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joe grillo

Born in 1980 in Meteor City, Arizona, currently lives and works in Virginia Beach, Va. Grillo is co-founder of the art collective Dearraindrop since 1998. Grillo has exhibited works in the US & internationally. Recent solo shows have been The Hole, New York and solo exhibition at Loyal Gallery Sweden. Group exhibitions include Cooper Cole, Toronto; Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York; CANADA gallery, New York; OHWOW, LosAngeles; V1, Copenhagen; Max Wigram, London; Peres Projects, Berlin; Andrea Melas Presents, Athens;Deitch Projects, New York and John Connelly Presents, New York.

Dearraindrop have had solo shows at V, Copenhagen; LOYAL Stockholm, Perugi, Padua; Kavi Gupta, Chicago; Deitch Projects, New York and PS1 MOMA, New York. Their work is part of the Leif Djurhuus Collection which was exhibited at the ARoS Museum in Aarhus, Dk and they’ve been in group exhibitions at The Garage Center in Moscow and MACRO Museum in Rome.