EDUCATION 

2015-2016, Imagining America Engagement Scholar Graduate Fellowship, Syracuse University

2015, BFA Art Photography, Syracuse University

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017, The Auburn System: Photographs by Joe Librandi-Cowan, The Gallery, SUNY Onondaga, Syracuse, NY

2016, The Auburn System: Photographs by Joe Librandi-Cowan, Cayuga Museum of History and Art, Auburn, NY

2015, I Never Forgot For a Moment, SALTQuarters, Syracuse, NY

2013, Shared Space: Photography by Joe Librandi-Cowan, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025, Material Proxy: Photographs by Joe Librandi-Cowan & Rosemary Haynes, Living Skin, Brooklyn, NY

2023, 50th Anniversary: Selections from Light Work Collection, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY

2022, Tú Eres Tú, CAV Gallery, Las Cruces, NM

2021, The Family Of, Peep Space, Tarrytown, NY

2017, Prison: Families of Incarcerated; Prison Towns, Photographs by Joe Librandi-Cowan and Isadora Kosofsky, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY

2014, Middle Gray: Photography by Ian Sherlock, Lauren Zallo, and Joe Librandi-Cowan, Martin Stankiewicz Gallery, Tarrytown, NY

2015, 2013, Made In New York, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY

HONORS/GRANTS

2025, Light Work Grant In Photography

2019, Selected Attendee, Fotofilmic Workshop, "On Making A Photobook (That Matters)" with Alec Soth, Bowen Island, British Columbia

2019, Selected Attendee, Chico Hot Springs Portfolio Review

2018, Selected Attendee, New York Times Portfolio Review

2018, Selected Attendee, Young Photographer's Alliance Summer Mentorship

2017, Light Work Grant In Photography

2015, Finger Lakes Community Arts Grant

2014, Best in Show, Light Work Student Showcase, Selected by Kate Barrett, Associate Photography editor for Wallpaper Magazine in London

SELECTED ARTICLES

2019, The Auburn System, Booooooom feature

2018, The Auburn System, Vogue Italia feature

2017, BBC World Update in Pictures, Growing up in the Home of the Electric Chair

2017, Interview with Pete Brook of the Prison Photography Project

2016, Lensculture Feature on The Auburn System

2017, Some Time With Moe, VSCO Feature