Joe Shannon

Joe Shannon (born 1933) is a stateside Puerto Rican artist, curator, art critic, and writer.

Education Shannon studied art at the Corcoran School of Art also in Washington, D.C., as an exhibition designer and curator. in Baltimore and for many years was the Washington, D.C., art critic for Art in America magazine. He worked and exhibited most of his life based out of Washington, D.C., and currently lives in Glen Echo, Maryland.

Shannon was born in Lares, Puerto Rico.

Artwork Shannon's paintings have been exhibited in many galleries and museums the Hirshhorn Museum, the American University Museum, the Yellowstone Art Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The Washington Post also stated that "Shannon is a masterful painter of the human figure." The New York Times art critic Grace Glueck also observed that "Mr. Shannon's brisk way of painting his urban grotesqueries - he gets it all down like a born storyteller without too much fuss over how - belies their disturbing content. They don't stay with you too long, but they do evoke our age of anxiety."