Justin Brice Guariglia
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JUSTIN BRICE GUARIGLIA
Born 1974, Maplewood, New Jersey
Visual and conceptual artist and activist known for his work on ecological issues.
Lives and works in New York City.
EDUCATION
1997 Wake Forest University, North Carolina, USA (BA)
1996 Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
1995 Casa Artom, Venice, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
ENTANGLEMENT IS EXISTENTIAL, TED Countdown, Detroit, MI
2022
WHY’S AN OCTOPUS ON MY LAWN?, National Mall, Washington, DC
WE ARE THE ASTEROID, Breckenridge Arts Festival, Breckenridge, CO
2020
Sculpture Garden: WE ARE THE ASTEROID II, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
Justin Brice Guariglia: WE ARE THE ASTEROID III, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
ECO-HAIKUS FOR MARQUEES, Summit Series: LA, Los Angeles, CA
2019
REDUCE SPEED NOW!, Somerset House, London, UK
Justin Brice Guariglia: WE ARE THE ASTEROID III, Rice University, Houston, TX
WE ARE THE ASTEROID II: Art and the Ecological Crisis, University of Northern Iowa, IA
Earth Works: Mapping the Anthropocene, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2018
ExpoChicago: WE ARE THE ASTEROID II, Chicago Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Climate Signals: Engaging New York City in the Climate Conversation, The Climate Museum, The NYC Mayor’s Office & The NYC Parks Dept.
Like a Thief in the Night: Justin Brice Guariglia, Maruani Mercier Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
Earth Works: Mapping the Anthropocene, USC Fisher Museum of Art & LA Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles, CA
Landscapes: Justin Brice Guariglia, Art Brussels, Maruani Mercier Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2017
Earth Works: Mapping the Anthropocene, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Phenomena ad Noumena, Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, Telluride, CO
Intervention: After Ice, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; New York, NY
After Nature, TwoThirtyOne Projects, New York, NY
Field Notes: Omega Block I, Russo Gallery, Dartmouth College, NH
2016
Topographies of the Anthropocene, Lincoln Center Global Exchange, New York, NY
2012
Sacred Forests, Noorderlicht International Photofestival, Museum Belvédère, Netherlands
2009
Planet Shanghai, Chobi Mela V, Festival of Photography, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2008
Shaolin, Aperture Foundation/National Geographic Museum, Washington, D.C.; Utah Valley University Woodbury Museum, UT; Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Qi, Gallery 339, Philadelphia, PA; The Aperture Foundation Gallery & Rubin Museum, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
The SuperNatural 2.0, 21C Museum, Louisville, KY
2024
Displacement, MAAM, Boston, MA
2022
WE ARE THE ASTEROID, Pennsylvania Climate Convergence, Harrisburg, PA
2021
Resistance, Maruani Mercier, Knokke, Belgium
Resistance(s), Maruani Mercier, Brussels, Belgium
Wisdom and Nature Exhibition and Auction, Christie’s, New York; London
2020
After Us, The Flood, Kunst Haus Wein, Vienna, Austria
This is America | Art USA Today, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands
Occupy Colby: Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy, Year 2, ColbyMuseum of Art, Waterville, ME
Mariner: A Painted Ship Upon a Painted Ocean, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, UK
Mariner: A Painted Ship Upon a Painted Ocean, Andrew Brownsword Gallery, University of Bath, UK
2019
Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy: Mare Nostrum, OfficialCollateral Installation of the Venice Biennale
Imagine Climate: Artists on Climate Change, Anderson Ranch, CO
iBiennale, Honolulu, HI
2.7°, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
Ghisla Art Collection Foundation, Switzerland
2018
For Freedoms, 50 States Initiative, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK; Oklahoma City, OK; Los Angeles, CA
Indicators: Artists on Climate Change, Storm King Art Center, West Cornwall, NY
Expo Chicago, Maruani Mercier Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017
Wisdom & Nature, Le Ciel Foundation, Phillips New York, Paris and London
2016
For Freedoms, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Group Show, 1 Grand Army Plaza, New York, NY
2012
Noorderlicht International Photofestival, Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen Oranjewoud, Netherlands
2009
Mosai|C|ity Group Exhibition, FELLINI Gallery, Shanghai, China
2008
Planet China, Fovea Exhibitions Gallery, Beacon, NY
2007
Degrees of Separation, Peer Gallery, London, UK
2006
Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Planet Shanghai, PingYao Photography Festival, PinYao, China
Choreographic, Images of Movement, Minnesota Center of Photography, Minneapolis, MN
Fotofest Discoveries Group Show, Houston, TX
PROJECTS & COLLABORATIONS
2017
Creator of After Ice, iOS augmented reality sea level rise app in collaboration with NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), launched on Earth Day
2016-21
Embedded Artist, Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission, NASA/Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL)
2015-16
Embedded Artist, Operation Ice Bridge (OIB) mission, NASA/Goddard
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS
2021
Visiting Distinguished Fellow and Envoy to the Ecological Crisis, Pratt School of Architecture and Urban Design, Brooklyn, NY
Senior Fellow, Woodwell Climate Research Center, Woods Hole, MA
2019
Finalist, COAL Prize, Platform on Disaster Displacement, Paris, France
Finalist, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), New York, NY
2018-22
Artist in Residence, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK
2018-20
Fellow, Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, MA
2017
Grant recipient, Howard Foundation Fellowship, Brown University, RI
Grant recipient, National Endowment for the Arts
2016
Invitee, SXSL, A White House Festival of Ideas, Art and Action
2014
Nominated for the Sovereign Art Prize, Hong Kong, China Bronze Cube, The Art Director’s Club of New York
2003
Pictures of the Year Awards for General Division/Science/Natural History Picture Story, Columbia, MO
Pictures of the Year Awards for Single Image, POYi60, Columbia, MO
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
Fiona R. Cameron, “Museum Practices and the Posthumanities Curating for Planetary Habitability,” Arbingdon Oxen; New York, NY: Routledge, 2024. p. 117-118
Peter Seeland, “Facing Gaia: Justin Brice Guariglia’s landscape photography in an ecological perspective,” Ben Kamis ed. global dis:connect blog, 2024
2023
Joy G. Bertling, Foreword by Olivia Gude, “Art Education for a Sustainable Planet: Embracing Ecopedagogy in K-12 Classrooms,” New York: Teachers College Press, 2023. p. 92-93
2021
“Eight leading artists championing sustainability,” Christie’s, April 21
2020
“We Are the Asteroid: Art and the Ecological Crisis,” YBCA, April 22
“Artist Justin Brice Guariglia Elevates Climate Change Conversation Through Vivid Messaging,” EarthDay.org, Sept 11
Justin Wu, “Art at the BlueLine Showcases Climate Art in Lower Manhattan,” Untapped New York, Sept 15
2019
Guest essay, “Mixing Art and Environmental Science to Catalyze Social Change,” State of the Planet: News from the Columbia Climate School, May 10
Phong Bui, “Justin Brice Guariglia with Phong Bui,” The Brooklyn Rail, April 3
Emily Raboteau, “Climate Signs,” The New York Review of Books, Feb 1
2018
Carolyn Kormann, “Ask a Scientist: How to Deal with a Climate-Change Skeptic,” The New Yorker, Nov 17
Greg Morrison, “Art and the Environment: Museums Adjust to a New Climate,” Sotheby’s Museum Network, Nov 9
Courtney Lindwall, “When Art Mimics Highway Signage,” Onearth from the National Resources Defense Council, October 9
Devi Lockwood, “Public Art with a Goal: Spur Climate Conversations,” Yale Climate Connections, Oct 4
Marissa De La Cerda, “Justin Brice Guariglia Hopes His Expo Chicago Installation We Are The Asteroid II Will Raise Eco-Awareness,” Chicago Reader, Sept 25
Colleen Curry, “This Artist Is Raising Environmental Awareness All Across New York,” Galerie Magazine, Sept 10
Erin Blakemore, “Signs of Climate Change Pop Up in New York — Really,” The Washington Post, September 9
Oliver Milman, “Art Can Play a Valuable Role’: Climate Change Installations Appear in New York,” The Guardian, September 4
Laura van Straaten, “Climate Museum Sends Distress Signals to Stimulate Discussion,” The New York Times, August 30
“What Will Art Look Like in 100 Years? We Asked 16 Contemporary Artists to Predict the Future,” Artnet News, June 12
“Art, Theory and Practice in the Anthropocene,” Vernon Press, Essay
Nadja Sayej, “Artists on Climate Change: The Exhibition Tackling a Global Crisis,” The Guardian, May 30
Ben Luke, “Artists Show Their Power to Effect Change,” The Art Newspaper, May 28
Helen Stoilas, “Artists Deliver Climate-Change Message That Time Is Running Out,” The Art Newspaper, May 28
Carl Swanson, “The End of Nature at Storm King Art Center,” New York Magazine, May 26
“Climate Change Think Tank, Alaska Museum, and Artist Launch Collaboration to Tell Story of Thawing Permafrost,” Woods Hole Research Center & Anchorage Museum of Art, May 25
Laura van Straaten, “A Right or a Privilege? Artists Speak Out on the Met Policy,” The New York Times, Mar 1
Laura van Straaten, “Artist Ai Weiwei's Journey Following Refugees Takes Him to Puerto Rico,” NBC News, Feb 25
2017
Ben Luke, “As Waters Rise, Artists Answer a Call to Action,” The Art Newspaper, Dec 8
Maria Henson, “Justin Guariglia ('97): Beyond Photography,” WFU Alumni Magazine, Oct 9
Erin Blakemore, “Climate-Change Art Exhibit Was Almost Swallowed by Hurricane Irma,” The Washington Post, September 23
Laura van Straaten; Guest Editor: Pharrell Williams, “These Are the Faces of Art Activism Today,” Departures, Sept 19
Carol Strickland, “The Iceman Cometh: Guariglia Flies with NASA To Make Eco-Art,” Art in America, Sept 12
Eillie Anzilotti, “Coming Soon To Mar-A-Lago: These Giant Artworks About Climate Change,” Fast Company, Sept 1
Ted Loos, “A Man on a Eco-Mission in Mixed Media,” The New York Times, Aug 29
Alina Cohen, “Justin Brice Guariglia's Powerful Photos of Melting Glaciers,” Galerie, Aug 26
Elizabeth Stinson, “This Artist Turns Aerial Photography Into Prints That'll Last Forever,” Wired, Aug 28
Kyle Chayka, “This Artist's New Landscape Studies Are of Melting Glaciers,” The Verge, Aug 22
Helen Stoilas, “Images of Melting Glaciers Head to Backyard of Trump's Florida Home,” The Art Newspaper, July 12
Julia Halperin, “Land Art,” Cultured Magazine, July 1
Ellie Kincaid, “An Artist Finds Inspiration For His Art in Science,” The Wall Street Journal, May 5
Julia Halperin, “On Earth Day, One Artist Launches a Secret Project to Show What New York Will Look Like Underwater,” Artnet, April 22
Jane L. Levere, “A Guide to Museums Getting Political This Year,” The New York Times, Mar 13
Sonja van Renssen, “The Visceral Climate Experience,” Nature Climate Change, Mar 2
Sara Peach, “Artist Teams Up with NASA on Climate Education,” Yale Climate Connections, Jan 24
2016
Julia Travers, “Artist Justin Brice Guariglia Works With NASA To Raise Awareness of Rising Sea Levels,” SciArt Magazine, Nov 18
Chau Tu, “Above the Ice, an Artist Goes Deep,” Science Friday, Oct 19
Jessica Leber, “The Melting Ice Sheet, The Artist, And The Space Agency,” Fast Company, Oct 12
Hilarie M. Sheets, “Art and Science Meld as NASA Announces a New Artist Collaboration,” The New York Times, Sept 16
Jessica Leber, “NASA’s New Artist Has An Amazing Climate Change Tattoo,” Fast Company, Sept 16
LECTURES & TALKS
2022
Speaker, We Are The Asteroid: Communicating The Urgency Of The Ecological Crisis, Breckenridge Creative Arts, Breckenridge, CO
2019
Keynote Lecture, WE ARE THE ASTEROID, Aldo Leopold Distinguished Lectures, University of Northern Iowa, IA
Panel Speaker, WE ARE THE ASTEROID, with Timothy Morton, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Speaker, The Role of Art in the Environmental Crisis Symposium, Christie’s, New York, NY
Keynote Lecture, WE ARE THE ASTEROID, Photo+Sphere, Black Mountain College, NC
Keynote Lecture, WE ARE THE ASTEROID, Sunrise Movement, Green New Deal, New York, NY
2018
Panel Speaker, The State(s) We're In: A New Age of Transatlantic Relations, Deutsches Haus at NYU, New York, NY
Panel Speaker, Reckoning with the Climate Crisis, New York Review of Books, New York, NY
Host, Earth Works: Mapping The Anthropocene symposium, Norton Museum of Art, FL
Panel Speaker, Action Through Art, The Explorer’s Club, New York, NY
Justin Brice Guariglia in conversation with curator Tim Wride, Norton Museum of Art, FL
Panel Speaker, Polar Opposites: A Brown Arts Initiative Symposium on Art & Environment, Brown University, RI
2017
Keynote Lecture, Can Art Inspired by Science Change the World?, Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC), Woods Hole, MA
Speaker, After Ice iOS App with Cynthia Rosenzweig (NASA/GISS), World Science Festival, NY
Keynote Speaker, Global Wellness Summit, The Breakers, Palm Beach, FL
Panel Speaker, The New Normal, Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, Telluride, CO
Panel Speaker, Science & Climate Change March, Dupont Underground, Washington, DC
Panel Speaker, EcoArt Project Salon: Greenland's Melting Glaciers, TwoThirtyOne Projects, NY
2016
Speaker, Year Four Labs: Future Textiles, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Panel Speaker, The Astronaut and the Artist, Lincoln Center Global Exchange, New York, NY
2010
Keynote Lecture, 5 Magazine Assignments That Changed My Life, Singapore International Photography Festival, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2009
Keynote Lecture, 5 Magazine Assignments That Changed My Life, APA|NY Image Maker Lecture Series, The Apple Store, SoHo, New York, NY
2008
Keynote Lecture, Shaolin: Temple of Zen, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
PUBLICATIONS
2021
Cynthia Haveson Veloric, Aesthetic and Industrial Rupture in the Work of Edward Burtynsky and Justin Brice Guariglia, Oakland, CA: University of California Press, After Image. vol. 48 (1), p. 28-36
2020
Nach uns die Sintflut (After Us, the flood) Exhibition Catalogue, Austria: Fotohof edition
2019
Earth Works: Mapping the Anthropocene, West Palm Beach, FL: The Norton Museum of Art
2014
Johor: Tropic of Colors, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society
2011
Johor: Asia Latitude One, New York: de.MO
2008
Planet Shanghai, San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books
2007
Shaolin: Temple of Zen, New York, NY: The Aperture Foundation
Xiao Hong Quan (Small Flood of Fists) Flipbook, New York, NY: The Aperture Foundation
SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Ghisla Foundation, Switzerland
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Spurlock Museum, Urbana, IL
Vanden Heuvel Collection, New York, NY