Education
2005 - Master of Fine Arts in Photography, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ - Summa Cum Laude
1999 - Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA - Distinction
Solo Exhibitions
2020 - On the Road with Peter and Joan, Gallery Aferro’s Social Media Takover
2017 - Beneath Such Dreamy Moments, The Wall: Paul Robeson Galleries at Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
2013 - Felix and the Meteor, Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg Gallery, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
2009 - Signal, Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg Gallery, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
2005 - Fresh Terrain, The VAB Gallery, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ
2004 - Fragments, Brooklyn Brewery, Williamsburg, NY
Public Art Commissions
2020 - On the Fritz, The Maker’s Space at Port City Mopeds, Portsmouth, NH
2015 - Morning, Late Afternoon, Midnight, Summit Public Art, Summit, NJ
2014 - Where the River Meets the Sky..., Public Art Commission, Two Trees and Brooklyn Bridge Park, NY
Selected Group and Traveling Exhibitions
2022 - How to Win at Photography: Image-Making as Play, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
2021 - How to Win at Photography, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
2019 - Open World: Video Games & Contemporary Art, Akron Art Museum, Ohio (Currier Museum, NH and Oklahoma Contemporary)
2018 - 29th Annual MassArt Benefit Auction, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2017 - Brooklyn, Long Beach Island Foundation for the Arts, Long Beach Township, NJ
2016 - Guide Ropes & Live Wires, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
2016 - 27th Annual MassArt Benefit Auction, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2014 - Sky, Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
2013 - Dumbo Arts Festival: Video Game Landscapes, 85 Washington Street, Brooklyn, NY
2013 - 24th Annual MassArt Benefit Auction, Bakalar and Paine Galleries, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2013 - For Art’s Sake Blank Canvas Benefit, Insider Salon, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
2012 - New Jersey Arts Annual 2012: New Media, New Forms, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
2012 - Digital Works, curated by Christiane Paul of the Whitney Museum, Long Beach Island Foundation for the Arts, Long Beach Island, NJ
2012 - Summer Artists Series, The Paper Mill Playhouse, Milburn, NJ
2011 - From the Collection of Patricia A. Bell, Neiman Marcus, Short Hills, NJ
2010 - International Juried Exhibition, curated by Susan Kismaric of MoMA, VACNJ
2009 - Tektonic, The Arts Guild of New Jersey, Rahway, NJ
2009 - My Eyes! Chashama Upper West Side, New York, NY
2009 - Beyond the Document: Color Field Photography, Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton, NJ
2008 - Video Dumbo, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
2008 - 1800 Frames: The Video State of the Global Union, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
2008 - Big White Institutionalized Box! Chashama, New York, NY
2008 - Photographic Education Conference, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
2008 - Fakes, Red Saw Gallery, Newark, NJ
2007 - In the Last Country of Refuge, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
2006 - Tropicalisms, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
2006 - Under 21, Gallery 21, Newark, NJ
2006 - Fields, Gallery Dupre, Montclair, New Jersey
2004 - Fresh Meat/Young Blood, The Shore Institute of Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ
2003 - College Art Association MFA Exhibition, Times Square Gallery at Hunter College, New York, NY
2003 - Contemporary Odyssey, Maliotis Cultural Center, Brookline, MA
1999 - Collective Vision, Artists for Humanity, Boston, MA
1999 - Twentyfive Photographers, Bad Girls Studio, Jamaica Plain, MA
Permanent Collections
2014 - University of Central Florida
Teaching Appointments
2014 to 2021 - New York Film Academy, New York, NY
2006 to 2018 - Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
2011 to 2014 - County College of Morris, Randolph, NJ
2005 to 2018 - New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ
2005 to 2017 - Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
Bibliography/Publications
2020 - The Boston Globe, “At the Currier, the under-traveled intersection of video games…”
2020 - Forbes Magazine, “Game (Almost) Over, Exhibit Connecting Video Games…”
2015 - Summit Independent Press, “Art of Pamboukes on Display at Bank Street Mini Park…”
2015 - Grand Views and Video Games: When Art is a Backdrop, Critique of “Where the River Meets the Sky..." by Leah Rabe, leahrabe.com
2013 - DAMn Magazine, “PACing It In” by Lyle Rexer
2013 - The New York Times, “Finding Inspiration in a Borrowed Past…”
2013 - Joan Pamboukes: Felix and the Meteor by Mary Birmingham
2012 - The New Jersey Star-Ledger, “New Jersey Fine Arts Annual: Going Digital and Beyond” by Dan Bischoff
2012 - Command+Shift+4, “All about Photography” (#28 Talent) by Ina Jang
2012 - Art 21.org, “Videogame Appropriation in Contemporary Art: Grand Theft Auto” by Mathias Jansson,
2012 - New Jersey Arts Annual 2012: New Media, New Forms, exhibition catalogue
2009 - Beyond the Document, ACP Quarterly, Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton, NJ
2006 - Tropicalisms: Subversions of Paradise and Other Commentaries by Rocio Aranda Alvarado, Curator
2006 - The New Jersey Star Ledger, “A Faculty of Diversity” by Dan Bischoff
2006 - “By Definition: a Language for Art” curated by Maya Lin and Tan Lin, NJCU Press
2005 - “Women on Campus: Gender and Popular Culture; Joan Pamboukes/Burning Love,” NJCU Press
Honors/Awards
2014 - Sky Award, Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
2012 - 3rd Prize, New Jersey Arts Annual 2012: New Media, New Forms
1999 - Art and Literacy Award from “Sharing Our Stories” teaching program
1999 - Albert Munsell Media & Performing Arts Award