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If Joshua Hart’s work is a series of echo-locations to the statement “here I am,” then the questions his work must address are “who is?”, “where is here?”, and “can that even be communicated?”

Joshua is a sculptor and a drawer whose primary subject is himself in the act of making. This introspective project needs mixed materials for their different affect or valence to express discrete moments of his own body’s sense of itself in its specificity. Proprioception guides his sculptural decisions. In the effort to reach across to you and get you to also take those same postures and notice how they feel, he works momentary, even fleeting, bodily sensations into a material object of heft, and craft, and improbably sustained attention.

Joshua is a first-generation college graduate, and a first-generation artist, who grew up on a farm where arting wasn’t practiced, but where making was, everywhere every day. He was raised by tradesfolk, and always has the question: what is the sensibility, the respect, and care that tradespeople bring to the materials of their work? Can sculptural work also honor the place materials have in intimate relationship to human need, human ingenuity, and, especially, human hands?

Industry Experience

Exhibitions

• 2018 – “What About a Self Portrait?” The Cost Annex, Boston MA
• 2018 – “Boston Does Boston XI” Proof Gallery, Boston, MA

Awards & Recognitions

• 2009 – Derek Bok Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education, Harvard University

Professional Affiliations

• CAA F.A.T.E.

Connect

• joshuahart.com
• Instagram: @joshuanathanhart