Joel Silverstein was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1957 and attended Pratt Institute BFA in Painting, 1979, MPS in Art Therapy 1982, and Brooklyn College MFA in Painting, 1992.

He has shown nationally and internationally at the Hebrew Union College Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, NY, JADA, Art Basel, Miami, the Van Leer Institute, the Mishkan Le’Omanut Museum, Israel, Greenkill Gallery, Kingston NY, the Amstelkirk Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands, the Rabbi Ario S. and Tess Hyams Judaica Museum, Roslyn Hts., NY, the Pratt Hadas Gallery Rohr Center, NY, the Columbia/Bernard Kraft Center NY, and Jerusalem Biennial, 2015 and 17.

The artist/critic is a Founding and Executive Member of the Jewish Art Salon has curated or advised on 15 Salon exhibitions including: Through Compassionate Eyes; Artists Call for Animal Rights at the Charter Oak Center, Hartford Ct., POW!!! for Jewish Comic Con, The Dura Europos Project, both at the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art and UJA NY. Upcoming curated exhibitions also include, The Samaritans, A Biblical People at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC and Frankfurt Germany, and Genesis, the Beginning of Creativity at the Interchurch Center and Riverside Church in NY. His work and curated exhibitions are cited in Ori Z. Soltes’ Tradition and Transformation; Three Millennium of Jewish Art & Architecture and Matthew Baigell’s Jewish Identity in American Art, A Golden Age Since the 1970’s.

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