Joanne Aono is a visual artist, curator, and holistic farmer. Her research-based drawings and installations address identity, immigration, and the environment. Her solo exhibitions include Boundary (Chicago), Mosnart (Chicago), Lee Dulgar Gallery (South Holland), and the Geneva Center for the Arts. She has been included in two-person and group exhibitions at Yale’s Institute of Sacred Music (New Haven, CT), Firecat Projects (Chicago), the Illinois State Museum (Chicago, Springfield, and Lockport), Terrain Biennial, Rockford Art Museum, and O’Connor Art Gallery, Dominican University. She has received several Illinois Arts Council and Chicago DCASE grants, and an Artist Run Chicago HPAC grant. Her art has been reviewed in publications such as Hyperallergic, the Chicago Reader, Chicago Magazine, and the Huffington Post. She has served on the Riverside Arts Center’s exhibition committee since 2016. Aono is Director of the alternative art project, Cultivator - Chicago Art Exhibitions & Farm Art Projects and maintains a studio at Bray Grove Farm in north central Illinois.