Vita

Grants & Awards:

2022 Finalist Art Revolution Taipei, Taiwan. Nominated for the "International Artist Grand Prize of Taipei", Taiwan

2021 Circle Quarterly Magazine Contest, Award of Artistic Excellence, USA

2021 44th Artavita Online Art Contest, USA

2021 Silver Award "Artist Choice VI", Camelback Gallery, USA

2021 Finalist The 43rd International Artavita Online Art Contest 2021, USA

2021 Special Recognition Award "CityScapes" Art Exhibition 2021. The Light Space & Time Art Gallery, USA

2020 Winner of "Artist of the Future Award" Contemporary Art Curator Magazine, USA

2020 Finalist Artavita, "In time of the Coronavirus", USA

2019 & 2020 Finalist Circle Foundation of the Arts, "Artist of the Year 2019 & 2020", USA

2018 & 2019 Finalist Art Revolution Taipei, Taiwan. Nominated for the "International Artist Grand Prize of Taipei", Taiwan

Artistic education:
1965 - 1966 Preliminary Course, School of Design and Art Basel, Switzerland
1966 - 1970 Graphics & Printing Technology, Basel, Switzerland
1970 - 1971 Graphic arts education, Zurich, Switzerland
1971 - 1972 Training Graphic, Cape Town, South Africa
1973 - 1974 Basel School of Applied Arts, Basel, Switzerland 

1990 - 1991 Art Lesson in Aboriginal Symbols, Dot Painting & Patterning, Sydney, Australi

Joey Schmidt-Muller is an active member of the German Avantgarde Scene. Moving from Later Surrealism and the New Objectivity, he joined the already established Vienna School of the Fantastic Realism. The confrontation with social criticism led to Joey's new style, "The Traumatic Realism", as a development of the New Objectivity of 1933. Pain, torture, nightmares and fears scream at us in creatures dancing and fighting, diving and flying who are intended to arouse our level of consciousness and lead us from our condition of prisoners to self-liberation.

The artworks of Joey Schmidt-Muller (pseudonym "Josua" until 1986) are located in various art collections in Switzerland, Germany, Turkey, Ungarn & Israel. Endress & Hauser art collection, Germany. The Ernesto Schmidt art collection, Switzerland and the Carl Laszlo art collection, Hungary. A. Kitschmann art collection, Basel, CH