Joerael Numina (b.1980 TX. USA)
Member of " The Broken Symmetry Society" The Santa Fe Institute
Founder of Mobilize Walls, www.mobilizewalls.com
Education
The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Industrial Design Technology- 2000-2002
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018 A Clip of Petals, Center For Contemporary Art, Santa Fe
2017 I Am the Highway, Keep Contemporary, Santa Fe
2016 Gate Flood Keeper, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe
2011 Gypsy Dust, Film Bar PHX, Phoenix
2008 Cycles of Beauty, The Ice House, Phoenix
2004 Untitled, Monorchid Gallery,Phoenix
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Home Mural Fest, Online Global
2019 Meeting of Styles, Bangkok, Thailand
2018 Bridging Boundaries, Corcoran School of Design, Washington DC
2017 CRUSH Walls 2017, Denver
2017 ENSO, Keep Contemporary, Santa Fe
2017 Extraction Zones Exhibition and Symposium, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe
2017 Render Bender, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe
2016 Tributaries UNM Land Arts of the American West, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe
2016 New Imagists of the South West, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe
2015 Paint PHX Mural Festival, Phoenix
2014 Jack, The R&R Gallery, Los Angeles
2012 Salad Days, The R&R Gallery, Los Angeles
2011 Cowboys and Indians, The R&R Gallery, Los Angeles
2010 Painted Desert Project, Navajo Nation AZ
2005 Hurricane Relief Benefit, The Ice House, Phoenix
2005 Proper Gander,s Seven Year anniversary show, Gallery Lombardi, Austin
2002 Unentertainment, CMU Alumni Concert hall, Pittsburgh
2002 Making a Scene, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh
Selected Commercial work
2021 PSS Design Cult, John Legend Home, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Sky Railway, Exterior Murals, Santa Fe, NM
2021 The Santa Fe Institute, Complex Time Mural, Santa Fe, NM20
2020 Tin Can Alley, Santa Fe Brewing Company, ABQ, NM
2019 MASS Design group & SNCC Mural, Santa Fe, NM
2019 One Down Dog, Interior Murals, Los Angeles, California
2019 LIFEWTR ART BRNS, Texas hill country, Exterior Mural
2019 Deviance Skate Supply, Wichita Falls TX. Exterior Mural
2019 Bradbury Science Museum & Los Alamos Labs, Los Alamos, NM, Curiosity Rover mural for outreach program
2018 LUX Capital, Interior Mural, New York NY
2017 One Down Dog, Design consultation, large scale interior/exterior mural work, LA
2017 March for Science, Illustration Poster, Santa Fe NM
2017 Lightwave Coffee, Murals, Branding and Website, Los Angeles
2016 Make Santa Fe, Interior Mural, Meow Wolf Complex Santa Fe
2016 The Santa Fe Institute, Illustration & Fine Art, Santa Fe
2015 Prajna Yoga, Social Media/ Photographer, Santa Fe
2011-14 Elabrew Coffee, Art Director , Fabrication and design of interior/exterior spaces, Branding, LA
2014 Blue Collar Working Dog, Design Consultation and Large scale Interior/Exterior mural work, LA
2014 LuLu Lemon, Mural Window Display, Glendale CA
2013-14 One Down Dog, Design consultation, large scale interior/exterior mural work, LA
2013 Volley Shoes/ Conveyor at Fred Segal, Collaborative Mural,Santa Monica
2013-14 Tara Napolis Power Yoga, Large scale interior mural work, Pasadena
2012 Intelligentsia Coffee, Exterior mural work, Pasadena
2012 Core Club LA, Interior mural work, LA
2011 Film Bar PHX, Large scale interior murals, Phoenix
2009 Kotchy, “89 LP” “Sing what you want EP” “I’d have to be high EP” Artwork, Civil Music, London
2002-08 Nielsen Diversified Inc., Production art designer and painter, “Art appeared on Bravo’s “Kathy
Griffin's My Life on the D-List” and MTV’s “Cribs”
Bibliography
Pasatiempo, The Walls that Surround us, Jennifer Levin March 13, 2020 Cover Story
Yoga Journal, Noble Art, Lindsay Tucker Dec 13, 2019
ABQ Journal, Visual Artist Joerael Elliott works to foster a creative culture, April 15, 2016 p.6
Phoenix Magazine, Artist of the Month, February 2011,p.50
Phoenix New Times, Cover, 2010
Booth-Clibborn, Edward, PHX 21rst Century City, Booth-Clibborn Editions 2006, p.76+77
Thrasher Skateboarding Magazine, Volume 25 Issue 13 2005 p.98+99
: Mellisa Morrison“Walk Like a Mathematician ”Shade Magazine, Oct. Nov. 2004 p.16
The Proper Gander Comics and Such, 1998-2006
Web
-Place, DC App spotlights American landmarks 'with a native twist' 2019, Carey L. Biron
-Tele Matin, US News Joerael Mural Artist, 2019
- WUSA9 CBS, You can now tour DC's Indigenous history with an app on your phone, 2019
- GWU,The Ground Floor of the Corcoran gets a Historically Significant Addition 2019, Aseeli Coleman
-Belles & Rebelles 2019 , Joerael Numina X Mobilize Walls,
-Texhoma's Homepage 2019, New Downtown Mural Nearly Complete, Curtis Jackson,
-Santa Fe Reporter 2019, Against the Wall , Alex DeVore
-News One 2017, Colin Kaepernik Inspires One Muralist to Push back against Trump, Clarissa Hamlin
-WGAX 2017, Mercer Village Mural tells story about Civil Rights Throughout History, Jennifer Munoz
http://wgxa.tv/news/local/mercer-village-mural-tells-story-about-civil-rights-throughout-history
-Medium 2017, Art that Moves, Sophie Peel
-The Telegraph 2017, What is the Meaning Behind the Mural in Mercer Village?, Matthew Causey
http://www.macon.com/news/local/community/article189577339.html
-The Santa Fe New Mexican "Pasetiempo", Beyond the Wall: Street Art Comes Inside, Jennifer Levin
- Colorado CRUSH 2017, " Amoeba Blog" Billy Jam
Brooklyn Street Art, "BSA Film Friday" 2017
http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/2017/04/07/bsa-film-friday-04-07-17/
- ABQ Journal North, The Zen of Graffit at the CCA, March 24, 2017
https://www.abqjournal.com/975142/the-zen-of-graffiti.html
-ABQ Journal North, Social Time for Water, November 18, 2016
https://www.abqjournal.com/891713/social-time-for-water.html
-ABQ Journal North, Murals Liven up Santa Fe's Lena Street, October 27, 2016
https://www.abqjournal.com/876638/murals-liven-up-santa-fes-lena-street.html
-Forbes, Visualizing Complexity Science: An Interview With Visual Artist Joerael Elliott, June 27, 2016
-ABQ Journal North, Visual Artist Joerael Elliott works to foster a creative culture, April 15, 2016
http://www.abqjournal.com/757456/entertainment/embracing.html
-Brooklyn Street Art, “BSA Film Friday” (Paint PHX 2015) 2015
http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/2015/05/08/bsa-film-friday-05-08-15/#.VmxYyNAbxSU
-Brooklyn Street Art, “BSA Film Friday” (SOULFUSION) 2014
http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/2014/02/14/bsa-film-friday-02-14-14/#.VmxYdNAbxSU
-Brooklyn Street Art, “Joerael Takes Painting to the Roof Top and Beyond” 2014
http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/2014/02/22/rooftop-painting/#.VmxX8tAbxSU
-Claire Lawton, Phoenix New Times, “10 Favorite Atreet Art Sightings In Phoenix” 2012
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/10-favorite-street-art-sightings-in-phoenix-6583716
-Jason Franz, Phoenix New Times, “ Cycle: Tour of Mural City” 2011
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/cycle-tour-of-mural-city-6559971
-Brooklyn Street Art, “Yote,Jestonrama and Joerael: Fertility on the Range AZ” 2010
-Brooklyn Street Art, “ Joerael On the Streets of Juarez” 2010
-DTPHX.ORG, “Urban Art Thriving”2010
http://dtphx.org/tag/joerael-j-elliot/
-Claire Lawton,Phoenix New Times, “Joerael Elliott on the Caravan” 2010
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/joerael-elliott-on-the-caravan-6560866
-Claire Lawton, Phoenix New Times, “Rainbow is the New Black” 2010
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/rainbow-is-the-new-black-6567304
-Claire Lawton, Phoenix New Times, “Tag Your Art’ 2010
Collections
The Santa Fe Institute
Works Held in Private Collections in, Manhattan, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, Seattle and Phoenix
Residencies
2018 Visiting Artist, NMSA, Santa Fe NM
2018 Visiting Artist, Georgia Okeefe Museum, Santa Fe, NM
2017, Guest Artist, Mercer University / Arts in the Park , Macon GA
2016, Guest Artist, NMU, Land Arts of the American West, New Mexico
2015-2016, Illustration Residency, Broken Symmetry Society, The Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe
2016, SFAI Water Rights Thematic Residency, The Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe
Lectures
2018, SFI Summer School, Visual Poetics in Science, Santa Fe NM
2018, GWU Corcoran School of Art and Design, Art and Activism, Washington DC
2018, LUX Capital, Graffiti Lecture, New York NY
2017, One Down Dog, Graffiti Lecture, Los Angeles CA
2017, Mercer University, Graffiti Lecture, Art & Activism, Can Control Workshop, Macon GA
2017, CRUSH Walls, Graffiti Lecture, Denver CO
2017, New Mexico School for the Deaf, Graffiti Lecture, Intro to Street Art, Santa Fe NM
2017, Santa Fe Indian School, Graffiti Lecture, Santa Fe NM
2016, SFAI 140 Resident Speaker, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe NM
2016, CCA New Mexico School for the Arts Day, Center For Contemporary Art, Santa Fe NM
2016, Title Graffiti: Indegenous City Culture "Maker Edition", Make Space Santa Fe, Santa Fe NM
2016, Annual Science Board Symposium and Meeting The Santa Fe Institute - Data Futures & Funding Futures: Shifting Landscapes, Keynote Speaker, Title Graffiti: Indigenous City Culture, Santa Fe NM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgFuIUG-PLw
Outreach
2017 New Mexico School for the Deaf, Youth Mural Workshop, Santa Fe
2017 SFAI Open Call Community Youth Mural Workshop, Santa Fe
Social Justice
2008-2011 Las Otras Hermanas, Art Director/Event Coordinator, Phoenix & Juarez Mexico
A non-profit organization working in solidarity with producers and their families to create
an economy built on socially responsible enterprise through fair trade practices.
2011 Tohono O’Odham Unity Run Benefit, Live Art/Event Coordinator, Phoenix
The unity run is a Native American distance run aimed to serve a greater purpose for youths
to understand, practice and preserve cultural heritage and practices.
2008 The Longest Walk 2, Participant/ Advocator, Colorado
The Longest walk 2 was an 8,200-mile (13,200 km) walk that highlighted the need for
protection of American Indian Sacred sites, tribal sovereignty, environmental protection and
action to stop global warming.