Joice M. Hall graduated from the Alberta College of Art in 1965 with a major in painting. Through the 1970s, she juggled her studio practice with raising a family. During this time and into the 1980s she added another dimension with sessional teaching at both the Alberta College of Art and the University of Calgary. Also in the l980’s she served as chairperson of the Calgary Review Committee of the Alberta Art Foundation. In 1990, she was invited by the Alberta Art Foundation to represent Alberta artists at the official opening of “Spaces and Places: Eight Decades of Landscape Painting in Alberta” in Sapporo, Japan. This traveling exhibition was organized by the Alberta Art Foundation to commemorate the Tenth Anniversary of the twinning of Alberta and Hokkaido. Through the 1990s, Joice lived and worked six months of every year, in her home in San Miguel De Allende, Mexico. In l994, Joice began the panoramic format that she continues to utilize in her landscape paintings of the Okanagan. Since 1999, Joice has lived in Kelowna, British Columbia. She was elected to membership in the Royal Canadian Academy in the year 2000.

 

Joice M. Hall is also represented in numerous corporate and private collections in Canada and the U.S. She has been commissioned to do paintings for Calgary’s Foothills Hospital and Government of Canada Building.

Notable among Joice M. Hall’s long list of solo exhibitions is the traveling exhibition entitled “Floating” that was organized by the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Lethbridge, Alberta in September 1987. The exhibition then traveled to the Nickle Arts Museum in Calgary, Alberta in December of that same year and the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario in 1990-91. In 1994, Joice had a solo exhibition entitled “Festive Images of San Miguel” at the Centro Cultural el Nigromante in San Miguel De Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.

Joice M. Hall has also participated in many group exhibitions since 1969 in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Japan, China and Italy.