JOEL C. SHEESLEY   
MFA, University of Denver, School of Art
BFA, Syracuse University, School of Art
Emeritus Professor of Art, Wheaton College

0N345 Willow Rd.
Wheaton, IL 60187 
630-363-6997  
Joel.Sheesley@wheaton.edu

Solo Exhibitions

2025
Sept ‘24-Feb”25, “Earth and Sky: Celebrating the Local Landscape,” Wilson Gallery, Fermilab, Batavia, IL.

2024                  
July-August, “Learning the Land: Stewarding Beauty,” The Depot Museum & Art Gallery, Beverly Shores, IN.
June-July, “Real Places,” Dempsey Family Gallery, Water Street Studios, Batavia, IL.

2023                
Sept-Dec. “West Branch Diary: A Painterly Perspective,” Mayslake Peabody Estate, Oak Brook, IL.

2021              
July-Sept. “Less (and) More: Modernism Greets the River Landscape,” Edith Farnsworth House, Barnsworth Gallery, Plano, IL.

2019                  
Sept-Nov. "A Fox River Testimony: Select Works,” Elgin History Museum, Elgin, IL.
April-May. "A Fox River Testimony: Select Works,”, Little White School Museum, Oswego, IL.
Feb-May. "A Fox River Testimony: Select Works by Joel Sheesley,” Geneva History Museum, Geneva, IL.

2018        
Sept-Dec. “Joel Sheesley: A Fox River Testimony,” inaugural exhibition at: Schingoethe Center of Aurora University, Aurora, IL.

2017
Sept-Nov. "Heaven and Earth,"  Fireside Gallery Beamer Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL.

 2016
Nov-Dec., "Vigil," with David Hooker, Walford Galleries, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL.

2015
April-June, "Landscape the Knowable Mystery" Billy Graham Center Museum and eleven concurrent exhibition sites in city-wide exhibition, Wheaton, IL.
Sept,  "Silent Witness," Windgate Visual Arts West Gallery, John Brown University, Siloam Springs, AR.

2013
Nov-Dec., “Evidence on the Pavement,” Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL

2012
May-June, “Self Portrait/Personal Apocalypse,” Hansen Galleries, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL
Feb.-March, “Testimony of the Pavement,” The 930, Louisville, KY.
Jan.- Feb., “A Content of Sorts,” Ford Center for the Arts, Knox College, Galesburg, IL.

2011
Sept.-Nov., “Trekking Stubborn,” Frick Center, Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL.
Aug.-Sept., “The Long Wait,” SXU Gallery, Saint Xavier University, Chicago, IL.

2010
Jan.-April., “Up Is Down,” Michigan Avenue Galleries, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL.

2009
Jan.-Feb., “Mirror of Nature,” Beard Arts Center, Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, IN.

2008
Aug.-Nov., “Domestic Vision: Twenty-Five Years of the Art of Joel Sheesley,”   Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University,Valparaiso, IN.
March-April, “The View From Here,” John Brown University, Siloam Springs, AR.
March, “Not a Lifesaving Device,” Finestra Artspace, Chicago, IL.
Jan.-Feb., “Above and Below,” Adams Gallery, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL.

2007
Aug.-Sept., “Joel Sheesley,” Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI.

2005
Sept.-Nov., “Art @ Home,” Draewell Gallery, Judson College, Elgin, IL.
Oct. –Dec., “Human/Nature,” gescheidle, 118 N. Peoria, Chicago, IL.

2004
Jan-Feb., “Paintings,” Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL.

2003
Oct., “(Be)tween,” gescheidle, 300 West Superior St., Chicago, IL.
Summer, ’03, “Selected Paintings,” Laity Lodge, Kerrville, Texas,.
Jan. –March, “Intimate Geography,” St. Peter’s Church, 54th St. and Lexington, NYC.

2002
Nov.-Dec., “The Painted Journey,” Safety-Kleen Gallery One, Elgin Community College, Elgin, Il
May-June, “Intimate Geography,” Wood Street Gallery, 1239 N. Wood, Chicago.

2001
Sept., “Sheesley/Witkin,” Center Art Gallery, Calvin College, Grand Rapids,MI
Mar.-Aprl., “New Paintings,” Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI.

2000
Oct. – Nov., “Interiors,” Barrington Center for the Arts, Gordon College, Wenham, MA.
Sept. – Dec. “Eve in Suburbia: Paintings by Joel Sheesley,” The Olson Gallery, Bethel College, St. Paul, MN
Sept., “Scenes on the Journey,” Moreau Art Galleries, St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN.
Apr., “Paintings from the Journey,” Union U. Gallery of Art, Union U., Jackson, TN
Mar. - Apr., “More Than Enough,” Wood Street Gallery, 1239 N. Wood, Chicago.
Feb. - “Friends on the Journey,” Adams Gallery, Wheaton College, Wheaton,IL.

1999
Oct. - Nov., “Suburban Thesaurus,” Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, River Forest,
Feb., “Paintings: Journey Series,” Robert Kidd Gallery, 107 Townsend St., Birmingham, MI.

1998
March, “The Journey,” Wood Street Gallery, 1239 N. Wood, Chicago, IL.

1997
Feb., “New Paintings,” Weaver Gallery, Bethel College, Mishawaka IN.

1995
Feb., “Static Migration,” Kay Garvey Gallery, 230 W. Superior, Chicago, IL.1994
March, “Recent Work,” Vandervelde Gallery, Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL.

1993
October, “Choice Lots,” DeMattias Gallery, Kansas Newman College, Wichita, KS.
February, “Absence of Paradise,” Adams Gallery, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL.

1992
October, “Organized Play, “Sloan Gallery, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN.
September, “Level Fields,” Kubiak Gallery, Oneonta, NY.
January, “Suburban Thesaurus,” Kay Garvey Gallery, Chicago, Il.

1990
November, “Paintings,” Wilson Galleries, Anderson University, Anderson, IN.
March, “Paintings,” Lower Armington Center Gallery, Greenville College, Greenville, IL.

1987
November, “Domestic Policies,” Kay Garvey Gallery, Glen Ellyn, IL.

1986
November, “Provisional Measures,” Adams Gallery, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL.
September, “New Paintings,” Judson College, Elgin, IL.

l985
”Appropriate Techniques, Art and Development in Estancita,”   Documentation of art and development project completed in March, l985, in the Dominican Republic. Exhibition at Adams Hall Gallery, Wheaton College,Wheaton, IL.

1983
January, “No Autonomy,” Bernal Gallery, Chicago, IL.
April, “One Person Show,” Bernal Gallery, Chicago, IL.

1980
October, “Paintings,” Ludlow-Hyland Gallery, 20 East 35th Street, NYC