Shelli Renee Joye

3636 Columbian Drive, Oakland, CA 94605

(510) 430-1443 or (510) 798-9006 

+39 366-5039062 (Italy)  

ShelliJoye@me.com

www.ShelliJoye.com

 

 

 

EDUCATION

2010-2011                 CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES,    PhD Candidate

2008-2010                 JOHN F. KENNEDY UNIVERSITY,    MFA in Painting

1974-1977                 CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES,  MA in Asian Philosophy

1967-1969                 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN,    BS in Electrical Engineering

1964-1967                 RICE UNIVERSITY,    Physics

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS   (Selected)

2009                       “The Enneads”,  Lanesplitter Temescal, Berkeley

2008                       “Angels in Fulham”, Lennox Gallery, London

2008                       “Becoming the Inner Cosmos ”,   Esteban Sabar Gallery, Oakland

2008                       “64 Angelic Studies on the Hayward Fault”,   Berkeley

2006                       “Pictures of Warmth and Survival”    Kashmiri Earthquake Benefit, Berkeley

1998                       “Eastern Desert Colors”       Faisal Gallery, Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia

1977                       “Abstract Tantra”      California Institute of Asian Studies, San Francisco

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE    

                              Lighting Consultant for Andy Warhol on Union Square, 1969-71
                              Lighting Designer for PONYA, World Trade Center, 1972-76
                              Registrar, California College of Arts and Crafts, 1978-80
                              Software Design Engineer for Saudi Arabian Oil Company  1980-2000
                              Web Designer for Pacific Bell/SBC, Oakland 2000-2006

                              Russian Iconography Apprentice with Prosopon School, London  2007-2008

 

  

TRAVEL                     Born in Trinidad, British West Indies
                              Raised in London, Virginia, and Texas
                              Lived in eastern Saudi Arabia for twenty years
                              House and studio in Assisi, Italy

 

 

GRANTS                   Billups Scholarship
Superior Oil Scholarship
Rice University
Scholarship

 

 

AFFILIATIONS     British Association of Iconographers

 

BORN                       Port O’Spain, Trinidad & Tobago

 

 

COMMISSIONS   Medefinance, Inc. World Headquarters, Emeryville, CA

 

 

PUBLIC ART         Kharkov , Ukraine
Emeryville, CA