Bio
During the late 1960s-70s Joann Renner grew up in York, PA and Seaside Heights, NJ alternately. She earned her BA Studio Art/Art History at the University of Pittsburgh, PA in 1986. She has had 4 solo exhibitions, and participated in numerous juried and nonjuried group exhibitions since then. She did take several years off from exhibiting to raise her family after caring for her mother who was injured in a car accident in the mid-1980s. Current member of the Pittsburgh Pastel Artists League, Pittsburgh Society of Artists, and the Create! Collective.
Her primary work is in Expressionist/Surrealist oil & pastel painting, with some acrylics using themes of looking for the unseen connections, shared sense of experience.
Featured artist in “The Great Book of Artmakers – 2025 Edition”, ATH Magazine no.8 and "Art and Woman", collector books curated and published by the Arts to Hearts Project, an international arts organization for women artists. Joann is also featured in the inaugural publication of The Art Queens Quarterly Vol. 1 (AQ1), highlighting the work of Art Queens Society members, curated by Ekaterina Popova, published by Create! magazine. The pastel painting, "Salmon Run", was featured in "Nocturnal Canvas 2" (Aug. 2023), a collaborative concert of art and music presented by world-renowned composer and pianist Margin Alexander, who composed original music specifically for each artwork. In Dec. 2023, Joann was a guest on the podcast, Intuitive Art Sales with Jessica Craddock, Episode 59 - Joann Renner, available on Spotify.
Joann is also co-author of “The Creative Lifebook 2: Radical Self-Love”, #1 international bestselling book collaboration about creativity, published by IlluminateOurWorld.com (Jess Hughes Media).
