Draft:Mario Joyce

Mario Joyce (born April 11, 1985) is an American contemporary visual artist based in Los Angeles, California. He is known for his vibrant and thickly impastoed oiling paintings which also include genealogical research, soil from the Ohio farm he grew up on and vintage collage materials ultimately blending figuration and abstraction on canvas. His work focuses on ancestry, heritage, and social and cultural awareness, specifically in Queer and Black communities.

Joyce is a 2023 alum of the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Madison, Maine. He completed Pratt Institute's, Pratt>FORWARD, a residency at New Lab in Brooklyn Navy Yard initiated by Mickalene Thomas and Jane South. In 2022, Joyce opened his very well recieved exhibition “A Stranger’s House That Is Our Own" with UTA Artist Space in Atlanta’s historical Pullman Yards. . His 2023 solo exhibition “Gravity” was with Sakhile&Me in Frankfurt, Germany, the artists first solo exhibition in Europe . His 2024 exhibition “Amaryllis’ Garden” was held at UTA Artist Space in Beverly Hills celebrating his great grandmother's urban garden