Resumé
FELLOWSHIPS AND RESIDENCIES
2025 Kala Art Residency, Berkeley, CA
2024 Russell Sage Foundation Fellowship
2024 Visiting Scholar, Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, University of Leiden
2024 Residency Fellowship, Bogliasco Foundation for Artists and Writers, Genoa
2023 David Coffin Prize, Center for Landscape Studies (for Global Queens)
2023 Rome Prize Finalist for Art and Architecture
2022 Distinguished Fellow, Advanced Research Collaborative, CUNY
2020 Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative Grant
2017 Bousfield Distinguished Visitor, University of Toronto
2016 Author of the Year, Missouri State Library Association, for Capturing the City
2015 Mellon Distinguished Fellowship, School of Architecture, Princeton University
2014 Visiting Faculty, University of Vienna, Graduate Summer Institute
2013 Visiting Faculty, Lisbon Consortium, Doctoral Program in Cultural Studies
2010 U.S. Fulbright Distinguished Chair for the United Kingdom, Chelsea College of
Art + Design (academic year)
2007 SAGES Visiting Faculty Fellow, Case Western Reserve University (declined)
2006 John Nichols Brown Center for the Humanities Visiting Fellowship
2004 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
ARTWORK FEATURED
"Joseph Heathcott's Global Queens." Interview by Josh McWhirther for Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture,
8 April 2024.
"Queens Close Up." Interview with Urban Omnibus: The Journal of the Architectural League of New York. 7 Dec 2023.
"Camera in Hand, Bringing a ‘Mash-up’ Borough into Focus." Interview with Urban Matters, Center for New York City
Affairs, 15 Nov 2023.
"Signal / Noise: Ambient Text in the Urban Landscape." Site Writing Quarterly, 2022.
"The Multicolored Street Markets of Mexico City." The Guardian, 15 October 2018.
"Los Tianguis de CDMX." Interview with Sérgio Perez in Vice magazine, 25 Oct 2018.
"Photographer Joseph Heathcott analyses the changes of a global society," Nomad Age, 16 October 2017. Article about my
photography in popular travel blog.
"Facades Around The World." Photogrist Magazine, Apr 2017.
"Urban Data Streams." Photographic series. Domus, Mar 2017.
Interview with Yale University School of Architecture student newspaper Apr 2017.
Interviewed for St. Louis on the Air, KWMU 90.7FM, with co-author Angela Dietz, discussing our exhibit
Capturing the City, 2016.
Interviewed for NBC Channel 5, KSDK St. Louis, with co-author Angela Dietz, for a televised segment of Show Me St. Louis
on location at the Missouri History Museum's Capturing the City exhibit, 2016.
Profiled in Macmag 36 (February 2011). Annual publication of the Mackintosh School of Architecture,
Glasgow Achool of Art.
"The Urban Oblique." Featured photographic series, Folly magazine, November 2011.
PUBLISHED ARTWORK
Mexico City Unveilled. Book forthcoming from Anthem Press, 2026.
Queens: A Global Urban Mosaic. Book. Fordham University Press, 2023.
"A Green Oasis in the Megacity." On Landscape magazine, July 2023.
"Notes on the Peri-Urban Landscapes of Oaxaca." Edge Effects, September 2022.
"The House that Anti-Fascism Built: Red Vienna, 1919-1939." Platform, Oct 2021.
"A Street in Bratislava." Platform, March 2020.
"Syntopic Landscape: The Wholesale Market at Oaxaca." Platform, Jan 2020.
"Urban Agendas." Platform, 24 June 2019.
"Cyclist, North St. Louis." The Fourth River magazine, Nov 2018.
"Shops at Night, Jackson Heights." Photograph. Packinghouse Review, Fall 2018.
"Chairs, Brooklyn." Photograph selected for the cover of Blue Mesa Review, Fall 2018.
"Rumors of a New City." Collage. Bad Penny Review, April 2015.
"Vendors, Mombasa, 1995." Photograph. Chaffey Review VIII, Spring 2015.
"Boundary Worlds." Urban Omnibus, 15 January 2015.
"Morning in the Casbah, Marrakech, 2010." Photograph. 34th Parallel, October 2013.
"Loot." Graphic appropriation. Dark Matter 11, Fall 2013.
"Setting Table in Old Stone Town, Zanzibar." Photographs. The Inquisitive Eater, Jun 2013.
"The Archival Uncanny: A Photograph, A Family Lacunae." Rhizomes 23, March 2012.
"When Angels Held Fast." Worked photograph. 5 x 5 magazine, Winter 2011.
"Six Miles from Wall Street." Collage. Bosporus Art Quarterly, Summer 2011.
"One Night in Belleville, Paris, 2011." Photographic series for Streetnotes, June 2011.
"Surface Moments, Marrakech." Photographic essay for Camera Obscura, Mar 2011.
"Sacred to the Memory." Worked photograph. Bosporus Art Quarterly, Winter 2010.
"Cognitive Map of Rosedale." Drawing. On Site Review, Summer 2009.
"Block Signs." Photographic essay in Public Phenomena (Half Letter Press) 2008.
Zanzibar's Old Stone Town Market. Project for Public Spaces, The World's Sixty Greatest Public Spaces, 2004.
EXHIBITS AND JURIED ART SHOWS
"Waiting Room, Institut Pasteur, Rabat, Morocco, 2019." Photograph for juried group show, Intersect Arts Center,
St. Louis, MO, Sept 2025-Mar 2026.
"Climate Strike, Paris: Gathering," "Climate Strike, Paris: Occupation," and Climate Strike, Paris: Marching." Three
photographs selected for group show at the Chicago Center for Photojournalism, Oct 2024-Mar 2025.
"Global Queens: An Urban Mosaic." Exhibition of Photographs at the University of Virginia School of Architecture,
September-October 2024.
"Adapted for Devotion: Religion and Space in Queens." Selection of 40 photographs as part of an installation in the exhibit
City of Faith, curated by Azra Dawood, Museum of the City of New York, May-October 2023.
"The Street Markets of Mexico City." Selection of ten large prints included by invitation to the inaugural group show
Markets Through Contemporary Art, installed at the Museo Del Banco de México, Jul-Dec 2022.
"After the Fire, Roses." Photograph for juried group show, Core Art Space, Denver, CO, May-June 2018.
"Colonia Federal, Mexico City." Photograph for juried group show, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, May-Jun 2018.
"Buy, Sell, Trade." Photograph for juried group show, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO, Sept-Nov 2017.
"Santa Katarina at Night, 2017" and "Street Scene, Chinatown, 2016." Two photographs for juried group show Being
Sentient, Sentient Being, Allegheny Arts Council, Cumberland, MD, Sept-Oct 2017.
"Capturing the City: Photographs from the Streets of St. Louis, 1900-1930." Exhibit co-curated with Angela Dietz, Missouri
History Museum, Sept 2016-Jan 2017.
"Crosswalk, Faubourg St-Antoine." Rendered photograph for juried group show, Art League of Rhode Island,
Providence, RI, Sept-Oct 2016.
"Whose River Is It?" Rendered photograph with graphic elements for juried group show, Site:Brooklyn Gallery,
New York, NY, May-June 2016.
"Urban Powerpointing." Collage for juried group show, Thompson Gallery, Weston, MA, Feb-Mar 2016.
"Mattresses, Tryon Road, Charlotte." Photograph for juried group show, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR. Oct-Dec 2015.
"Die Kobolde in Der Stadt." Collage for juried group show, The Studio Door Gallery, San Diego, CA. May-July 2015.
"Urban Typefaces." Photograph for juried group show, Oceana Gallery, San Francisco. Nov-Dec 2013.
"Borderlands." Installation of photographs and archival maps detailing the Brooklyn-Queens border landscapes, prepared
for the reopening of the Queens Museum of Art. Nov 2013-Jan 2014.
"Post-Acropolis." Five photographers document the Midwest metropolitan landscape, with work by Michael Allen, Toby
Weiss, Robert Powers, Clare Boyd, and John Montre. Curator. City Hall Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany, May-June 2010.
"Vertical City: The Life and Design of Pruitt-Igoe." Curator. Gallery of Architecture, University of Utah,
September - November 2007.
"Vertical City: The Life and Design of Pruitt-Igoe." Curator. Wolk Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
October 2004 - February 2005.
"The School and the City: 75 Years of Social Work at Saint Louis University." Installation, oral history project, and
archival initiative. May 2004-October 2005. Principal investigator.
"Brick by Brick." An exhibit on the history of the St. Louis brick industry, drawn from the Giles collection. Cupples House
Museum and Institute , April 2004 - September 2004. Guest curator.
"Looking Back at Looking Forward: Centennial of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition." Missouri Historical Society,
April-December 2004. Guest curator.
"Vertical City: The Life and Design of Pruitt-Igoe." Curator. Sheldon Galleries, October 2003 - January 2004.
"Cities Illuminated." An exhibit of rare book illustrations. Lily Rare Book Library, Indiana University. Fall 1998. Curator.