Joanne Ross’s visual art practice encompasses archival research, photography, installation, drawing and narrative. She traces themes of cultural history and memory; questions notions of identity, attachment, and place. Ross accesses both real and invented memories as a means to create associations. She excavates, alters, and abstracts fragments from autobiographical and shared photographic images. Enlarged, grainy image pieces are redrawn to create new meaning. Projects document juxtapositions of objects, people, and place. Installations recontextualize artifacts, photographs, and micro-narratives. Her poetic social critiques reflect on loss, longing, and desire. Each work builds on a scaffold of fragility, hidden emotion and fleeting moments of time.

Awards/grants include the New York Foundation for the Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, PBS Art 21, National Endowment for the Humanities and Earthwatch. One-person exhibitions include the Nave Museum in Victoria, Texas, William R. Morrow Gallery at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Center for Visual Arts, Metropolitan State University and the Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University. Select group exhibitions include ArtHelix in Brooklyn, Forward Union Fair, Exit Art, 92nd Street Y, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, New Jersey City University and MMC at Marymount Manhattan College in New York. Her photographic work is in the Bank of America LaSalle Collection, Visual Studies Workshop Archive, Rochester, New York and private collections.

Joanne holds a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the State University of New York at Buffalo/Visual Studies Workshop, Masters of Science in Art Education from Syracuse University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art Education from the State University of New York at Buffalo State College. Joanne serves on the Artist Advisory Committee of the Board of Trustees at Guttenberg Arts, a non-profit artist residency program in Hudson County, New Jersey. Joanne lives and works in Nutley, New Jersey and Equinunk, Pennsylvannia.