About Joe Camoosa

Joe Camoosa creates work that is honest and direct—art that reads like a map and sounds like a song you never want to end. Fascinated by the fleeting, in-between space where abstraction meets recognition, he invites viewers into moments that feel both familiar and unplaceable, much like finding patterns in noise or faces in clouds. His paintings and drawings explore the relationships between shape, color, and pattern, shaped by his love of architecture, music, and cartography. Born in 1969 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, Camoosa lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. He holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia and a BA in Mass Communication and Anthropology from Florida State University. His work is included in numerous corporate and private collections and has been exhibited in galleries across Atlanta, Nashville, Asheville, Richmond, and New York, as well as museums such as MOCA GA, Atlanta Contemporary, the Hudgens Center for the Arts, the Georgia Museum of Art, and the Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences. A former member of the Studio Artists Program at Atlanta Contemporary and a 2016–2017 Walthall Artist Fellow, he is represented by Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta and currently serves as an adjunct instructor at The Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design at Georgia State University.