• 2022 Whyte, Murray, “Gorgeous Trash and Radical Recycling at ICA’s Watershed”, The Boston Globe, 5/26/2022

• 2022 Brown, Joel, “Words on Labor, Writ Large at the ICA Watershed” Bostonia Magazine, 7/25/2022

• 2021 McQuaid, Cate, “Love Letters to Roxbury” The Boston Globe, 11/24/2021

• 2018 McQuaid, Cate, “Something to Sing about in “Everyone Has Moved off to One Side’ ” The Boston Globe, 10/3/2018

• 2017 Cook, Greg, “Our Guide to the Art inside MASSMoCA’s Gigantic New Building 6”, WBUR, radio review, 5/26/2017

• 2016 Kalb, Peter, “Landscape, Abstraction, Stencil, Text.”, catalogue in conjunction with “Soon I Wil be President” exhibition at McIninch Gallery, Southern New Hampshire University, 11/3/2016-12/17/2016

• 2014 McQuaid, Cate, “No Shorthand for Wardwell’s Feisty Effects” The Boston Globe, 7/1/2014

• 2012 McQuaid, Cate, “Recycling Things, History into Storytelling,” The Boston Globe, 3/24/2012

• 2012 Miller, Francine, “At the DeCordova Biennial: Dreams of Disneyland,” Art in America Online Review, 1/26/2012

• 2010 Garza, Evan J. “In the Studio: Joe Wardwell,” New American Paintings Blog 8/27/2010

• 2009 McQuaid, Cate, “Perspectives in Scale, Irony, and Light,” The Boston Globe, 9/30/2009

• 2006 Koslow, Miller, Francine “Joe Wardwell,” Art Forum, November 2006, Issue XLV, no. 3 pp. 302-303