Joi biographical name/ jo-Ee
photo by Mira Langan
Before the radio show, Joi has always been an artist.
And music has been the muse.
Since elementary school, Joi carried around her journal to draw her favorite cartoon characters,
but it was the ethos of the punk rock movement of the 1970s that heavily influenced her to pursue art and fashion in her teens.
Raised to be a DIYer, Joi is inspired by taking trash and turning it into.......art.
By incorporating items and images that are found in the everyday world, Joi creates an invitation to look at ordinary objects in an unordinary way.
Joi's artwork has been displayed in museums, galleries, film festivals, publications and public spaces such as Joslyn Art Museum, Cadillac Theater, Union Station Chicago and Millwork Commons.
Joi has worked in many art disciplines including painting, photography, screen printing and fashion design.
Her main discipline is video art, music video and experimental film.
Artist Portfolio
Creating Collages in Motion
Music provides a movement in how I storyboard out my video projects.
I feel like I'm translating a sound into a vision. Inspired by my surroundings, I document moments from mundane drives to exciting travel to capturing the unlikeliest of details that occur in every day life. By layering footage and creating video collages in motion by using the special effects found in every day life.
I feel like I'm translating a sound into a vision. Inspired by my surroundings, I document moments from mundane drives to exciting travel to capturing the unlikeliest of details that occur in every day life. By layering footage and creating video collages in motion by using the special effects found in every day life.
France is Sinking
My first official music video featuring the the music of Twilight Gallery
performed by Nate Wey and The Soft Colors
performed by Nate Wey and The Soft Colors
Dazed in a Detour
Featured at Benson Film Festival 2025
Video Art
Music Credit -"Drifting in America" by Twilight Gallery
Video Art
Music Credit -"Drifting in America" by Twilight Gallery
Interested in Video Work or Installations for your business? Let's chat.
Flower Arcade
Featured at Benson Film Festival 2024
Music by Nate Wey
Music by Nate Wey
City Night Desert Sky - Video Installation
film still from City Night Desert Sky
Untitled
Public Art Display
Millwork Commons 2024
Millwork Commons 2024
The Art of Presenting One's Self
Exhibited September 2021
MAMO Gallery
Omaha, Nebraska
How do you present yourself to the world?
The Art of Presenting One's Self (2021) is a mixed-media
installation grouped with photographic and silkscreen prints based on fashion, behavior economics and the environment. These works are inspired by my personal experience as a fashion consumer and as a fashion designer.
MAMO Gallery
Omaha, Nebraska
How do you present yourself to the world?
The Art of Presenting One's Self (2021) is a mixed-media
installation grouped with photographic and silkscreen prints based on fashion, behavior economics and the environment. These works are inspired by my personal experience as a fashion consumer and as a fashion designer.
The installation is intended to showcase a cycle of fashion using one common material. Displayed in three parts, the jungle installation represents the start and end of the fashion cycle.
Presented like a department window display, it is to create a juxtaposition of how the
consumer is lured to shop and how fashion trends can be easily be disposed of back into the environment. The photographs illustrate the effect of product placement through an editorial and social influence layout.
Throughout the exhibit, I repurposed grocery bags and transformed them into individual variations of designer handbags. By creating a hand-drawn version of the luxury fashion logo, Louis Vuitton, I applied a separate process to each bag. This is to demonstrate mass production and the influence of brands ranging from counterfeit designer goods to hand-crafted work.
The exhibition invites the viewer to reflect on what pieces do you gravitate to and why.
Contemplate what brands influence you and how do you use them to present yourself to the world.
Presented like a department window display, it is to create a juxtaposition of how the
consumer is lured to shop and how fashion trends can be easily be disposed of back into the environment. The photographs illustrate the effect of product placement through an editorial and social influence layout.
Throughout the exhibit, I repurposed grocery bags and transformed them into individual variations of designer handbags. By creating a hand-drawn version of the luxury fashion logo, Louis Vuitton, I applied a separate process to each bag. This is to demonstrate mass production and the influence of brands ranging from counterfeit designer goods to hand-crafted work.
The exhibition invites the viewer to reflect on what pieces do you gravitate to and why.
Contemplate what brands influence you and how do you use them to present yourself to the world.
From the Art of Presenting One's Self: Never Full Designer Paper Bag Project, silkscreen, reversed upcycled paper bags, July 2021
Staged Photography from The Art of Presenting One's Self: upcycled cardboard, handpainted purse and cup of noodles prop, August 2021
Staged Photography from The Art of Presenting One's Self: upcycled cardboard purse and beer can prop, August 2021
Each bag was created by hand on repurposed paper bags and cardboard to demonstrate the craftsmanship that goes into each product and offer reflection things that are handmade with luxury labels.
PAINTING
Maximalist Embroidery
Metamorphosis
Stop Motion video featuring in the opening credits on a Hit Record video on Climate Change in 2021.
Fashion Videos
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Joi's Artist CV
Est. 2001
Awards
Micro-Grant Recipient from Amplify Arts, April 2022
General Motors Design Award Recipient 2005
Joslyn Art Museum
Student Award Recipient 2001
PUBLICATIONS
Bodies of Stories book
Dopamine Daydream, Short story 2022
Ellements Magazine 2013
Omaha Magazine 2013
Omaha World Herald 2013
The Reader 2009
Models & Makes Magazine 2005
Micro-Grant Recipient from Amplify Arts, April 2022
General Motors Design Award Recipient 2005
Joslyn Art Museum
Student Award Recipient 2001
PUBLICATIONS
Bodies of Stories book
Dopamine Daydream, Short story 2022
Ellements Magazine 2013
Omaha Magazine 2013
Omaha World Herald 2013
The Reader 2009
Models & Makes Magazine 2005
Exhibits and Shows and Jobs
Joslyn Art MuseumPainting, 2001
Omaha Film FestivalFilmmaker 2002
IADT Fashion Show Designer, Union Station Chicago 2003
IADT Fashion Show Designer, Cadillac Theater Chicago 2005
Salon Fashion Show 2006Wardrobe Stylist
Self-Produced Fashion Show 2008Slowdown Concert Venue
Nebraska Aids Project Fashion Show 2008 Magnolia Hotel Omaha
Nebraska Aids Project Fashion Show 2009, Designer, Marriott Hotel Downtown Omaha
Omaha Fashion Week 2009- 2013, Designer, Omaha
RAW Artist Showcase 2014 Fashion show, Designer and Jewelry, The Admiral Auditorium
Local Maker Shows 2014 - 2016 , Designer, Fashion and Jewelry shows, Omaha, Venues Varied
Salon Show 2018 Art show, Split Gallery, Omaha
Video Creations 2019 -present Video collages stop motion,
Liv Shulman Performance Art 2020, Wardrobe, Bemis Art Center
“The Art of Presenting One’s Self” Solo Exhibit - Mamo Gallery Artist Residency September 2021- Multi-media installation, photography and silkscreen
“Metamorphosis” April 2022Stop Motion Film, “Talking about Climate Change” Hit Record Series
“Untitled” March 2023Stop Motion and video, public art display, Millwork Commons, Omaha, NE
“Flower Arcade” April 2024Short experimental film, Benson Film Festival
“Dazed in a Detour” April 2025
Music video, Benson Film Festival
Album Artwork, May 2025
Band Twilight Gallery, Song Drifting in America
Video Installation July 2025
Open Mic Night, Pageturners
Video Installation October 2025
Masa Luna restaurant
“France is Sinking” April 2026
Music Video premiere, Benson Film Festival
Contact me about art projects, podcast guest, installations, etc.