Joan Myers' photo archive is housed at the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas, Austin.
"Devil’s Highway - On the Road in the American West" Andrew Smith Gallery Arizona, LLC Exhibition Dates: December 10, 2022 – January 30, 2023.
"Joan Myers: The Devil's Highway" Obscura Gallery, Santa Fe, May 28-July 30, 2022
"The New West, An Old Story: Photographs by Joan Myers and Steve Fitch" The Turchin Center for Visual Arts, Boone North Carolina, January 21-June 4 , 2022 Video presentation
"Beneath our Feet," at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe, Mar 7, 2014 – Aug 17, 2014. Mixed Media – These feet are made for walking The Santa Fe New Mexican, Pasatiempo, article by Michael Abatemarco
Joan Myers: "The Jungle at the Door: A Glimpse of Wild India" September 26 - October 15, 2012 Andrew Smith Gallery
"The Jungle at the Door", Emerald Art Center, Springfield, Oregon Exhibit–August 1-31. Gallery Talk–Friday, August 31st at 6:30 PM "The Jungle at the Door", Linn-Benton Community College(South Santiam Hall Gallery), Albany, Oregon: Exhibit–September 1-21. Gallery Talk–Saturday, September 1st at 5:30 PM "Valley Of The Ancient Lake - Works Inspired by the Salton Sea" The Salton Sea History Museum. Joan Myers' images are part of an inaugural group exhibition of photographs and paintings. April 3, 2011 "Mapping a Green Future", through November 21, 2009, Santa Fe at the Center for Contemporary Arts "WATER PLANET : Beauty, Abundance, Abuse" September 5 - December 12, 2008, State Capitol of New Mexico, Santa Fe
"Wondrous Cold: An Antarctic Journey" Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., May 2006 and then toured the country. "Wondrous Cold: An Antarctic Journey" has completed its four-year tour, opening at the Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., and then traveling to an additional 15 venues. After closing, the exhibition was acquired by the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno as part of their Altered Landscape collection. November 27, 2010–April 3, 2011 in the museum's Hawkins Contemporary Gallery.
Brimstone Andrw Smith Gallery June 27- September 10, 2008
"Visions of Passage" Photographers, Writers, And the American Scene The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego CA, March 24-June 2, 2002 Berlin, Germany 2003 “Visions of Passage: Photographers, Writers and the American Scene" opened at the Museum of Photographic Art in San Diego and then traveled to Europe, Japan, and the U.S. "An exhibition of sweeping proportions, brings together 35 photographers and 15 writers who are among the finest in their fields to present unique artistic interpretations of American culture at the turn of the Millennium....Works were commissioned from photographers and writers over a five year period which explore cultural issues ...." - Museum of Photographic Arts
"Pie Town Woman" - A Touring Exhibit The Albuquerque Museum opened and toured "Pie Town Woman" throughout New Mexico. "Salt Dreams: Reflections from the Downstream West" - A Touring Exhibit "Salt Dreams", the exhibit, was organized and funded by the California Council for the Humanities. "Santiago: Saint of Two Worlds"- A Touring Exhibit The Albuquerque Museum opened and toured "Santiago: Saint of Two Worlds." De Santos Gallery, Houston, Texas, October 11-November 8, 2003 "Along the Santa Fe Trail"- A Touring Exhibit Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) tour included: the Nelson‑Atkins Museum of Art, Akron Art Museum, Albuquerque Museum, Colorado Historical Society "Whispered Silences"- A Touring Exhibit Smithsonian Instituton Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) tour included: the Japanese American National Museum, San Diego Museum of Photographic Art, California State University--Sacramento
Museum of Modern Art George Eastman House National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution Amon Carter Museum University of New Mexico Santa Barbara Museum of Art Atlantic Richfield Corporation Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento Sheldon Art Gallery, University of Nebraska Biblioteque Nationale Delaware Art Museum Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Iowa State University Fluor Corporation High Museum of Art, Atlanta Chase Manhattan Bank North Virginia Community College Minneapolis Institute of the Arts Denver Art Museum Kawasaki Museum, Tokyo Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles Microsoft Corporation New Orleans Museum of Art Wells Fargo Bank, Los Angeles St Louis Museum of Art Center for Creative Photography, Tucson Newport Harbor Art Museum Center for Creative Photography, Tucson High Museum of Art, Atlanta Delaware Art Museum Newport Harbor Art Museum
"The Devil's Highway" Obscura Gallery, Santa Fe, May 28-July 30, 2022 2006-2010 Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) show of "Wondrous Cold: An Antarctic Journey" 2003 Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe 2003 DeSantos Gallery, Houston 2002-2003 Albuquerque Museum show and tour of "Pie Town Woman" 2001-2002 California Council for the Humanities tour of "Salt Dreams" 1998 Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe 1996-1998 Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) tour of "Whispered Silences" (including Japanese American National Museum, San Diego Museum of Photographic Art, California State University--Sacramento) 1996 Port Washington Public Library, New York 1994 Vision Gallery, San Francisco 1994 Salt Lake City Art Museum, Salt Lake City 1993 Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 1993 Corpus Christi University, Corpus Christi 1993 Linda Durham Gallery, Santa Fe 1992 Rice University Media Center, Houston 1992 Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque (Traveling Show of "Santiago: Saint of Two Worlds") 1991 Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1991 Audubon Naturalist Center, Chevy Chase, Maryland 1989 Linda Durham Gallery, Santa Fe 1988 Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock 1987 Center for Creative Photography, Tucson 1987 Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan 1998 Griffith Art Gallery, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas 1986-1989 Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) tour of "Santa Fe Trail Series" (including Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Akron Art Museum, Albuquerque Museum, Colorado Historical Society 1986 Linda Durham Gallery, Santa Fe 1986 Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, New York 1985 Dallas Public Library, Dallas 1984 Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs 1984 Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, CA 1983 University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 1982 Etherton Gallery, Tucson 1982 Sheldon Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln 1982 California State University, Long Beach 1981 Equivalents Gallery, Seattle 1981 Linda Durham Gallery, Santa Fe 1981 Galerie Perspectives, Paris, France 1981 Mancini Gallery, Philadelphia 1980 Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, California 1979 Mancini Gallery, Houston 1979 Port Washington Public Library, New York 1978 Stanford University Museum, Stanford, California 1978 Photopia, Philadelphia 1977 Thackrey and Robertson, San Francisco
1984 Port Washington Public Library, New York 1981 Galerie Montesquieu, Agen, France 1981 Galerie Arpa, Bordeaux, France
2008 "Women to Watch" at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. , March 14-June 15, 2008. 2007 "Weather Report: Art and Climate Change," Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado 2006 "Antarctica." Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto 2005 "The Noble Metals: Platinum / Palladium," The International Photography Hall of Fame / Museum, Oklahoma City 2004 "Wanderers, Travelers, and Adventurers," MOPA, San Diego 2002 "Visions of Passage: Photographers, Writers and the American Scene," Museum of Photographic Art, San Diego (traveling to Europe, Japan, and the U.S.) 2002 "Re-Viewing Photography," Allegheny College (traveling thereafter) 2001 "A Handful of Soldiers: the Story of V Site and the Implosion Detonator," Governor's Gallery, Santa Fe 1999 "The Altered Landscape," Nevada Museum of Art, Reno (then traveling) 1998 "Picturing History: Manzanar," Friends of Photography Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco 1997-1998 "Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century," St. Louis Art Museum (traveling to Fine Arts Museum, Santa Fe; Mead Art Museum, Amherst) 1997 Alternatives," Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1997 Figuring the Body," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 1996 "Perpetual Mirage: Photographic Narratives of the Desert West," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1996 "History as Influence: Photographic Pluralism," Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine (touring Ukraine) 1996 "Silver Traces," Boston Photo Collaborative, Boston 1995 "Insight: Women's Photographs," George Eastman House, Rochester 1995 "Kissing," G.Ray Hawkins Gallery (traveling to New York City, Denver and Portland) 1994 "The Kiss," Mitsukoshi Gallery, Tokyo (traveling to Osaka and Nagoya, then Denver, N.Y., Portland, Dallas, Atlanta and Hong Kong) 1994 "Private Identity and Public Conscience," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 1993 "Crossing Territories," Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe 1992 "Representatives," Center for Creative Photography, Tucson 1992 "Contemporary American Photography Masters," Cinema Center, Moscow 1992 "Artists of 20th Century New Mexico," Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe 1992 "The Country Between Us: Contemporary American Landscape Photographs," Huntington Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston 1991 "21 Photographers from New Mexico," Vision Gallery, San Francisco 1989 "Contemporary Photography in New Mexico," Taos Art Association, Taos 1989 "Current Trends in American Photography," Chinese Photographers Association, Canton, China 1988 "American Documentary," Kawasaki Museum, Tokyo 1988 "Vistas/Contemporary Southwestern Art," Zimmerman-Saturn Gallery, Nashville 1988 "The Feminine Touch," Thomas Fine Arts, Pasadena 1988 "Explicit Image II," Caroline Lee Gallery, Houston 1986-1988 "Third Western States Exhibition," Western States Arts Foundation Traveling Show (including Brooklyn Museum, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Yellowstone Art Center, Museum of SouthTexas) 1987-1988 "Reclaiming Paradise: American Women Photograph the Land," Tweed Museum of Art Traveling Show, Duluth, Minnesota 1986 "A Breath of Light," New Jersey State Museum, Trenton 1985 "New Mexico Photographic Survey," Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1985 "Contemporary Portrait Photography," Mills House, Santa Ana College, Garden Grove, California 1985 "Women of the American West," Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut 1984 "Twentieth Century Nudes," Eclipse Photographics, Boulder, Colorado 1984 "The Palladium Print Today," Laurie Klein Gallery, Brookfield, Connecticut 1983 "The Fine Print," Oklahoma Museum of Fine Art, Oklahoma City 1983 "Plants and Flowers," Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, New York 1983 "Particulars: Selections from the Miller-Plummer Collection of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester 1983 "International Photographers," Eaton Shoen Gallery, San Francisco 1982 "Earth, Clay, Stone: The Photographer's View of Southwestern Architecture," Phoenix Art Museum 1981 "Beyond the Valley of Photography," Corpus Christi State University Art Museum, Texas 1981 "California: The State of Landscape, 1872-1981," Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California (traveling to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1980 "Women/Image/Nature," Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia 1980 "Transparences," Galerie Viviane Esders, Paris 1979 "The Contemporary Platinotype," Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 1979 "Color in Question," Catskill Center for Photography, Woodstock, New York 1979 "The Nude," Kiva Gallery, Boston 1978 "The Male Nude," Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, New York
2022 The Devil's Highway By Joan Myers with a short story by William deBuys, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, 2022
1991-1992 "Concentrated Images," (on the Japanese Relocation Camps) for Musician, Poet and Visuals with Greg Steinke and Lawson Inada
2003 Eliot Porter Grant from the New Mexico Council on Photography 2002 Antarctic Artists and Writers Grant from the National Science Foundation 2001 Best Illustrated Trade Book Award from the Publishers Association of the West for Pie Town Woman 2000 William P. Clements Prize for the Best nonfiction Book on Southwestern America for Salt Dreams 1998 "The National Millennium Survey," organized by James Enyeart, director of the Marion Center, College of Santa Fe 1997 "Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America" for Whispered Silences 1996 "Golden Globe Award" for Whispered Silences from the Maine Photographic Workshops 1990 Artist Projects grant funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Arizona Commission on the Arts 1982 National Endowment for the Arts Survey Grant
