Jimmy Joe Roche is an American Visual Artist residing in Baltimore, MD.
Roche is a member of the arts collective Wham City. His videos have screened
internationally in venues including the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Boston
Institute of Contemporary Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, Incubate Arts festival in
Holland and Rojo@Nova 2010 in Brazil. In 2008 Roche had his first solo exhibition at
Rare Gallery in New York, 2010 marked his second solo exhibition in Colorado at the
Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, and in January 2011, he opened his third
solo exhibition, Under Pressure, at Rare Gallery. His work has appeared in numerous
publications including Beautiful Decay, The New Museum’s “Younger Than Jesus” Artist
Directory, “100” a new book by Francesca Gavin published in 2011, and a feature
article in the November 2011 issue of the Spanish Art Magazine BELIO. Roche is a
recipient of the 2012 new work residency at \\ Harvestworks // in NYC and is
preparing for a two man show with fellow artist Nathaniel Mellor at the Baltimore
Museum of Art in the Summer of 2013.
