Joe Wardwell American, b. 1972

In 2022, Wardwell completed his first major public art project at the Boston Public Library, Roxbury Branch. His large-scale installations can also be found at prestigious venues such as the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, citizenM Hotels, Facebook Inc., the Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters in Norfolk, VA, and the Cape Cod Museum of Art.

Wardwell's paintings and drawings have been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA, the Rollins Museum, and the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, where his work is part of the permanent collection.

He has been honored with a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant for Painting and received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Boston University's School of Creative Arts. Wardwell's solo exhibitions in New York, New Haven, Boston, and Seattle have been reviewed by respected publications including Art Forum, Art in America, the Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, and Boston Magazine.

Joe Wardwell lives with his family in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood and maintains his studio in Dorchester, MA, continuing to explore new frontiers in contemporary painting and public art.