Born in Brooklyn, lives and works in New York
The New York Studio School
1997
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award
1996
Guggenheim Fellowship
1995
New York Foundation for the Arts
1992
Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation
2009
Capitain Petzel, Berlin
2008
Friedrich Petzel, New York
2007
The Eraser, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2006
This Must Be The Place, Parker's Box, Brooklyn
2004
Isabella Brancolini Contemporary Art, Florence
2003
Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York
2001
Windows Gallery, Brussels
2000
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
C&C Gallery, Buenos Aires
1999
Flipside, Brooklyn
1998
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
1997
DiverseWorks, Houston
1996
Biever-Risch Galerie, Luxembourg
Drawings, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
1995
Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1994
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
Galerie Domi Nostrae, Lyon, France
Hotel Bouhier de Savigny, Fondation Art&Société, Dijon
2009
Carnival Within, Berlin
2008
Kunst im Heim, Capitain Petzel, Berlin
Blue Balls, APF LAB conceived by Jackie Saccoccio, New York (with Christopher Wool)
Black, G Fine Art, Washington D.C.
Emerson vs Nietzsche, China Art Objects Galleries at Cottage Home, Los Angeles
No Images of Man, Gering & Lopez Gallery, New York
Collection of Florence& Daniel Guerlain, Fonds regional d'art contemporain de Picardie, Amiens
Collection of Florence& Daniel Guerlain, Cultural Services of the French Embassy, New York
2007
Alice Mahler, Drawings and an Object/Joyce Pensato: Recent Drawings, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St.Louis
2006
Mickey dans tous ces états, Hotel Dassault- Artcurial, Paris
Getting on Mother's Nerves: Psychological Drama and Contemporary Drawing, Mother's Tankstation, Dublin
Il était une fois Walt Disney, aux sources de l'art des studios Disney, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris
B-Side, Sarah Bowen Gallery, Brooklyn
Objecting to the eye with Jamie McMurry & Joyce Pensato, Angela Hanley, Los Angeles
Studio Visits, Exit Art, New York
Tennewpaintings, Parker's Box, Brooklyn
2008
Galleries-Chelsea: Joyce Pensato, The New Yorker, December 22-29, 2008, p.24
Saltz, Jerry, no Images of Man, Nymag.com, August 25, 2008
Baker, R.C., Retro Man, Village Voice, July 9-15, 2008, p.36
Ilic, Velimir, Art preview: think before you shop, Metro.co.uk, June 26, 2008, (ill.)
Collection of Florence & Daniel Guerlain, exhibition catalogue, Cultural Services
of the French Embassy, New York, p.55-56 (ill.)
Saltz, Jerry, Emerging, After All These Years, New York Magazine, February 4, 2008, p. 72-73 (ill.)
Robinson, Walter, Weekend update, January 21, 2008, p.16(ill.)
Baker, R.C., The Eyes Have It, village Voice, January 9-15, 2008, p.48(ill.)
2007
Volk, Gregory, In the Neighbourhood: joyce Pensato's Recent Paintings, exhibition catalogue, The Eraser, Friedrich Petzel, Gallery, New York
Medium Cool: Joyce Pensato, Time Out New York, December 27, 2007-January 2, 2008,p.72
Impulse: Works on Paper, The Logan Collection Vail, 2007, Catalogue, pp.14(ill.)
Liu, Andrea, American Psycho: Bugs Bunny on Heroin, NY Arts, July-August 2007(ill.)
Maine, Stephen, Toon Noir, Art in America, June-July 2007, pp. 194-95
Bonetti, David, Schmidt Contemporary Art: Charcoal Artists, March 4, 2007, St.Louis Post Dispatch
2006
Schmerler, Sarah, Joyce Pensato, Time Out New York, November 2-8, 2006, p.94(ill.)
Joyce Pensato, The New Yorker, November 20, 2006, p.18
Smith, Roberta, Art in Review: The Studio Visit, The New Yorker Times, February 24, 2006(ill.)
Crawford, Holly, Attached to the Mouse: Disney and Contemporary Art, University Press of America, Inc., pp.12-13, p.41, pp. 162-163
2003
Princenthal, Nancy, Joyce Pensato at Elga Wimmer, Art in America, May 2003(ill.)
1998
Schmerler, Sarah, Paint, Time Out New York, April 9-16, 1998
1997
Conter, Celine, When Mickey and Donald turn wild, Leuxemburger Wort, Novemeber 19, 1997
Levin, Kim, Work in Progress, The Village Voice, April 22, 1997
Anspon, Catherine, Mickey Meets Abstract Expressionism, Public News (Houston), February 12, 1997
1996
Deans, Jeannie, Jocye Pensato, Bomb, Winter 1996
Princenthal, Nancy, Joyce Pensato and Scott Burton, Art in America, january 1996
1995
Schwabsky, Barry, Joyce Pensato, Artforum, October 1995
Bern, Martin, Aspirin auf Holz, vinyl auf Folie: Malerei der 90er jahre an eine Grenze gelangt, Salzburger Nachrichten, March 11, 1995
New Paintings, The New Yorker, January 1995
1994
Wylie, Charles, It's a Tough World Out There: Drawings by Mike Kelly, Joyce Pensato & Raymond Pettibon, The Print Collector's Newsltter, November-Decemeber 1994
Duffy, Robert, Tears and Smiles: Intimately linked, St.Louis Post Dispatch, April 14, 1994
Kreis, Elfi, Verlass mich nicht, Tagesspiegel (Berlin), April 27, 1994
1993
Bedrohlicher als die bellende Tole: Kunst in Berlin, Die Tageszeitung, April 17, 1993
Pardee, Hearne, Making Connections: Approaches to Space in Drawing, Maier Museum of Art 82nd, Annual Exhibition, February 1993
1992
Jouannais, Jean-Yves, Obsessions, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Art Press, No. 174, November 1992
Bonami, Francesco, News: Panorama NYC, Flash Art, Vol.XXV, No. 166, October 1992
Voice Choices: Mssr. B.'s Curio Shop, The Village Voice, July 14, 1992
Group Exhibiton, The New Yorker, July 6, 1992
Cotter, Holland, Paul McCarthy, Joyce Pensato, Arnulf Rainer, The New York Times, july 17, 1992
Smith, Roberta, Art in Review: The Curio Shop, The New York Times, July 3, 1992
1990
Framing Cartoons, The Vilage Voice, July 11-17, 1990
1986
Zimmer, William, The Potent Image, The New York Times, November 9, 1986
1985
Twentieth Anniversary Retrospective Exhibition, The New York Times, May 24, 1985
1984
Brenson, Michael, Inspirit, The NEw York Times, Decmeber 21, 1984