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Telemetry — installation view
Solo Exhibition · 2026
Telemetry
Eastern Washington University
Oct 1 – Nov 12, 2026  ·  Cheney, WA
Solo Exhibition · 2027
TBA
Gallery One Visual Arts Center
Jan 15 – Feb 5, 2027  ·  Ellensburg, WA
Interfaces installation view, Helen S. Smith Gallery, Green River College 2026
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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Infrastructure installation view, Esvelt Gallery, Columbia Basin College 2024
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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Sound Waves Set Off A Starry Accompaniment installation view, Enclave Contemporary 2023
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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Pictorial Redux installation view, Northern Kentucky University 2022
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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Archeolatry installation view, Spokane Falls Community College 2022
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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Cntrl + A installation view, Bolivar Gallery, University of Kentucky 2022
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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Hypercombines installation view, Chase Gallery 2020
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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Hypercombines installation view, Artworks 2019
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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Pudicae Sacerdotes Naturæ installation view, FrontierSpace Gallery 2019
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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Arcane Wilderness installation view, Mantle Art Space 2019
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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Empirical Evidence installation view, The Gallery at the Kenneth J Minnaert Center for the Arts 2017
Solo · 2017

Empirical Evidence

The Gallery at the Kenneth J Minnaert Center for the Arts
Olympia, WA
2016
Solo

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.

Tekhnē installation view, Nan Boynton Memorial Gallery, 621 Gallery 2016
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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2015
Solo

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.

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