Books
2023
The Last Gayborhood
2022
SEX in the 11206
2020
Fourteen Schools in Fourteen Days
2019
You I See
On Grief
2018
Destination Wedding
Pictures and Words – The Sun Rises in The West and The Sun Sets in The East
Solo Exhibitions
2011
“Coming Home” Conner Contemporary Art, Washington DC
2007
“For Whites Only” Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, NY
2005
“Snow Queen” Conner Contemporary, Washington DC
2004
“Like A Virgin” Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, NY
2003
“Joe Ovelman” Daniel Silverstein Gallery, NY
Group Exhibitions
2024
“I'll Be Your Mirror: Reflections of the Contemporary Queer” Mighty Real/Queer Detroit,
Detroit, MI
2017
“Tracing Trajectories: Selections from the Wagner/Hoggard Col... ” Trestle Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2015
“Black Lives/White Light,” Recreative Spaces, Washington, DC
2009
“LiquidLine LineaLiquida LinhaLiquida,” Galeria Marta Traba, Fundacao Memorial Da America Latina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2008
“Gallery Artists, Inaugural Building Exhibition,” Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
“Straight to Hell…,” Exile Gallery, Berlin, Germany
“The Other Side,” 58 Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2007
“again: serial practices in contemporary art,” Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
“The Male Gaze” Nicholas Weist and Powerhouse Books, Brooklyn, NY
“The End is Nigh” Higher Pictures, NY
2006
“Bricks in da Hood” Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, NY
“Works on Paper” Hagan Saint Phillip Gallery, Bronx, NY
2004
“Seven More(things we love}” Conner Contemporary, Washington DC
“Collectors Cabinet” Mark Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles
2003
“5BE” Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, NY
“Seven (things we love)” Conner Contemporary, Washington DC
“K-48 NOW PLAYING” D’Amelio Terras, NY
2002
“Who Me? Role-Play in Self Portrait Photography” Zabriskie Gallery, NY
2001
“It’s a wild party and we’re having a good time” Paul Morris Gallery, NY
“Salon Style” Plusultra, Brooklyn, NY
2000
“Site Specifics 2000” Islip Art Museum, Long Island
“Living is Easy” Richard Anderson Fine Arts, NY
“Possession” Bill Bartman and Art Resources Transfer, NY
Special Projects
2018
Outlandish – This Filthy World “Dirty Disco Leopard Print Parking Lot Pop Up Shop” Palm Springs, CA
2015
Frieze New York, “My Way,” Curated by Michael St. John, Andrea Rosen Gallery, NY
2008
NEXT Fair, “If I Were President,” Conner Contemporary Art, Chicago
2005
ATM Gallery, “A One Day Show,” NY
Bartlett Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2004
Stray Art Fair, solo exhibition, Chicago
2002
Scope Art Fair, solo exhibition, Miami
PAID. (Khyber Kabob Restaurant, 10th Avenue at 22nd Street), NY
2001
2001 Seventeen Strangers/Subjugation, Hagan Saint Philip at The Chelsea Hotel, NY
2000
Gender ID, Nerve.com
Site-Specific Street Installations NYC
2006
Sao Paulo Wall
2004
First Map Wall
2003
Two Walls
2001
Poem Posting 2
Poem Posting
2000
Gagosian Wall- boys 4 spring
1999
Posting(F#@ting), On Broadway at Times Square
Ascension, “Limelight,” nightclub installation
White Wall, 521 West 20th Street
1998
Wooster Wall, Wooster Street at Greene
Urinal, nightclub installation
Bibliography
2024
"An Anti-Corporate, DIY Spirit Uplifts New Queer Art Biennial," Artnet, Michael Bullock, June 7.
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2018
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2017
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2012
“Reviews, Joe Ovelman,” Sculpture Magazine, Sarah Tanguy, June.
2007
“To Explore Race, Sometimes You Focus on the Explorer,” New York Times, Holland Cotter, February 3.
“Racialist Perspectives,” Gay City News, Wayne Northcross, February 1.
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2006
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2005
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2004
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2003
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2002
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2001
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2000
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Selected Collections
2007
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art