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Joseph
Begnaud was born in the winter of 1974 in Jackson, Tennessee. In 1992,
Joseph left to attend the University of Dayton in Ohio on a full tuition
scholarship. Through the university’s Honors Program he received
a four-week study grant to live and work in Florence, Italy. This first
international experience, which included excursions to Sienna, Rome, and
Pompeii, would greatly affect his work, inspiring the “sleep series”
begun in the fall of 1995. Directly after completing his BFA in studio
arts in 1996, Joseph was awarded another full scholarship to Indiana University
in Bloomington. He graduated with Masters of Fine Arts in Painting in
1998. Joseph lived and worked in New York for two years before working
briefly in Saint Louis, MO and Interlochen, Michigan at the Interlochen
Center for the Arts.
In 2001 Joseph moved to Portland, Maine and joined the Artists Studio
community at 526 Congress Street. For the last four years, Joseph has
been residing during the summers in Warsaw, Poland and studying art in
the galleries and museums of Warsaw, Kracow, Wroclaw, Prague, and Vienna.
In 2006, he began a collaboration with Stefan Niedzialkowski and the actors
of the Mimes Studio in Warsaw which culminated in an exhibition of drawings
at the Center for Mazovian Culture in Warsaw, Poland in 2007.
In 2009, Joseph awarded a six-month sabbatical grant to create a new body
of work inspired by his winters in Maine, titled “Nocturnes.”
A solo exhibition of this series debuted at Susan Maasch Fine Art in February,
2010. A traveling exhibition of small work on paper from this series is
currently on exhibit in Przasnysz, Poland, before moving on to other venues
in the Mazovian region until January 2011. A second solo exhibition of
new paintings on canvas
is being planned at Raven Gallery in Kracow, Poland for the 2010-2011
season.
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