ABOUT
Joy Amina Garnett is an artist and writer from New York. Her paintings explore media consumption and the distinctions between documentary versus fine art image making. Her creative writing engages memory and dislocation, archives, and alternative histories. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, conceptual photographer Bill Jones.
Garnett’s work has been exhibited at MoMA PS1, Whitney Museum of American Art, FLAG Art Foundation, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Artists Space, Smack Mellon, White Columns, Center for Book Arts, New York Academy of Sciences, Milwaukee Art Museum, Bristol Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Craft Portland, Boston University Art Gallery, National Academy of Sciences, Wellcome Trust (London, UK), and the Witte Zaal (Ghent, Belgium). Her honors include the Anonymous Was A Woman Award, residencies at Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Creative Commons Dubrovnik, and grants from United States Artists, Therese Ralston McCabe Connor Fund, Chipstone Foundation Milwaukee, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the Wellcome Trust.
Garnett was awarded a writing fellowship at Yaddo to work on her family memoir, The Bee Kingdom, forthcoming from Gaudy Boy in 2026, an advance excerpt of which was Longlisted for the 2024 First Pages Prize for Creative Nonficton. A story that weaves together memoir with fragments of historical fiction, it follows her search for her late grandfather, a central yet elusive figure of Arabic letters. Garnett’s short stories and essays can be found in Harper’s, Rusted Radishes, ellipse: journal of translation, Nashville Review, Evergreen Review, Ping-Pong, Halfway Down the Stairs, Two Coats of Paint, Full Blede, The Artists’ & Writers’ Cookbook (powerHouse Books), and elsewhere.
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Contact: joy.garnett [@] gmail.com
Joy Amina Garnett 
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