Josh Cloud (b. San Diego CA ) is a multimedia artist and educator based in LA. In 2021 Josh received a BFA from CalArts in experimental animation and art. He creates playful, emotive sculptures centered around cartoonish self-portraits that investigate identity, queerness, and intimacy. Emerging from his sketchbook, his forms are inflated into soft, exaggerated sculptures that challenge traditional notions of masculinity by celebrating openness as strength. His sculptures process historical, generational, and personal hardships while simultaneously embracing the absurdity of life. Many of his works include multiple material prossesses and possess an aged aesthetic quality, existing somewhere between art object and artifact.
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B. 1999 El Cajon, CA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Education
2021 BFA Interschool, Art & Experimental Animation, California Institute of the Arts
Residencies
2023 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Bearing, Schlomer Haus Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2023 Cambium, South Willard, Los Angeles, CA
2022 The Only Way Out is Through, South Willard, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibitions
2025 A Sense of Place, Abri Mars, New York City, NY
2024 Drawing Room, Vardan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024 The Gift of Strawberries, South Willard, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Re Orientation of the Earth, LA Beast, Los Angeles, CA
2023 South Willard, Gordon Robichaux, New York City, NY
2023 This Archipelago, Los Angeles City College VAMA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Barro Barrio, Guerrero Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023 People Places Things, Good Mother Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Céramique, Aparador LA, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Folk Medic ii: Panace, Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Affection Artifacts, Coaxial, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Hand To Machine, The Reef, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Terra Firma Foreign Lands, Murmurs, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Dissolving Sights ii, Automata, Los Angeles, CA
Fairs
2026, Felix, Los Angeles, Megan Mulrooney
2025, NADA, Miami, Megan Mulrooney
2025 EXPO, Chicago, Megan Mulrooney
2024 NADA, NYC, LA Beast
Collections
2025 Marc & Livia Straus, New York
2025 Collection of David Chaimovitz, Chicago, IL
2025 Susan Mendelsohn, Park City, Utah
2024 Guy Laliberté, Quebec City, Canada
Publications
2023 LA Times, This new gallery in L.A. is forging connections between Bay Area and SoCal artists