About

I create art with a mission of fully enveloping an experience delivered visually by my passion. Furthermore, I trust, as this is my saving grace, that it would open a realm of possibilities and provoke the participant to, if not nostalgically bring a beautiful memory back into a tangible existence, new and unexplored territories of the ocular and mental. 

It is also fundamental for me to share my creations to enlighten, help and heal. 

Thank you.  

Joey Africa

A man in a blue Chicago Cubs jacket crouches in front of a colorful abstract painting with a black tree silhouette on it.

  • Vincent Palotti Institute of the Laity | Rome, Italy

    • Graduate, Theological Studies

    Illinois Institute of Art | Chicago, Illinois

    • Graduate, Culinary Arts

    Northwestern Business College | Chicago, Illinois

    • Graduate, Business Management

  • 1999 | Bordo’s, permanent installation

    2003 | Bar 3, solo show

    2005 | Jane’s, solo show

    2007 | Jane’s, solo show

    2008 | present:  “One Inspired Evening” , (main artist, top contributor, annually)

    2009-2019 | Mars Gallery, 1 solo show per annum 

    2012 to present | Leukemia Lymphoma Society auction and gala

    2014 | Eve’s Angel’s annual auction to benefit victims of human trafficking

    2014 | Red Event: World AIDS Day 

    2015 | Ronald McDonald House auction and charity event

    2016 to 2025 | Make a Wish Foundation art benefit

    2018to present | Aspiritech annual auction

    2019 onwards

    • Collaboration show with Ali 6

    • Make a Wish Foundation art benefit

    • Inspiration corporation art gala

    • Solo show, Mars Gallery (3x)

    • Exhibit, Humanitarian Art Show, United Nations Headquarters, Vienna

    • Chicago Children’s Advocacy Center annual benefit

    • Healing to Action

    • Equine Society 

    • Schaaf-Yang Foundation

    • Marfan Foundation

    • DeMiero Jazzfest 

    • mda.org

    • Project Hope 

    • Boys and Girls Club of Chicago

    • Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals

    • Hurricane Harvey

    • Suicide Hotline 

    • Off the streets club

    • North Shore senior Center

    • Folds of Honor

    • St. Ben’s gala

    • pactt.org

    • Off The Streets Foundation

    • HopeMN

    • WineFestMN (M Fairview Children’s hospital) 

    • Minnesota Children’s Hospital 

    • American Heart Association

    • Fishers Youth Initiative

    • Christ Advocate Medical Center

    • St. John the Baptist school

    • Brown Boy’s Benefit 

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