Biography

Joey Terrill

1955, Los Angeles, California.

Joey Terrill joins diverse mediums of zine-making, performance, printmaking, collage, and painting in a body of work that tenderly encompasses his intimate experiences of intersecting queer, Chicano and artistic communities. Drawing from the existing visual culture surrounding him, Terrill combines personal photographs, found pop cultural imagery and reproductions of artworks by queer predecessors to conjure utopian landscapes.

Recent Exhibit

JOEY TERRILL | STILL HERE

JANUARY 13 – MARCH 3, 2024

Marc Selwyn Fine Art

Press Release:  Marc Selwyn Fine Art is pleased to present Joey Terrill: Still Here the gallery’s first exhibition of work by the artist.[…]

COPY MACHINE MANIFESTOS: ARTISTS WHO MAKE ZINES

NOVEMBER 17, 2023–MARCH 31, 2024

Brooklyn Museum

Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines is the first exhibition dedicated to the rich history of five decades of artists’ zines produced in North America. […]

MADE IN L.A. 2023: ACTS OF LIVING

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Hammer Museum

Joey Terrill’s intimate, stylized figurative works, many of which were made amid the devastations of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and 1990s, depict gay Chicano men absorbed in the drama of desire. […]

ONCE UPON A TIME: PAINTINGS, 1981–2015

SEPTEMBER 10 – OCTOBER 23, 2021

 Ortuzar Projects

Press Release: Ortuzar Projects is pleased to present Once Upon A Time: Paintings, 1981–2015, the first solo exhibition of artist Joey Terrill in New York in forty years. […]

Joey Terrill