Joe Andoe

Joe Andoe (born 1955) is an American artist, painter, and author. His works have been featured in exhibits internationally and also numerous museums including the Denver Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is the author of the book Jubilee City: A Memoir at Full Speed (P.S.), which is a memoir about his life.

Andoe was born on December 5, 1955 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Andoe loved to draw as a child but he never created any artwork until he was in college. Andoe first realized that painting could be his career when he was enrolled in community college studying agricultural business. He was taking an elective class in art history when he learned about artists such as Robert Smithson and Dennis Oppenheim. He soon changed his major an eventually earned a Master's Degree in Art from the University of Oklahoma in 1981.

After college, Andoe began pushing his works on different art galleries in New York. He moved to New York in 1982.

He continues to paint and currently lives in New York City.

Andoe is known for his use of monochromatic canvases. He has stated that he wants to "reduce images to their blueprint."

Andoe has an extensive exhibition record. Paintings by Andoe are represented in permanent collections of the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA in New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Select solo exhibitions

• 2015, Nathalie Karg Gallery (New York, NY)
• 2012, Ford Project (New York, NY)
• 2007, Earl McGrath Gallery (Los Angeles, CA)
• 2005, Longview Museum of Fine Arts (Longview, TX)
• 2004, Feigen Contemporary (New York, NY)
• 2002, Earl McGrath Gallery (Los Angeles, CA)
• 2001, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha, NE)
• 2000, SOMA Gallery (La Jolla, CA)
• 2000, University At Buffalo Art Gallery Research Center in Art & Culture (Buffalo, NY)
• 2000, Gallery Simonne Stern (New Orleans, LA)
• 1999, Gilcrease Museum (Tulsa, OK)
• 1999, Blum Helman Gallery (New York, NY)
• 1999, KOPAC (Seoul, South Korea)
• 1998, Meredith Long & Company (Houston, TX)
• 1996, Blum Helman Gallery (New York, NY)
• 1995, Milliventi Sperone (Turin, Italy)
• 1993, Gallery Kaj Forsblom (St. Louis, MO)
• 1991, Yodo Gallery (Osaka, Japan)
• 1991, Gallery Busche (Cologne, Germany)
• 1990, Gallery Daniel Templon (Paris, France)
• 1989, Dart Gallery (Chicago, IL)
• 1988, Tom Cugliani Gallery (New York, NY)
• 1986, White Columns White Room (New York, NY)

Select public collections

• Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI)
• The Herbert and Dorothy Vogel Collection at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
• Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
• Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK)
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY)
• Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY)
• Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA)
• Saint Louis Art Museum (St. Louis, MO)
• Museum of Contemporary Art (San Diego, CA)
• Sheldon Museum of Art (Lincoln, NE)
• Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY)

Andoe began wrting in 2002 and was first published in 2003 by Open City Magazine, a New York City magazine that featured many first-time writers. That same year he was published in Bomb and Bald Ego. Andoe had authored a comic book sized group of stories about his life and in 2005, Harper Collins asked him to create a longer version of the stories. These were the inspiration for the book Jubilee City: A Memoir at Full Speed (P.S.) which was published in 2007. The book received numerous reviews including from the New York Times and USA Today.

Andoe currently lives in New York. He has two children, one son and one daughter.