Josh Brand

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Josh Brand (born 1980) is an artist who lives and works in New York. [1]

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Background

Brand was born in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, US in 1980. He undertook his BFA at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, graduating in 2002. [2]

He undertook his BFA and MFA in Fine Art at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago between 1971-1978.[ citation needed ] Brand had a darkroom in his family basement, and as a teenager he would experiment for hours with the chemistry of photography, later working as a professional printer. His process-based photographic ‘objects’ are often made as the result of a physically manipulated, completely camera-less procedure. [3] [4] [5]

Exhibitions

Brand's work has been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, [6] White Columns, New York, [7] Dallas Museum of Art, [8] the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, [9] the CEAAC (European Center for Contemporary Art Actions), Strasbourg, [10] the Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, [11] Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College, New York [12] and Drawing Room, London. [13] His work is included in the public collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Dallas Museum of Art, US. [14]

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  9. "Josh Brand Biography – Josh Brand on artnet". www.artnet.com.
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  11. http://www.emilyharveyfoundation.org/newyork/Pages/emilyharveyfoundation.html
  12. "exhibitions & events". ArtSlant.
  13. "Double Take". Drawing Room.
  14. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/528a0b52e4b016c0d8346859/t/5d2716470ddee20001e2c56e/1562842695399/Josh_Brand_CV_HS.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]