Joan Hooker received her B.A. at Smith College in Massachusetts in 1965 and later studied at both the Corcoran School of Art and Columbia University. In 1989 she began the Illustration degree program at Pratt Institute, receiving her MFA in Painting at the NY Academy of Art in 1993.
Over the past ten years Joan Hooker has exhibited widely in and around New York City in exhibitions at the National Academy of Design Museum, the New York Academy of Art, the Salmagundi Club, the National Arts Club, the Roxbury Arts Center, the Rockland Center for the Arts, the Ridge Street Gallery, and the Newington-Cropsey Foundation Gallery. She has also exhibited at The Butler Institute of American Art in Ohio and the Stamford Art Association in Connecticut.
Joan Hooker has also had several individual exhibitions. Her individual exhibitions in The Gallery on 2nd in New York City (1998) and at the Allen Sheppard Gallery (2001). More recently her work has been exhibited in Maine at the Penobscot Marine Museum and the Sea Studio in Tenants Harbor in the group exhibition entitled, “Four Maine Women.”
Joan Hooker’s life and work have been featured in several publications including Segni d’Arte and on the cover of the Bergen Record News Sunday Magazine Section. Joan currently lives and paints in Palisades, New York.