Joe Sorren

Joe Sorren (born in 1970 in Chicago) is an American contemporary painter associated with the Lowbrow and New Contemporary Art movements. He grew up in Flagstaff, Arizona, and obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Northern Arizona University in 1993. He then spent several years in Florence and Barcelona.

His first solo exhibition dates from 1995. The Society of Illustrators in New York awarded him a gold medal. His images have appeared in The New Yorker, Time and Rolling Stone, and three monographs have been devoted to him. Over his career, he has collaborated with companies such as Warner Bros. His work has been exhibited internationally in galleries and museums. In 2010, the year of his first retrospective, he featured in "Art from the New World" at Bristol City Museum and in "Pop Surrealism" at Palazzo Collicola in Spoleto. In March 2024, Dorothy Circus Gallery London presented "Between the Wrinkles", nine new canvases drawn from his memories.

Joe Sorren is known for his dreamlike compositions and emotionally charged figures with pale faces, set in softly coloured landscapes. He paints in oil. He lives in Flagstaff, where he has painted a mural.