The exhibition will feature work by each of the Dolby Chadwick Gallery artists who were paired as part of the Stay Inspired series. While the poetry pairings will not be integrated into the exhibition itself, they will appear in a gorgeous, fully illustrated hardcover coffee-table book titled Stay Inspired: Shelter in Place 2020, published on the occasion of the show. This volume presents an astounding selection of poetry. Voices included range from the thirteenth-century poet Rumi to former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins to recent Nobel Prize in Literature winner Louise Glück. For each book sold through January 30, 2021, 50% of the sales price will be donated to No Kid Hungry, which has been doing important work to feed families most in need during these trying times.
EXHIBIT: Provincetown
“In Sequent Toil”
Feature exhibit at
RICE POLAK GALLERY
430 Commercial Street, Provincetown MA
August 28–September 9, 2026
Opening Reception Friday August 28, 7pm
In Sequent Toil gathers paintings by Joshua Meyer that dwell in the tension between continuity and change. Taking its title from William Shakespeare’s meditative sixtieth sonnet, each painting approaches time not as a linear progression but as a layered, recursive experience—moments folding into one another, surfaces holding traces of what came before.
Meyer’s paintings operate through accumulation: gestures are built, obscured, and re-emerge, suggesting a temporal depth that resists a single fixed present. People appear in states of transition—eroding, repeating, or quietly shifting—inviting the viewer to linger within the intervals between perception and memory.
Rather than illustrating time, these works inhabit it. They propose that meaning is not found in isolated instants, but in the subtle pressure of sequence—the way each mark contends with what precedes it and anticipates what follows. In this space, time is not merely measured, it is felt, held, and continually remade.
EXHIBIT
Danforth Art Museum
My painting “Terra Rosa” will be featured in the Danforth Annual Juried Exhibition
14 Vernon Street, Framingham, Massachusetts
danforth.framingham.edu
On view June 13–August 30, 2026
Artist spotlight talk: Sunday, August 23, 3 pm at the Danforth
EXHIBIT
I will have several paintings in this group show at Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts, exploring the psalm through artwork.
September 9–December 18, 2026.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 9, 2026, 5-7 p.m. Registration is required.
EXHIBIT
Podwal Prize Exhibition
at The Heller Museum
Honored to be one of the 2026 Awardees
The Heller Museum at HUC
1 W 4th Street, New York, NY
April 17–June 25, 2026
Reception: Thursday, April 16, 6–8 pm, RSVP
AWARD
HONORING LEADERSHIP IN ARTS AND CULTURE
Joshua Meyer, for his beautiful and evocative body of work, his efforts as an art educator, and his contribution to the world of Jewish art.
Hebrew College Spring Gala
Thursday, May 14, 2026
6:30 PM Dinner, Program, and Dessert Reception
View the award ceremony below:
BOOK
Excited to see my painting “Edge of the Evening” on the cover of this new book of poetry from Yermiyahu Ahron Taub! Available from Finishing Line Press wherever you buy books.
AWARD
Honored to be one of the 2026 Awardees.
Exhibit at The Heller Museum in New York City
April 17–June 25, 2026
INTERVIEW
New podcast and radio show! Check out this interview with the In Good Faith podcast, discussing all kinds of stuff, but focused on my exhibit at the Museum at BYU.
EXHIBIT: Utah
October 3, 2024 – January 18, 2025
BYU Museum of Art, North Campus Drive, Provo, UT 84602
Monday – Saturday: 10 AM – 6 PM, Extended Friday Hours through 9 PM
Admission is free
EXHIBITION REVIEW
Grateful to Shawn Rossiter of Utah’s 15 Bytes for coming to see Eight Approaches at the BYU Museum of Art and for the beautifully written piece: “Joshua Meyer’s “Eight Approaches” is a Dialogue with Time, Light, and Creation”
EXHIBIT: Provincetown
Feature exhibit at
RICE POLAK GALLERY
430 Commercial Street, Provincetown MA
July 4-July 17
Opening Reception Friday July 5, 7pm
I’ve been busy in the studio—come and see lots of fresh, gooey paintings in this feature exhibit at RPG.
(If you come out to the reception, the Vorse House reception and the Rice Polak reception are back to back, and just down the street from each other. Details about the Vorse House group show, where I also have a few works on display, below).
EXHIBIT: Provincetown
Vorse House
PROVINCETOWN ARTS SOCIETY
June 7 – July 21, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 15th 5-7 pm
Additional Reception for the show: Friday, July 5th 5-7 pm
466 Commercial St, Provincetown, MA 02657
(Next door to the Museum)
(Next door to the Museum)
Grateful to be included in this group show at the historic Mary Heaton Vorse House in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Curated by Gene Tartaglia.
EXHIBIT: Provincetown
SPRING GROUP EXHIBIT
Through July 3, 2024
NEWSPAPER FEATURE
Worcester Telegram and Gazette
So grateful for this thorough and thoughtful feature on the front page of the Worcester Telegram (December 6, 2023). Richard Duckett delves into the stories behind my Worcester Art Museum exhibit.
TELEVISION INTERVIEW
NOW STREAMING from BYU-TV
Painters, sculptors, photographers, illustrators, and other artists from different disciplines share how their personal faith sparks their creative spirit.
ARTIST’S TALK: Harvard University
Monday, October 23, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Dennis F. Thompson Seminar Room, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 520N, Cambridge
Generative AI technologies raise the specter of radical change in the creative arts. But disruption can drive creativity and catalyze innovation. Our panelists, Joshua Meyer and Ziv Epstein, will explore the ethics of authorship and the effects that new AI technologies will likely have on creative industries. This event will be moderated by Xavier Symons. Co-hosted by the Human Flourishing Program.
Registration link: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=xf5bt9nab&oeidk=a07ek0nlx4u92381a8b
EXHIBIT: Asheville
November 3—December 31, 2023
Citron Gallery
The fine folks at the Citron Gallery in Asheville are including a few of my paintings in this group show.
EXHIBIT
January – July 2023
Hebrew College
(New Campus)
1860 Washington Street Newton, MA 02466
Newton, Massachusetts
If you missed it at the Museum of Fine Arts, or if you want to revisit my 8-painting series “Eight Approaches,” it is now inaugurating the College’s new campus on Washington Street in Newton.
EXHIBIT: Provincetown
May—July 5, 2023
Rice Polak Gallery
Provincetown, Massachusetts
MUSEUM EXHIBIT:
December 15, 2022
5-10 pm
My painting series “Eight Approaches” is debuting in full at the MFA Boston! The paintings will be featured on the 15th as part of the Museum’s Chanukah celebration with JArts and CJP. (the event is included with general admission, only $5, members are free). If you read my recent essay “My Guston” you probably already have a sense of what a powerful juxtaposition it will be for my work to be hanging in the same museum just after Guston’s exhibit. I am thrilled to put these paintings in dialogue with the community and with the artists of the MFA.
Feature: ‘Eight Approaches’ weaves light, time and Jewish identity, by Penny Schwartz, Jewish Journal, December 2022.
LIMITED-EDITION PRINTS
Delighted to announce a very small edition of signed and numbered prints (only 25 available) in collaboration with Sebastian Foster and author John Seed. They teamed up to make a new set of selected artists from John’s book Disrupted Realism (if you don’t already have a copy, you should look for one of those as well!). The printing his beautiful and they are reasonably priced. “Ariel” is 11×14 inches, in a signed & numbered edition of 25.
BOOK:
For the philosophically inclined
My painting “Slower, Louder, Breathe” is featured on the cover of a brand-new book from Oxford Press. “Normativity and Agency” is edited and includes an essay by my friend, Philosopher Tamar Schapiro.
I just reread one of her essays from a few years ago. These lines will give you a sense of what I love about her writing, not to mention what I do every day in my studio: “We are in an internally unstable normative condition. Deliberation is our natural response to this instability…It is the activity, and the process, through which we humanize ourselves, over and over again.”
EXHIBIT: Provincetown
August 18 – 31, 2022
Rice Polak Gallery
430 Commercial Street, Provincetown MA
AWARD
2022 Massachusetts Cultural Council Painting Grant
I am grateful to the MCC for awarding me a 2022 painting grant!
ESSAY
A personal essay I wrote about Philip Guston. Read more>
EXHIBIT: Brooklyn
May 31, 2022-June 28, 2022
Site:Brooklyn Gallery
curated by Andi Campognone
EXHIBIT
Hebrew College Centennial Exhibition, curated by Deborah Feinstein
Sunday, April 3, 2022 | 5-7 p.m. (Exhibit runs April 3-June 14, 2022)
Opening reception featuring a live cantorial performance
Ted Cutler Atrium Hebrew College
160 Herrick Road Newton Center, MA 02459
ARTICLE
“Artists on their art” feature. Read more > | PDF>
AWARD
CJP awarded a round of grants to support Greater Boston creatives for projects that will include dance, documentary film, visual arts, and original music. The new round of grants, totaling $67,500 for nine artists and their teams, comes just six months after CJP invested $100,000 in 11 local artists. Read more >
EXHIBIT & BOOK: San Francisco
December 10, 2020 — January 30, 2021
Dolby Chadwick Gallery
EXHIBIT: Provincetown
October 15 – November 3, 2020
Rice Polak Gallery
Over 40 artists will take you for a ride on the rapids of politics, social justice and
the effects of the pandemic on their work.
“The idea of the virtual show is to make people think, to stir things up and to peer into how the pandemic and the current political situation has affected the personal and creative lives of artists,” says director and curator, Marla Rice. With upheaval all around, how can we in the arts stay silent? A portion of the proceeds from sales will be donated to local non-profits including Lower Cape Outreach & Lower Cape
Food Pantry.
LIVE:
A 2020 virtual studio visit and interview by Laura Mandel of JArts, in which we discuss art, Kafka, time, Augustine, and my exhibit at the Rice Polak Gallery.
POETRY
From a series of inspired pairings by Dolby Chadwick Gallery
Click the images for full size pdf
BOOK:
by John Seed
NOW IN ITS SECOND PRINTING! Disrupted Realism is the first book to survey the works of contemporary painters who are challenging and reshaping the tradition of Realism. Schiffer Publishing, hardcover, 208 pages, 9 x 12 inches.
EXHIBIT: New York City
Lyons Wier Gallery
542 W 24th St, New York, New York
Artist Reception: Saturday, March 2nd 6–8 pm
February 26 – March 30, 2019
INTERVIEW
Interview with Aneleise Ruggles
Mosesian Center for the Arts
EXHIBIT: Boston
Mosesian Center for the Arts
321 Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA 02472, 617-923-0100
Opening Reception, January 24, 2019, 5:30-7:30pm
January 24 – March 29, 2019
INTERVIEW
Interview with Ray Wiggs [30 minutes]
WOMR Radio
Also available as a podcast.
EXHIBIT
July 6 – 25, 2018
Rice Polak Gallery
Provincetown, Massachusetts
Cape Cod
EXHIBIT
Charter Oak Cultural Center
Hartford, Connecticut
October 26 – November 18, 2017
Group show, Opening Reception: Thursday, October 26, 6-8 PM
EXHIBIT
Matter & Light Fine Art
Boston, Massachusetts
BOOK
The Art of Joshua Meyer 2000-2016
The 28-page catalog features art from the exhibit and a dialogue between Joshua Meyer and Ruth Weisberg. A pdf is available for download.
EXHIBIT
The Art of Joshua Meyer 2000-2016
The Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA
August-December 2016 more>
EXHIBIT
“Ligaments,” on view at the Danforth Art Museum
June 19–August 21, 2016
Jessica Roscio, Curator, Danforth Art
REVIEW
Joshua Meyer’s Matter & Light debut “bristles with a push-pull energy” – The Boston Globe
