Joe Mckay
b.1970, Swansea, Wales, lives and works in New York
Solo Exhibitions
2016 One 2 One, The Bret Llewellyn Art Gallery at Alfred State College (Alfred, NY)
2015 Away From Keyboard, (collaboration with Kristin Lucas), Postmasters Gallery, New York (New York, USA)
Tablet Tumbler, (collaboration with Kristin Lucas), Postmasters Gallery, New York (New York, USA)
Play: In Three Acts highlights, Beall Center for Art + Technology, University of California Irvine (California, USA)
Joe McKay, The Bret Llewellyn Art Gallery at Alfred State College, Alfred, NY (New York, USA)
2014 Light Wave, Pari Nadimi Gallery (Toronto, Canada)
2013 Light Wave, Humanities Gallery, Long Island University, curated by Nancy Grove (New York, USA)
2010 Pari Nadimi Gallery (Toronto, Canada)
BigTime, Berkeley Art Museum, online http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/ (Berkeley, US)
2007 Loss of Signal, VertexList (Brooklyn, USA)
2004 Loading, VertexList, (New York, USA)
2001 The Electric Donut, (with Kristin Lucas), New Museum of Contemporary Art, Media Z Lounge (New York, USA)
The Electric Donut, (with Kristin Lucas), Gallery 400 (Chicago, US)
2000 May Show, Project Space, Sculpture Center (New York)
Group Exhibitions
2015 Play: In three Acts, Beal Center for art and Technology, UC Irvine, CA
2014 Eybeam Winter Showcase, Eyebeam (New York, USA)
Buttons, Northern Southern Gallery (Austin, USA)
Ways of Something, screening, Oude Kerk (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2013 Sound in Space, MoMA Studio, MoMA The Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA)
Signals Now, Rochester Contemporary Art Center (Rochester, NY, USA)
Two person show with Kristin Lucas, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College (Vermont, USA)
2012 Thanks for Sharing, The Tremaine Gallery, Hotchkiss School CT, curated by Greg Lock (Lakeville, CT, USA)
Tablet Tumbler, Mediations Biennale (Poland)
2011 Playstation, Postmasters Gallery, curated by Magdalena Sawon (New York, USA)
Tricked, CultureFix, curated by Lia Woertendyke (New York, USA)
Spiral Bound: notebooks by artists from New York and San Diego, National University (San Diego, USA)
2010 The Future Is Not What Is Used To Be, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, curated by Magdalena Sawon (Warsaw, Poland)
Matt and Jude Bowl, More than Super (Queens, NY, USA)
MADE IN INTERNET, ARTBOOM festival, curated by Marcin Ramocki (Krakow, Poland)
2009 SISYPHUS OFFICE, Skydive (Houston, USA)
the future is not what it used to be, Postmasters Gallery (New York, USA)
Aesthetics of Gaming, PACE University (New York, USA)
Realtime, online Rhizome commission
2008 Schematic: New Media Art from Canada, Space (London, England)
RESET/PLAY, Arthouse (Austin, USA)
TRY AGAIN, La Casa Encendida (Madrid, Spain)
Off the Grid, Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, NY, USA)
Deadpan III, The Lab, performance (San Francisco, USA)
2007 The return of Balance (with Greg Niemeyer), The Falaki Gallery (Cairo, Egypt)
Fermata, Berkeley Art Museum (Berkeley, USA)
8-bit screening, and Big Ups demonstration, PFA (Berkeley, USA)
2006 The Golden Hour, Gigantic Art Space (New York, USA)
NextNew 2006: Art and Technology, ICA (San Jose, CA, US)
2005 Six Outdoor Projects at LIU, Long Island University (Brooklyn, New York)
Code Residue, VertexList (Brooklyn, New York)
Iam5, Parkers Box International Art Fair (Brooklyn, New York)
The Color Game, screening at the Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, USA)
2004 Game Overature II, Free 103.9 (Brooklyn, New York)
The Infinite Fill Show, Foxy Production (Brooklyn, New York)
Presence of Light, Berkshire Museum (Pittsfield, New York)
Color Game, WeeWerks (Toronto, Canada)
2003 Outpost, Smack Mellon Gallery (New York, USA)
Radiator Festival (Nottingham, England)
transmediale.o3 (Berlin, Germany)
Animations, Kunstwerk (Berlin, Germany)
ZKM, Robots No Follow (video) (Karlsruhe, Germany)
2002 Prosthesis, (with Matt Freedman), im n iL Gallery (Brooklyn, New York)
2001 Animations, P.S.1 Contemporary Art (Brooklyn, New York)
Stand Clear, Art in General (New York, USA)
Whitney Independent Study Program, Year End Show, kinetic sculptures, performance (New York, USA)
2000 Simulcast Convention 2000: New York, (with Kristin Lucas, Sally McKay, Tim Hirzel, and DJ Mr. E), Postmasters Gallery (New York, USA)
Proposals from Halifax, National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Canada)
Church of What's Happenin' Now, Simulcast Convention 2000: Columbus, Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH, US)
Joe McKay / Sandy Plotnikov, YYZ (Toronto, Canada)
Bibliography
Ashley, Chris "introducing…", NYFA Interactive (nyfa.org) 2006
Cotter, Holland "Sampling Brooklyn, Keeper of Eclectic Flames", New York Times, Jan 23, 2004
“Goings on About Town”, New Yorker, July 7th 2003
Lutker, Shana "The Electric Donut" New Art Examiner, , January - February 2002, p.67
Awards/Residencies
2016–17 Juanita and Joseph Leff Senior Faculty Research Award, SUNY Purchase
2014 Faculty Support Award, SUNY Purchase
2007/2008 Headlands MFA awardee
2006 Eisner Award, UC Berkeley
Education
2007 UC Berkeley, Practice of Art MFA
2000-2001 Whitney Independent Study Program
1989-1993 BFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Major in Studio, Minor in Art History