Joshua Bienko

Joshua Bienko graduated from the University at Buffalo in 2000 with a BFA, and  from the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia with an MFA in 2008. He is a Hambidge Residency Fellow and is currently shortlisted for the International Artist in Residency at Artpace in San Antonio, Texas. He was the 2009 Tanne Foundation Award recipient and was awarded the Academy of Visual and Performing Arts Grant from Texas A&M University in 2010. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in cities including Kansas City, Houston, San Antonio, Chapel Hill, at kiosks in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Berlin, Bilbao, and Venice (in collaboration with theYouTube Play Biennial), Philadelphia, Sydney, Miami, London, and Atlanta. Recently, his work was screened on the outdoor Super Screens at the American Airlines Center (home of the Dallas Mavericks) as part of the LOS AMERICANOS exhibition at the Dallas Contemporary, curated by Peter Doroshenko. Themes in his work involve the formation of Guantanamo Bay (Allusion, Illusion, Elusion), Lacanian mathemes, desire and its function (LeCon), the many forms of slavery and oppression (Clean Pair), our role in celebrity culture (Goldilocks), and the power of the uselessness of art (Ever So Much More So). His current work is a meditation on basketball, "World Peace," and sneakers.

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