Solo · 2026
Their Own Devices
Eastern Washington University
Cheney, WA · Oct 1 – Nov 12, 2026 · Curated by Joshua Hobson
Opening reception October 1st, Noon.
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Solo · 2026
Interfaces
Helen S. Smith Gallery, Green River College
Auburn, WA · Feb 20 – Mar 19, 2026
Interfaces brings together new paintings and multimedia assemblages that sit at the intersection of classical technique and contemporary life. The title of the exhibition references a new body of work consisting of tightly composed 22" × 22" oil paintings on panel in which human faces are literally …
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Solo · 2024
Infrastructure
Esvelt Gallery, Columbia Basin College
Pasco, WA · Jan 5 – Feb 1, 2024
The tension between a digitally networked, screen-based experience of the world and a physical, more tactile experience has never been more acute. By combining painting on canvases with screens, stereos and salvaged electronics and materials, my works reflect the disorientation of the moment.
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Solo · 2023
Sound Waves Set Off A Starry Accompaniment
Enclave Contemporary
Shenzhen, China · Jul 30 – Sep 3, 2023 · Curated by Zhang Er
Joe Hedges’s solo exhibition, “Sound Waves Set Off A Starry Accompaniment,” (声波挑动星辰协奏 ) is now on view at Enclave Contemporary through September 3. Joe Hedges’ image
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Solo · 2022
Pictorial Redux
Northern Kentucky University
Highland Heights, KY · Jun 13 – Aug 26, 2022 · Curated by Sso-Rha Kang
A collection of works that mesh technological devices and terrestrial depictions. Works in the exhibition cut windows for smart devices to repose in the middle of paintings of natural landscapes, including waterfalls, ocean water and vast desert fields.
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Solo · 2022
Archeolatry
Spokane Falls Community College
Spokane, WA · Feb 22 – Mar 16, 2022
Joe Hedges is an inter-media artist with a dynamic practice that weaves together oil painting, new media installation and music. His projects often explore the effects of digital technologies on human experience.
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Solo · 2022
Cntrl + A
Bolivar Gallery, University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY · Jan 14 – Feb 12, 2022 · Curated by Becky Alley
Oil paintings alongside recent media products that consume the world today, representing how the world and technology have molded together over time.
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Solo · 2020
Hypercombines
Chase Gallery
Spokane, WA · Jan 3 – Mar 25, 2020
Hedges' "Hypercombines" are part oil painting on canvas and part new media sculpture, seeking to contribute to a contemporary dialogue about the role of art, the influence of the internet, and the boundary between digital and physical realms.
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Solo · 2019
Hypercombines
Artworks
Loveland, CO · Nov 8 – Dec 18, 2019
The "Hypercombines" are oil paintings of beautiful landscapes incorporating flat screen televisions, smart phones, or other objects connected to the internet — part painting, part new media sculpture. T
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Solo · 2019
Pudicae Sacerdotes Naturæ
FrontierSpace Gallery
Missoula, MT · Apr 5, 2019
Works utilizing found objects in nonsensical situations. By combining disparate technological and natural elements, Hedges strips symbols of their expected functions while calling attention to their aesthetic and material dimensions.
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Solo · 2019
Arcane Wilderness
Mantle Art Space
San Antonio, TX · Mar 23, 2019
Hedges' "hypercombines" lean into the dichotomy between traditional and new media by juxtaposing oil paintings on wood and canvas with technological components. His art is largely about the tension between the natural world and media technologies.
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Solo · 2017
Empirical Evidence
The Gallery at the Kenneth J Minnaert Center for the Arts
Olympia, WA
2016
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Archive Memory
Alexander Brest Gallery, Jacksonville University
Jacksonville, FL · Oct 6 – 26, 2016 · Curated by Dani Telez
Paintings, sculptures, video and a website featuring stacks of metal storage and file boxes scattered in floating configurations that defy physics. The works explore changing notions of archive space and memory in a digitally mediated world.
Solo · 2016
Tekhnē
Nan Boynton Memorial Gallery, 621 Gallery
Tallahassee, FL · Curated by Elise Thompson & Haley Lauw
Maggie Evans was in the adjacent gallery
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A Curious Inventory
Childlaw Gallery, The Art Academy of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH · Oct 4 – 31, 2015 · Curated by Dani Tellez
All works in the show explored the coming obsolescence of physical media, the role of physical artifacts in the age of information, and the limits of image-making as a path to knowledge.