Joseph Havel (American, born 1954)

Joseph Havel was born in Minneapolis in 1954. He earned his B.F.A. from the University of Minnesota and his M.F.A. from Pennsylvania State University, University Park. Havel is currently the director of the Glassell School in Houston. He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1987 and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation in 1994. His work has been shown nationally and internationally including: the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth; the Stedlijk Museum, Amsertdam; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev. His works are in collections including: the Portland Art Museum, the Musée Arte, Roubaix, France; the Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu; the Dallas Museum of Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Havel had a one-person exhibition at Laumeier in 2006 entitled Drinks are boiling. Iced drinks are boiling.