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
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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
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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
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
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