Joey Rose is a freelance muralist, illustrator and painter located in Emeryville, California. He received his BFA in Illustration at California College of the Arts with distinction. Joey is a licensed painting Contractor, and has combined his technical abilities with his art practice to paint whimsical, meaningful murals across the Bay Area, CA and Hawaii. Joey's murals are always site-specific and generally are inspired by the local environment and it's inhabitants.
Email: joey@joeyrosestudio.com
Call or Text: 530.306.4364
@joeyrosestudio
Contractor License #1036970
EDUCATION
CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS
2013-2017
San Francisco, CA
BFA in Illustration with Distinction
MURALS
2016 BALDWIN HIGH SCHOOL Wailuku, HI
2017 CCA DONOR GALA San Francisco, CA
2017 SONNY VICK’S PAVING COMPANY Waikapu, HI
2017 BRYANT STREET APARTMENTS San Francisco, CA
2018 EMERYVILLE GREENWAY Emeryville, CA
2018 HABITAT HORTICULTURE Berkeley, CA
2018 HOALOHA FARMS Waikapu, HI
2019 PANGEASEED FOUNDATION’S SEAWALLS: MAUI, Wailuku, HI
2019 POPSOCKETS San Francisco CA
2019 KIPLING RETAIL Livermore, CA
2019 7 STILLS MISSION TAPROOM San Francisco, CA
2019 SUNNYVALE STATE OF THE CITY Sunnyvale, CA
2019 7 STILLS 100 HOOPER TAPROOM San Francisco, CA
2020 PRIVATE RESIDENCE Latrobe, CA
2020 PANGEASEED HOME 2020 Emeryville, CA
2020 FRANCISCO ST APARTMENTS San Francisco, CA
2020 LOKELANI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL Kihei, HI
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2017-Present Licensed California State Contractor C-33 Painting and Decorating #1036970
2014 Appnexio Graphic Designer
2015-17 Maintained and Installed Living Walls for Habitat Horticulture
2016 Collaborated with local artists for a mural at Baldwin High School, Wailuku, HI
2018-Present Contract graphic artist for Popsockets LLC
2018 Collaborated with U.C. Berkeley’s Essig Museum of Entomology to design and complete two public, large-scale murals and corresponding interpretive signs for The City of Emeryville’s Greenway Park.
2018 Led and organized a team of Artists for the creation of a compost center mural on Hoaloha Farms, Waikapu, HI
2019 Chosen as a guest artist for Pangeaseed Foundation’s Seawalls: Maui. Donated mural for ocean awareness and education, Wailuku, HI
2019 Live mural painting for Sunnyvale’s State of the City 2019 Co-curated the 2019 CCA Illustration Alumni Gallery Show
2020 Assisted Edwin Ushiro at Pow! Wow! Mural Festival’s 10-year Anniversary
2020 Featured Artist and Panelist in Pangeaseed Foundation’s HOME 2020 Mural Festival
2020 Future Public Art project for the City of Dublin’s Butterfly Knoll Park with an emphasis on Community Engagement and native butterflies - to be completed Fall 2020 Judge for Bow Seat's Ocean Awareness Youth Art Competition
2020-21 Core Team member for Pangeaseed Foundation’s Seawalls Mural Festival: Santa Cruz
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The City of Emeryville, CA
The City of Wailuku, HI
PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA
Irizarry, Alyssa. “Meet a Wavemaker: Artists Alexandra Underwood & Joey Rose.” Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs, Bow Seat, 27 Feb. 2019, bowseat.org/news/meet-a-wavemaker-artists-alexandra-underwood-joey-rose/.
Tanji, Melissa. “Painting Wailuku town in ‘Sea Walls.”’ Maui News, 29 Jan. 2019, www.mauinews.com/news/local-news/2019/01/painting-wailuku-town-in-sea-walls/
Oboyski, Peter. “Ascend with Bay Area Insects.” Essig Museum of Entomology, 10 Oct. 2018, essig.berkeley.edu/ascend/.
Towne, Erika. “Sunnyvale's State of the City Address a Breath of Fresh Air.” The Silicon Valley Voice, The Silicon Valley Voice, 18 Sept. 2019, www.svvoice.com/sunnyvales-state-of-the-city-address-a-breath-of-fresh-air/.
Streetartsf. “Riding with Insects.” Street Art SF, 27 June 2018, streetartsf.tumblr.com/post/175289666439/riding-with-insects-joey-rose-west-by-midwest.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2013 El Dorado Arts Council Scholarship
2013-17 Lucille Knutson Leslie Scholarship
TEACHING
2016 Hui No’eau Camp Kaluanui Teaching Assistant, Makawao, HI
2016 Ponderosa High School Art Program Guest Speaker, Shingle Springs, CA
2016-17 Robert Hunt Teaching Assistant CCA Illustration Department, San Francisco, CA
2018 Professional Practice Guest Speaker CCA Illustration Department, San Francisco, CA
2019 Professional Practice Guest Speaker CCA Illustration Department, San Francisco, CA
2020 Professional Practice Guest Speaker CCA Illustration Department, San Francisco, CA