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Award winning artist and curator, Joyce Owens, has earned degrees from Howard University (B.F.A.) and Yale University (M.F.A.).

Owens has had solo exhibitions at Nicole Gallery in River North, Chicago, Concordia University, Wood Street Gallery, Elmhurst College and Chicago State University, among others. Juried and invitational exhibitions include the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, The Butridge Gallery in Austin, Tx., the NOVA exhibition in Chicago, the National Black Fine Art show in New York, Artjaz Gallery in Philadelphia, in
Minneapolis at Homewood Studios, in Chicago at Gallery Guichard and Neleh Galleries in Chicago’s Bronzeville area, and the Museum of Science and Industry’s annual juried Black Creativity exhibition where she has won First Prize and other awards. Owens' work has been represented in various national venues by Cheryl Sutton, Nicole Gallery and Gallery Guichard.

Owens' curatorial work, outside CSU, has included shows for Concordia University in River Forest, Il, Woman Made Gallery, The Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago, South Shore Cultural Center and the Art Center located in Highland Park, Il among others. Two of her Sapphire and Crystals efforts were selected as featured programs by the Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs during Chicago Artists Month, 2001 and 2005.

Two prizes Owens won in 2006 led to solo exhibitions at ARC Gallery (John Pittman Weber awarded her “Out of the Box” series Best in Show) and Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, where Margaret Hawkins, Sun-Times and Artnews art critic, selected from 1200 international entries. Owens' “Survivor Spirits” won First Prize and a solo exhibition in March 2007.

Owens is included in the Paul R. Jones, Daniel T. Parker, Patric McCoy, Susan Woodson, and other nationally and internationally recognized collections. Her work has been in the Spertes Museum in Chicago, The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Koehnline Museum at Oakton Community College.

Joyce Owens' writing has been published at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, The Journal of African American History and the Chicago Artists Resource. Her art is in many print publications, including newspapers, magazines, and catalogs, as well as TV, radio, videos and websites.