Recent and Upcoming Exhibitions

Museum of Contemporary Art GA interactive video art installation, upcoming winter 2026

Olmsted Linear Park Alliance / City of Atlanta Parks public art commission, upcoming 2027

Frances Sewell Plunkett Gallery, Mercer University solo exhibition, upcoming January 2027

Little Five Points Alliance, The L5P Late Night Picture Show, outdoor experimental film series curator and host, upcoming 2026

Swan Coach House Gallery, two person Field Notes exhibition curated by E.C. Flamming, February 2026

Goat Farm LOOP Albert Einstein Ghostphone, upcoming Winter 2026

The Center Atlanta, digital photo mural commission over Centennial Park (2026)

Pop-up camera obscura time portal, Downtown Atlanta public art series (2026)

The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences, interactive sculpture added to the permanent collection

The Breman Museum, as curator for 18:18:18 exhibition by Jason Francisco (2025-2026)

Hambidge Auction/Creative Hive featured muralist, 2025

TRYST Art Fair, Los Angeles, 2025

Fulton County Public Art Futures Lab, solo exhibition (upcoming 2026)

Off the Wall @ 725 Ponce Video Art Festival, 2025

Goat Farm SITE, Atlanta Art Week, interactive projection mapping installation (2024)

SAIC Gallery, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2024

The Poor Farm Experiment (Manawa, WI) 2023

Jenny Minkewicz Gallery, 2020

Roswell In Print public art exhibition, 2020

Wolf Gallery, solo show, Atlanta, GA, 2020

Hambidge Art Auction, 2019 and 2025

Grants, Awards and Affiliations

Georgia Tech Einstein Arts Integration Grant, 2026

Living in the Play: Nido Artist Residency, Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy (2026)

Hambidge Center for Creative Arts Fellow, 2025

Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network / Mellon Foundation Seed Grantee, 2025-26

The Center Atlanta nonprofit digital billboard grantee (2025, as Drift the Map)

ElevenLabs Voice AI Social Impact Grantee, 2025

Idea Capital Grantee (2025), with collaborator Carley Rickles

Matterport Social Impact Grantee, 2024

Georgia Humanities Grantee (2024), as Breman Museum artist in residence

Fulton County Arts & Culture, Public Arts Grants Juror, 2023-2024

Georgia Coast Atlas / Artist in Residence and Co-Principal Investigator (2022-present)

South Arts Creative Placemaking Summit, 2024

Rose Library Geffen & Lewyn Southern Jewish Collections Research Fellow, 2023

Cesium Ecosystem Grantee, 2023

Society for Photographic Education

Emory University Arts and Social Justice Faculty Grantee, 2022

Arts Leaders of Metro Atlanta, class of 2020

Decatur Makers non-profit educational makerspace, 2015-present

Beacon Hill Black Alliance for Human Rights: Artist mentor

Advertising Photographers of America, National Secretary, 2003-2004

ACLU of Georgia, Lead counsel in the First Amendment lawsuit which overturned the City of Atlanta ordinance preventing street musicians from busking in public, 1997

Southern Environmental Law Center/Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper legal team. Draftsman of an environmental lawsuit that led to a $1 billion Clean Water Act consent decree with the City of Atlanta, 1995

Education

School of the Art Institute of Chicago / Master of Fine Arts (2024)

University of Georgia School of Law / J.D. cum laude (1996)

Oberlin College / B.A., with honors (1993)

Employment

Joel Silverman Studio, 2000-present

Interdisciplinary artist with a studio based in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Breman Museum / Visiting Curator of Digital Art and Time-Based Media (2023-current)

Alongside my visual art studio practice, I am a part-time curator of digital art at the Southeast's leading Jewish museum, where I am responsible for museum-of-the-future planning, commissioning contemporary video art, designing immersive galleries, 3D object digitization, and leading city history walks. Designed interactive gallery technology refresh.

Drift the Map / Director (2023-present)

Founder of a series of free monthly neighborhood history walks, co-sponsored by the Museum of Design Atlanta, exploring Civil Rights Movement history, historic preservation, urbanism, and public art.

Agnes Scott College / Adjunct Professor of Printmaking (2024-present)

Georgia State University / Adjunct Professor of Photography (2024-present)

Emory University Department of Film and Media / Adjunct Professor (2017-2023)

Classes taught at the college level have included Photography I and II, Introduction to Filmmaking, Digital Post-Production, and Experimental Printmaking.

Skychief Media, LLC, 2000-2022

Photographer and commercial filmmaker creating interactive, TV, and print ads for national advertising and editorial clients.

Roy Barnes for Governor / Attorney (1998-1999)

Georgia Department of Natural Resources, 1999

Served as special advisor to the Director of the Environmental Protection Division.

Attorney at Law, 1996-2000