Joseph Smolin
Website: https://www.josephsmolin.art/
Instagram: @cartoon.dreams
Email: smolindesign@gmail.com
Joseph Smolin is a painter and multimedia artist currently based in Boston, MA. He has shown work in numerous spaces including Echo Contemporary in Atlanta, ICOSA in Austin, and Satellite Art Fair in NYC. He was a member of the national artist-run collective Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and was the recipient of the 2024 South Carolina Arts Commission's Emerging Artist Grant.
Smolin is a prolific artist, teacher, and curator. He co-founded and contributes to the nonprofit art magazine Rattlesnake, which aims to highlight a diverse set of emerging artists in the South. His duo show with Virginia Russo, Invisible Planet, was created for the main gallery at the Greenville Center for Creative Arts. He also worked with Griffin Cordell to create NO SLEEP THEME PARK, an interactive and immersive art exhibition that debuted in the Metropolitan Arts Council Gallery, before moving to Browsing Room Gallery in Nashville, TN. His solo show, SINKHOLE, SC, recently opened at Good Art Co. and reflected on gentrification and climate disaster in the South.
Smolin was born in Birmingham, AL and received a BA in Industrial Design from Auburn University.