Description: Joy Amina Garnett is an artist and writer in Los Angeles. Her stories have appeared in Nashville Review, Evergreen Review, Ping-Pong, Rusted Radishes, Full Blede, Two Coats of Paint, and The Artists’ and Writers’ Cookbook (powerHouse Books, 2016). She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and Atlantic Center for the Arts. Garnett has received grants from…
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Joy Amina Garnett is an artist and writer in Los Angeles whose work explores forgotten histories through archival materials. Her recent projects draw on the life and work of her late maternal grandfather, Egyptian poet and bee scientist Ahmed Zaky Abushady (1892-1955). Her writings have appeared in Arab Urbanism Magazine (forthcoming in 2023); Evergreen Review (New York); Rusted Radishes (Beirut); Full Blede (Los Angeles); Stat®rec (New York/Berlin); Virilio and Visual Culture (Edinburgh University Press);
Garnett’s paintings have been exhibited at the FLAG Art Foundation , MoMA PS1 , Whitney Museum , Artists Space , Smack Mellon , White Columns (NY), the Milwaukee Art Museum , Museum of Contemporary Craft Portland (OR), Boston University Art Gallery, National Academy of Sciences (Washington, DC), and the Witte Zaal (Ghent, Belgium). She has received grants from Anonymous Was a Woman , Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Wellcome Trust (London, UK), and the Chipstone Foundation (Milwaukee, WI). Her work is