Joey Veltkamp (born 1972 in Helena, Montana) is a queer artist who uses bright and colorful imagery to comfort the viewer. Elevating every day common items, such a list of...
Joey Veltkamp (born 1972 in Helena, Montana) is a queer artist who uses bright and colorful imagery to comfort the viewer. Elevating every day common items, such a list of summer berries or a plastic bucket of flowers, acts as a reminder to look for joy in unexpected places.
Joey’s work has been collected by Seattle Art Museum, Microsoft, Meta, Starbucks, Sea-Tac International Airport, Amazon, and others. He received an Artist Trust GAP Grant in 2019, and is a previous Neddy Award Finalist (2010, 2014). His "soft paintings" have been shown at Tacoma Art Museum, Frye Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, and Bellevue Arts Museum, where he had his inaugural solo museum exhibition in 2022. Joey has lived in the Puget Sound region since 1996. He has five cats and one husband. He is represented by Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle, Washington.