Public Art & Collections

2023-24: Shout it to the Wind, El Camino College Temporary Outdoor Sculpture, Torrance, CA

2021-22: Nature of Sculpture II, Los Angeles County Arboretum, Arcadia, CA 

2018-22: City of Pasadena Public Art Exhibition Program III, Pasadena, CA 

2016:  Re:New Festival, a celebration of Creative Reuse, Sustainability, and Transformation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 9-October 9 • The Other Toy Story, North Wake County Multi-Material Recycling Facility, Raleigh, North Carolina, Temporary Project, June 4-August 31

2015: Finding Home, Collection of the Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, Michigan

2014: Tribute to Estelle Van Meter, Estelle Van Meter Community Center, Los Angeles, CA

2013-16: Elevate, Los Angeles International Airport Terminal 3, Los Angeles, CA

2005: Do You Remember?, Fairfax Branch Public Library, Los Angeles, CA.

1999: The Conjunction of 500 Wishes, Los Feliz Branch Public Library, Los Angeles, CA.

Selected Exhibitions

2023 • Blue Hour: Above & Below, curated by Kim Abeles, Altasea at the Port of Los Angeles, CA • Notions of Place, Angels Gate Art Gallery, San Pedro, CA • Telling Stories, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA

2022 • Migrant Madonna, co-curator and participating artist as part of MamaDotta collective, SoLA Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA • Poetry is not a Luxury, Minnesota Center for Book Arts

2021 • Nomad, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA • Pattern & Place, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA • Mash, curated by Mark Greenfield, South Los Angeles Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

2020 • Lines of Stitching, Southwest Community College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA • What is it about Trees? El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA • Poetry is not a Luxury, San Francisco Center for the Book

2019 • Poetry is not a Luxury, curated by Maymanah Farhat, Manhattan Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, (2020-21) • Artifacts of Place, Stand 4 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY • Homesite Recipe Exchange, Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA • Wall to Wall, Room A, Colonels Row House 410A, Governor’s Island, NY

2018 • Realms of Calligraphy, Four Arab Women Artists from Southern California, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Convention, Disney Hotel, Anaheim, CA • In the Beginning, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA

2017 • Refuge, Dysfunctional Collective House 8B, Nolan Park, Governor’s Island, NY, NY • Mother & Child, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA • Art and Conflict, Arvada Center for the Arts & Humanities, Arvada, CO • COLA 20, Celebrating the City of Los Angeles (COLA) Fellowship Program, Municipal Art Gallery, LA

2016: Guns, The Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles, CA • The Other Toy Story, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, North Carolina

2015: Ten: Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, Michigan

2014: Sustain Me Baby, Chris Jordan and Joyce Dallal, Storrs Gallery, UNCC, Charlotte, NC • Papered Over, Angel’s Ink Gallery, San Pedro, CA

2013: Textscapes, (solo show), Protea Gallery, San Diego, CA

2012: Escape from the Landfill, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA • Kit and Caboodle: Joyce Dallal and Edith Abeyta, Manhattan Beach Art Center, Manhattan Beach, CA • Breaking in Two (part of Getty Museum’s Pacific Standard Time) Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2011: The Other Toy Story (www.OtherToyStory.com) Marlborough School Seaver Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA

2010: An Idea Called Tomorrow, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA • Actions, Conversations, and Intersections, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2009: Flight, United Nations, Northeast Gallery, United Nations Visitors Lobby, NY, NY • Inspiration, Finegood Gallery, West Hills, CA • Group Think, Azusa Pacific University Art Gallery, Azusa, CA • 3 Solo Exhibitions, Offramp Gallery, Pasadena, CA

2008: Babel, Castillo del Alcala del Jucar, Alcala del Jucar, Spain • COLA 2008, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Hollywood, CA • Ancestral Memories, El Camino College, Torrance, CA • Piece Process, Pomegranate Gallery, NY, NY

2007: Steroscopic, Biola University Art Gallery, La Mirada, CA • Migration Studies, Phantom Galleries, Los Angeles, CA • The LA Story, Hebrew Union College Museum, NY, NY, Babylonian Women, Pomegranate Gallery, NY, NY  

2006: Makor/Source, USC and UCLA Hillel Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA   

2005: Imagining the Book II, 2nd International Biennale of Book Art, Bibliotheca Alexandrina Arts Center, Alexandria, Egypt • Sights of War, The Light Factory, Charlotte, North Carolina

2004: Too Jewish, Not Jewish Enough, Jewish Federation of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

2001: Three Words, an installation on the facade of the Fairfax Branch of the Los Angeles Public Libraries, (part of Six Degrees: Art in the Libraries, presented by Side Street Projects, Los Angeles, CA) • Exploring Los Angeles History, a collaborative project and exhibition with students from All Peoples Continuation High School, sponsored by the Heart Project, at the Mercado Paloma, Los Angeles, CA       • Inside Out/Outside In, a collaborative project and exhibition with students from Angeles Plaza Continuation High School, sponsored by the Japanese American National Museum, El Pueblo Gallery at Olvera Street, Los Angeles, CA   

2000: Apron Strings, coordinated by Angels Gate Cultural Center, El Camino College Gallery, Torrance, CA • Reproductive Filters, (as a member of the collaborative group M.A.M.A.), Weingart Gallery, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA • Nonzero Sum Games, (as a member of the collaborative group M.A.M.A.), The Project Room at the Brewery, Los Angeles, CA

1999: Digital Stories at the Edge of the New Millenium, in conjunction with SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles, CA

1998: Finding Home, a piece for the World Wide Web: http://www.janm.org/ffs/gallery/dallal/index.htm • L.A. Freewaves, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA • Finding Family Stories, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Skirball Cultural Center and Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, CA

1996: Blessings and Beginnings, Skirball Cultural Center and Museum, Los Angeles, CA • Ready to Wear, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA • Detours, Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA 

Fellowships, Awards, and Residencies

2010/11: Artist in Residence, Marlborough School, Los Angeles, CA

2009: Visiting Artist, Papercity Festival, Skein, Norway

2008: III Milenio Residencia Internacional Mirador del Jucar Instituto Rural del Arte, Spain

2008/05/01: Artists’ Resource for Completion Grant, The Durfee Foundation

2007/08: City of Los Angeles Individual Arts Fellowship (COLA)

1997: First Annual California Digital Arts Workshop participant, sponsored by the American Film Institute and the California Arts Council

1995: WESTAF/NEA Regional Arts Fellowship in Photography, Western States Arts Federation

1995: Brody Arts Fund Fellowship in Visual Arts, California Community Foundation

1991-92: City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Grant

Selected Publications

2019 • The Chart, Building Blocks:Toward a Translation of Artists’ Books at the Center for Book Arts, Ikram Lakhdhar, Reviews, Vol. 4, No. 4: Summer 2019 • Hyperallergic, Redefining Identity through Artists’ Books, Megan N. Liberty, 8/31/19

2017 • COLA 20, Commemorative catalog published by the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles • Textscapes, Exhibition catalog, published by Protea Gallery, San Diego, CA

2016: LA Weekly, The Gun Debate Invades an LA Art Gallery, Eva Recinos, 9/19/16 • Artillery Magazine, Gun Crazy: Playing with Fire at Liz’s Loft, Ezrha Jean Black, 9/30/16

2015: KCET Artbound Documentary, Cleared for Take Off, Public Art at LAX, https://vimeo.com/115787737

2014: Random Lengths News, Papered Over, Andrea Serna, 3/13/14 • KCET Los Angeles, Artbound, Cleared for Take Off, Public Art at LAX, Shana Nys Dambrot, 9/29/14

2013: LA Times, There’s an ‘Influx’ of Art into LAX, Jessica Gelt, 10/20/13 • LA Weekly, An Arts Festival at LAX. Yes LAX, Jean Lenihan, 10/1/13 • Huffington Post, 14 New Must-See Public Artworks Across the Globe, Artinfo, 12/22/13

2012: Santa Monica Daily Press, Meditation on Art and Motherhood, Sarah Spitz, February 12, p.7 • Breaking in Two, a Provocative Vision of Motherhood, exhibition catalog, Arena 1 Gallery

2008: COLA 2008 Individual Artist Fellowships, Exhibition Catalog, essay by Doris Bittar, published by the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles

• Encyclopedia of Arab American Artists, Artist of the American Mosaic, Fayed S. Oweis, Greenwood Press

2007: • Jewish Art in America, Matthew Baigell, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Md.

2005: Imagining the Book ll, Exhibition Catalog, published by the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt

2002: Urban Surprises: A Guide to Public Art in Los Angeles, edited by Gloria Gerace, published by the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department

1999: Los Angeles Times Sunday Calendar, A Proud Chapter (picture), Nicolai Ouroussoff, March 28, p.60

1998: Los Angeles Times, Valley Edition, Extended Family, Josef Woodard, March 12, Weekend Section, p.50 • Santa Barbara News-Press, Artists Explore their Past, Joan Crowder, February 22, Section D, p.1 • Finding Family Stories, Exhibition Catalog, essay by Louise Steinman

1996: Parallaxis, Fifty-Five Points to View, Artist Notes by Kathleen Shields, Western States Arts Federation publication • Los Angeles Times, Virtues of ‘Blessings’ Shine Over Problems, William Wilson, October 9, p. F6 • The Jewish Journal, Inspired Beginnings, Dianne Arieff Zaga, October 11-17  

Selected Activities

2019 • Artist talk and interview, Manahattan Center For Book Arts, NY, NY

2017 • Member, MamaDotta, Mother and Daughter Art Collaborative

2012: Bicycle Artist (thebicycleartist.com) April Workshop Artist, Los Angeles, CA

2007-09: Member, Piece Process, Arab and Jewish Artist Collaborative

2007: Panel Participant, DIWAN: A Forum for the Arts, Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, Michigan

2005: Visiting Artist Lecture, The Light Factory, Charlotte, North Carolina • Workshop Participant; Artist Lecture, Imagining the Book II, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt

2003: Visiting Artist Lecture, Orange Coast College Photography Department, Orange County, CA

2001: Television Interview, City Arts, City of Los Angeles Cable Station, Los Angeles, CA

1998: Conversations with the Artists, Finding Family Stories Exhibition, Self-Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, CA

1997: Panelist, UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, in conjunction with the exhibition Too Jewish           

Education

1990: MFA, University of Southern California

1979: Part-time Special Studies in Printmaking, Central College of Art, London, England

1978: BA Magna Cum Laude, University of California, Los Angeles

1976/77: Junior Year Abroad, Wimbledon School of Art, London, England