Josh Mannis

MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Josh Mannis is represented by Thomas Solomon Gallery in Los Angeles. His exhibition record includes The Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art in Pittsburgh, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal, Québec, the Tate Modern in London, and solo and group exhibitions at contemporary art galleries in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Portland OR, Boston, Mexico City, Vancouver and Berlin.

"Students often enter seeing a great distance between what they want, and the means to get there. The studio can be used not only as a training environment to cultivate technical skill and critical thinking, but as a tool to blur the very difference between technique and critical thought. The goal is to use the ongoing practice and exercise of the mental and physical space of the studio, to cultivate intellectual immediacy, to shorten the distance between the intention and the execution, and ultimately, to empower students to take ownership over their own creativity."