Joe Decker

Solo Exhibitions

Saga, Stanford Art Spaces, Stanford University, Stannford, California, 2008.
Above the Arctic Circle, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, California, 2007.
The Frigid Landscape, Hotel California, Palo Alto, California, 2007.
Classic Landscapes, Blue Front Cafe, San Francisco, California, 2005.
Signatures of the Sun, ART21, Palo Alto, California, 2004.
Natural Monuments, REI, Saratoga, California, 2004.
Signatures of the Sun, Crepes on Cole, San Francisco, California, 2004.
An Unexpected Exhibition, Big Basin Bistro, Saratoga, California, 2003-2004.
Chromatic Monuments, ART21, Palo Alto, California, 2003.

Selected Group Exhibitions

Snap to Grid, LACDA, Los Angeles, California, 2006.
Flower Power, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, California, 2006
Roseville Arts! 30th Annual Open Juried, Roseville, California, 2005
PhotoCentral Annual Spring Show, PhotoCentral, Hayward, California, 2005.
Full Spectrum, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, California, 2005.
Beautiful Earth, Hotel Cosmo, San Francisco, California, 2004.
Photography Defined, Squat and Gobble, San Francisco, California, 2004.
In Light Of..., Hollis Street Project, Emeryville, California, 2004.
Primary Colors, Hotel Cosmo, San Francisco, California, 2003-2004.
Chromatic Monuments Redux, Capital Planning Partners, San Jose, California, 2003-2004.
Nature's Best Foundation Awards Exhibition, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 2003.
LGAA Membership Show, Los Gatos Museum of Art, Los Gatos, California, 2003.
Selected Works, Eight Forty North First, San Jose, California, 2003.
LGAA Open Juried Show, Los Gatos Museum of Art, Los Gatos, California, 2003.
Selected works from "October", Liberate Technologies, San Carlos, California, 2001-2002.

Selected Awards and Honors

Arist-in-Residence, Petrified Forest National Park, 2008
1st Prize, Flower Power, Pacific Art League, 2006.
1st Prize, Monochrome, Elizabeth Norton Gallery, PAL, 2005.
NASA/USRA Earth Science Photograph of the Day, March 5, 2005.
"Highly Honored", 2003 Nature's Best International Photography Awards.

Selected Collectors

Standard & Poors, Palo Alto, CA.
Betty Walker, El Cerrito, CA
Margaret and Gene Szedenits, Ypsilanti, MI.
Katherine and Tim Walton, Fremont, CA.
Paul Jenson, Lubbock, TX.

Education

Taking the Leap, Professional Practices Program, 2003-2004. Emeryville, CA.
Richard Knepp Photographics. Studied under Rick Knepp, 1999-2004. Various locations.
Mountain Light Gallery. Studied under Galen Rowell in 1999-2001, and David Muench in 2004, Bishop, CA.
Calypso Imaging. Digital printing under Charlie Cramer and Bill Atkinson, 2001. Santa Clara, CA.
Caltech, Mathematics, 1984, Pasadena, CA.