Selected Grants, Awards, Residencies, Commissions

2025

Mural Commission, Forrest For The Trees, Seattle, WA
Artist Residency, Willapa Bay, Oysterville, WA

2023
Wassaic Artist Residency, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY

2021
Iris Project Residency, Iris Project, Los Angeles, CA

2020
Anne Tucker and Clint Willour Young Photographers Endowment, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
Individual Artist Grant, MadArt, Seattle, WA
Mural Commission, Knotel, Los Angeles, CA

2019
Mural Commission, Facebook Artist-in-Residence Program, Seattle, WA
Riff’s Residency Program, Photo Center Northwest, Seattle, WA

2018
Clowes Fellowship Award, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

2016
Future List Award, City Arts Magazine, Seattle, WA

2015
Kintsugi Album Cover, Death Cab for Cutie, Atlantic Records
Artist Residency, Fellowship Award, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

Select Group Exhibitions

2025
Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, So It Goes
Europa, Seattle, WA, Good Morning
Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, The More You Look, The More You See

2024
Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, Seen Together
Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Feeling Blue

2023
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, Throughlines
Photofairs NY, New York, NY, Eight Radically Different Approaches to Photography
PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR, You belong among the wildflowers

2022
The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, In Dialogue
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX, A History of Photography
Winston Wachter, Seattle, WA, Pathways

2020
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA, Beyond the Surface: The Photograph as Object

2019
Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO, Elemental Construction

2017
Hedreen Gallery, Seattle, WA, AND NOT OR
King Street Station, Seattle, WA, Out of Sight

2016
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, Photography and Contemporary Experience

2015
Whatcom Museum of Art, Bellingham, WA, Bellingham National

Selected Publications

Stewart, Jessica. "Non-Profit Uses Public Art To Activate the Once-Forgotten Spaces in Seattle's Pioneer Square." My Modern Met, September 10, 2025.

Le, Anh-Minh. "Found Photos Are the Core Element of This Seattle Artist's Work." Luxe Interiors and Design, August 13, 2024.

Kolaj Magazine, Issue 40, 2024.

Wells, Antares. "Artist Joe Rudko on the Liberating Power of Collage." Cut and Paste, Getty Museum, December 20, 2023.

Zellen, Jody. "Joe Rudko: 'Double Take' Commanding Attention." Art Now LA, November 13, 2023.

Hale, Corianton. "Joe Rudko's Abstract Reflections." The Stranger, November 28, 2022.

Gifford, Ashley. "Photography, Assemblage & Beyond: A Conversation with Joe Rudko." Art & About, December 9, 2021.

Nys Dambrot, Shana. "Gallery Rounds: Joe Rudko." Artillery Magazine, December 9, 2021.

Smithson, Aline. "Joe Rudko: Untitled Colors at the Von Lintel Gallery." Lenscratch, October 30, 2021.

Pothast, Emily. "Joe Rudko at Greg Kucera." Art in America, April 1, 2019.

Keimig, Jasmyne. "Same as it Ever Was: Joe Rudko's New Show in Three Parts." The Stranger, February 8, 2019.

Kiley, Brendan. "Postcards from a Trip through Pioneer Square's Galleries and Graffiti." The Seattle Times, January 17, 2019.

Raymond, John. "Joe Rudko: PDX Contemporary Art." Artforum, Vol. 56, No. 10, Summer 2018.

Speer, Richard. "Joe Rudko." Visual Art Source, April 2018.

Rabin, Jennifer. "Joe Rudko: The Photographer's Eye." Oregon ArtsWatch, June 16, 2016.

Manitach, Amanda. "The Iconoclast: Joe Rudko." City Arts, December 2015.

Fukt Magazine for Contemporary Drawing, Issue 14, September 2015.

Speer, Richard. "Joe Rudko: Picturesque." Willamette Week, May 2015.

"Joe Rudko's Object Drawings." Juxtapoz, October 8, 2014.