point of View,” Creative Loafing, Volume 32, No. 15, August 21, 2003. p. 47
Feaster, Felicia. “Bustin’ Out,” Creative Loafing, Volume 31, No. 39, February 5, 2003. p. 63
Shots Magazine. #80. Russell Joslin Ed. pp. 21, 38
Shots Magazine. #82. Russell Joslin Ed. p. 15
Pinhole Journal. Eric Renner and Nancy Spencer, Ed. Vol. 19 #3. Dec. 2003. pp. 20-21.
Artist Talks
2019
Panel Discussion, Atlanta Contemporary in conjunction with 2019 Atlanta Biennial
2018
Artist Talk, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC in conjunction with Seeing the Weave: Textile based Abstraction from the Piedmont exhibition
Teaching
2013 - 2023
Teaching Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Education
2003-2006
Masters in Fine Arts, School of Art & Art History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2000-2002
Post Baccalaureate Studies in Photography, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
1999-2001
Bachelor of Art in English and Minor in Studio Art, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
1997-1999
Associate of Art, Oxford College of Emory University, Oxford, GA