Joe McKay
- b.1970, Swansea, Wales, lives and works in New York
- Solo Exhibitions
- 2010
- Pari Nadimi Gallery (Toronto, Canada)
- BigTime, Berkeley Art Museum, online http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/ (Berkeley, US)
- 2007
- Loss of Signal VertexList (Brooklyn, New York)
- 2004
- Loading VertexList, New York (New York)
- 2001
- The Electric Donut, (with Kristin Lucas), New Museum of Contemporary Art, Media Z Lounge (New York)
- The Electric Donut, (with Kristin Lucas), Gallery 400 (Chicago, US)
- 2000
- May Show, Project Space, Sculpture Center (New York)
- Group Exhibitions
- 2009
- SISYPHUS OFFICE, Skydive (Houston, US)
- the future is not what it used to be, Postmasters Gallery (New York)
- Aesthetics of Gaming, PACE University (New York)
- 2008
- Schematic: New Media Art from Canada, Space (London, England)
- RESET/PLAY, Arthouse, Austin Texas
- TRY AGAIN, La Casa Encendida (Madrid, Spain)
- Off the Grid, Neuberger Museum of Art Deadpan III, The Lab, performance, (San Francisco,US)
- 2007
- The return of Balance (with Greg Niemeyer), The Falaki Gallery, (Cairo, Egypt)
- 2006
- The Golden Hour, Gigantic Art Space (New York)
- NextNew 2006 : Art and Technology, ICA (San Jose, CA, US)
- 2005
- Six Outdoor Projects at LIU, Long Island University (Brooklyn, New York)
- Code Residue, VertexList (Brooklyn, New York)
- Iam5, Parkers Box International Art Fair (Brooklyn, New York)
- 2004
- Game Overature II, Free 103.9 (Brooklyn, New York)
- The Infinite Fill Show, Foxy Production (Brooklyn, New York)
- Presence of Light, Berkshire Museum, (Pittsfield, New York)
- 2003
- Outpost, Smack Mellon Gallery (New York)
- Radiator Festival (Nottingham, England
- transmediale.o3 (Berlin, Germany)
- Animations, Kunstwerk (Berlin, Germany)
- 2002
- Prosthesis, (with Matt Freedman), im n iL Gallery (Brooklyn, New York)
- 2001
- Animations, P.S.1 Contemporary Art (Brooklyn, New York)
- Stand Clear, Art in General (New York)
- 2000
- Simulcast Convention 2000: New York, (with Kristin Lucas, Sally McKay, Tim Hirzel, and DJ Mr. E), Postmasters Gallery (New York)
- Proposals from Halifax, National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Canada)
- Church of What's Happenin' Now, Simulcast Convention 2000: Columbus, Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH, US)
- Joe McKay / Sandy Plotnikov, YYZ (Toronto, Canada)
- Bibliography
- Ashley, Chris "introducing…", NYFA Interactive (nyfa.org) 2006
- Cotter, Holland "Sampling Brooklyn, Keeper of Eclectic Flames", New York Times, Jan 23, 2004
- “Goings on About Town”, New Yorker, July 7th 2003
- Lutker, Shana "The Electric Donut" New Art Examiner, , January - February 2002, p.67
- Awards/Residencies
- 2006 Eisner Award, UC Berkeley
- 2007/2008 Headlands MFA awardee
- Education
- 2007 - UC Berkeley, Practice of Art MFA
- 2000 – 2001 Whitney Independent Study Program
- 1989-1993 BFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Major in Studio, Minor in Art History
