Josh Atlas was born in 1983 and raised in Teaneck, New Jersey. He attended Carnegie Mellon University, where he focused on performance and video art. Since that time, he has focused on integrating comedy and art. Atlas' practice has grown to include drawing and photography to explore the funnier sides of desire. He has exhibited at HiChristina (Brooklyn), MonkeyTown (Brooklyn), and NTBA Gallery (Los Angeles) and participated in benefit auctions for Equality California and the Red Cross. Josh Atlas lives and works in Los Angeles.
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
BFA in Fine Arts, 2005. Concentration in Electronic/Time-Based Media
Residencies
2010
Wassaic Project - Wassaic, NY
Group Exhibitions
2010
Arte Portugal 10: California Dreaming - Various Locations, Portugal
Wassaic Project Festival - Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
Artwork in My Living Room II - Alex Couri, Los Angeles, CA
Pulp Fictions - Ferenbalm-Gubrue Station, Karlsruhe, Germany
NTBA - NTBA, Los Angeles, CA
Art for Haiti Benefit Auction - The Mandrake, Los Angeles, CA (co-curated with Alex Couri)
Equality California Benefit Auction - Culy Warehouse, San Diego, CA
2008
Encyclopedia Destructica: NY - Encyclopedia Destructica Studios, Pittsburgh, PA
2006
Jabberwocky vs. Dada - Artists Upstairs, Pittsburgh, PA
Men are So! - Imeo Gallery at Berkley Arts Center, Denver, CO
100% Centennial - Regina G. Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2005
Toy - Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Media Tonic II - Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA
Spectacular, Spectacular - Regina G. Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2004
softWorks - Future Tenant, Pittsburgh, PA
Performances
Ongoing
Don't Smell the Floss Book Tour (with Matty Byloos) - Various locations, including Skylight Books (Los Angeles, CA), Literary Death Match (San Francisco, CA), and Open Bookstore (Long Beach, CA)
2009
Baby's Mama - HiChristina, Brooklyn, NY
2007
The Kissing Distance - Glasslands, Brooklyn, NY
2005
Love Machine - The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Skills - Ellis Gallery at Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Bigger AND Better - The FRAME at Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Festivals and Screenings
2007
Filmideo - Red Saw Gallery, Newark, NJ
Encyclopedia Destructica: Volume Bumba - Brillobox, Pittsburgh, PA
Semiennial - Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY
Flux 15 - Pittsburgh, PA
Semiennial II - Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY
To the Hills - Glasslands, Brooklyn, NY
2006
Simultan2 - Timisoara, Romania (catalogue produced)
PiXeLdaNce Thessaloniki, Greece
Public Work
2006
Art Investing in Ten Easy Steps - Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
2005
Community Splash - East Liberty, Pittsburgh, PA
2004
Art Santa - Various neighborhoods, Pittsburgh, PA
Gun Cozies - Various neighborhoods, Pittsburgh, PA
Curatorial
2010
The Forbidden Zone Featuring Christopher Kardambikis and Rick Baker. NTBA, Los Angeles, CA.
Art for Haiti Benefit Auction Co-organized with Alex Couri. The Mandrake, Los Angeles, CA.
2009
The Young Pretenders Traveling video program. Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY. Ferenbalm-Gubru Station, Karlsruhe, Germany. Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. Alpineum Produzentengalerie, Luzern, Switzerland. Zenshi, Tokyo, Japan.
Publications
2010
The Institute for Extra-Terrestrial Sexuality - ed. Suzie Silver. Encyclopedia Destructica
Past Simple Issue 8 - ed. Stacy Elaine Dacheux. (link.)
2009
The Flying Destructicate: Make Your Own Truth - ed. Jonathan Brodsky. Encyclopedia Destructica
2008
ED:NY - ed. Josh Atlas and Matteo Orsini. Encyclopedia Destructica
Bumba: The Fourth - ed. Christopher Kardambikis and Jasdeep Khaira. Encyclopedia Destructica