Joe Ferriso grew up in Long Island, NY, and studied art at The Cooper Union. He moved to the Bay Area in 2009 and co-founded an experimental furniture studio, Anzfer Farms. In 2018, he received an MFA from Stanford University. In 2020, he moved with his wife, child, and dog to The Sea Ranch, CA.
His recent series of paintings extend from the architecture and context of The Sea Ranch. His artwork strives to distill complex relationships between humanity and nature into bold and simplified graphic forms. Ferriso pulls his subjects from daily drawings that he makes while walking. His materials are paint and wood, sourced from local interactions with neighbors. His artworks are primarily concerned with how color relationships impact perception.
Solo Exhibitions
2023 - Through the Trees at TSR Lodge, The Sea Ranch, CA
2022 - Associate at Park Life Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2021 - Relating to the hours at Pompei, Brooklyn, NY
2021 - Every day a doorway at LyndonDesign Gallery, The Sea Ranch, CA
2018 – Cutawayat Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2017 - Recent Works at Park Life Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 - Ajar at Park Life Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 - The Partly at Mesa, San Francisco, CA
2011 - Superbities at Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 - I Used to Really Like Pablo Picasso at Heliopolis, Brooklyn, NY
Group Exhibitions
2022
(two-person) Solace at Qualia Contemporary, Palo Alto, CA
2021
Mergers at LyndonDesign Gallery, The Sea Ranch, CA
Frequence of Sequence at All of Us Projects, online gallery: link here
2020
Later Days at Embark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Art Kala 2020 auction benefit, Oakland, CA
2019
Secret Santa at Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Long Look at Bass & Reiner, San Francisco, CA
Wall Space X, NY(G), Brooklyn, NY
2018
Summer Survey at Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA
Where Here at Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, CA
Rule no Rule at Embark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Drift at Brilliant Champions, New York, NY
Fort Mason Firehouse at Sienna Patti Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017
Linchpin at Space 151, San Francisco, CA
Group Hang at The Lab, San Francisco, CA
NFS at Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hi5 at Coulter Gallery, Stanford, CA
2016
Thing One Thing at Two One Grand Gallery, Portland, OR
Palette at Ampersand International Arts, San Francisco, CA
Meta Views at Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art, Phoenix, AZ
2015
The Battery, San Francisco, CA
10 Year Anniversary Benefit Auction at LA>< ART, Los Angeles, CA
Tomorrow at Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
Mesa Group Show at Land and Sea, Oakland, CA
Mesa in LA at Age of Art Multiples, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Headlands Center for the Arts Benefit Art Auction (Anzfer Farms) at SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA
The Possibles (Anzfer Farms) at BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA
Kindling at Campfire Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012
In The Fold (Anzfer Farms) at The Popular Workshop, San Francisco, CA
Holz (Anzfer Farms) at Park Life Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010
Wall to Wall at Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Portions (Anzfer Farms) at Caesar Chavez Art Gallery, SFSU, San Francisco, CA
Residencies
2019 - Real Time and Space, Oakland, CA
2018 - Cité International, Paris, France
2014 - Facebook A.I.R., Menlo Park, CA
Artist Talks
2019 – Real Time & Space, Oakland
2019 – Stanford University
2018 – Stanford University
2017 - Art Academy at Oakland High School
2015 - University of California, Berkeley
2011 - (Anzfer Farms) City College of San Francisco
2010 - (Anzfer Farms) San Francisco State University
2006 - Universidad Pedagógica - Tegucigalpa, Honduras
2005 - Columbia University - NY
Education
2018 - Stanford University, MFA Art Practice
2003 - The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, BFA