Joyce Billet
Joyce Billet is a French-American artist living and working in Miami, FL. Her background in architecture has encouraged her to play with material and scale in an effort to mix the sensations of painting and sculpture. Adhering to a strong craft tradition, she employs plywood as her main material and challenges the evolutionary trajectory it has undergone in the process. Billet embodies each piece with value and meaning, and in doing so, the highly industrialized plywood once stripped of identity and connection to nature, is repurposed in a second life. Billet graduated with a Bachelor’s in Architecture from Pratt Institute in 2008, and later received a Master of Science degree in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in 2010. Before committing to her artistic practice full-time, Billet worked as an architect. She has been featured in multiple exhibitions between Miami and New York, working with curators such as Karen Grimson, Omar Lopez Chahoud, Heather Darcy Bandhari, and others.
EDUCATION
2018 – 2019
Arts Intensive Program, New York School of the Arts
2014
Digital Sculpture, School of Visual Arts
2009 – 2010
Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia University
2006 – 2007
Visiting Student Program, Architectural Association, London
2004 – 2008
Bachelor of Architecture, Pratt Institute
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023
Chronicles from the Garden, The Collective 62, Miami, FL
Still There Are Seeds To Be Gathered, curated by Karen Grimson and Laura Novoa, Design District, Miami, FL
2022
Above the Ground, in collaboration with Center for Subtropical Affairs and FIU Robotics & Digital Fabrication Lab, supported by Villa Albertine (Special Project invited by Omar Lopez Chahoud, Untitled Art Fair, Miami, FL)
Art by Architect, curated by AIA, Center for Architecture, New York, NY
Under the Surface, artist residency and solo exhibition, Scribner’s, Hunter, NY
2021
Rising, curated by Omar Lopez Chahoud, Untitled Art Fair, Miami, FL
Patterns in Nature, online exhibition presented by Woart
The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, New York
And the Story Continues, curated by Grela Orihuela, Sagamore, Miami, FL Works on View, Par Excellence, New York, NY
2020
Everyone Has a Story to Tell!, curated by Grela Orihuela, Sagamore, Miami, FL
Sunday Painter x Missoni Baia, curated by Alex Nunez, Missoni Space, Miami, FL American Contemporary Craft, curated by Kathryn Gremley, LHUCA, Lubbock, TX
New Directions, curated by Nic Brierre Aziz (NOMA), Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
Gesture and Motion, curated by Margaret Carrigan, SITE: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
Works and Inspirations, The HUB Center for the Arts, New York, NY
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