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JOSEPH DESLER COSTA
lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Pisa, Italy
EDUCATION
MFA ICP Bard College, New York, NY
CTF Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television, San Antonio de Los Banos, CUBA
BA University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Soft Powers, ClampArt, New York, NY - FORTHCOMING
2020 Dream Date, ClampArt, New York, NY
2017 Particle Paradise, Foley Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Mods, Breaks, Tapes, Volta NY, Pier 90, New York, NY
2015 Extreme Learning Machine, Foley Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Appetite4Destruction, Book Dummy Press at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2015 Supplemental Materials, ICP Studio Gallery, LIC, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 The Violent Sequence, Metronom Gallery, Modena, Italy
2020 Across the Universe, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Photo LA, Los Angeles, CA
2020 The Drowned curated by Aaron Lee Garvi, Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, AL
2020 Silver Eye Benefit Auction, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA
2020 Picto 🖤 The Bowery Mission Benefit, New York, NY
2020 All Together Now; Starting From Scratch, Top Cat, New York, NY
2019 Joseph Desler Costa & Daniel Handal, ClampArt @ Pulse Art Fair, Miami, FL
2019 Spots & Loops, Silent Face Projects @ NYABF, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
2019 Another Day in Paradise, The In-Between, Gravy Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Panoramica, Printed Matter LAABF, The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2018 There is No Threat, 145 Chambers St., New York, NY
2018 PGH Photo, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
2018 Panoramica, ICP Museum Bowery - Book Invitational, New York, NY
2018 Midsummer Survey, Foley Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Artists for Puerto Rico Benefit, Bronx Documentary Center, Bronx, NY
2017 Them! Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH
2017 Thread Count, Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam, NL
2017 The Art of Now, The Hearst Galleries, New York, NY
2017 CCNY Benefit curated by Wendy Vogel and Janice Guy, Baxter St. Camera Club of New York
2017 On Beauty, Humble Arts Foundation, New York, NY
2017 PGH Photo, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
2016 Photography is Magic, curated by Charlotte Cotton, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
2016 High Summer, Foley Gallery, New York, NY
2016 ICP Spotlights, Park Ave Galleries, New York, NY
2016 23rd Watermill Center Benefit, The Watermill Center, Water Mill, NY
2016 The Photography Show - AIPAD, Park Ave Armory, New York, NY
2016 The Future Perfect, International Center of Photography Hillman Gallery, New York, NY
2016 #HAFLIFEZ, Humble Arts Foundation, New York, NY
2016 The Future Perfect, Photoville, Brooklyn, NY
2016 PGH Photo, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
2016 Black is the New Black, Foley Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Expanded Geographies, Lianzhou Foto Festival, Lianzhou, CHINA
2015 The Future is Forever, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2015 Baxter Street CCNY Benefit Auction, Affirmation Arts, NY
2015 Advanced Master Remix, Baxter St. Camera Club of New York, NY
2015 Radical Color, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR
2015 Annual Juried Exhibition, by Marvin Heiferman, Baxter St. Camera Club of New York
2015 This One's For You, Rita K. Hillman Education Gallery, ICP, New York, NY
2015 Arte Laguna, Arsenale di Venezia, Venice, ITALY
2014 Relationships, International Center of Photography, LIC Studios, New York, NY
2014 Together, Vols Arts, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Call+Response+Response, Photoville, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Feast Day, International Center of Photography, LIC Studios, New York, NY
2014 Slidefest, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
2013 Open, International Center of Photography, LIC Studios, New York, NY
2008 Eye Hear, Sala de Arte Moderna(SAM), Santiago, CHILE
COLLECTIONS
Leonard Lauder - Estee Lauder Collection, New York, NY
BNY Mellon Collection of Art, New York, NY
Cleveland Clinic Art Collection, Cleveland, OH
Self Publish Be Happy Library, London, UK
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
The Bidwell Collection, Cleveland, OH
The Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Credit Suisse Art Collection
The Rockaway Hotel Collection, New York, NY
PRESS, PUBLICATIONS AND POSTS
PHROOM, Dream Date, December 2020
Generazione Critica: Teorie e pratiche nell'arte del Duemila, The Violent Sequence, December 2020
La Voce Di New York, Il passagio da una vita a un'altra, October 2020
Musee Magazine, Dream Date Exhibition Review, May 2020
Design Arts Daily, The DART Board: Dream Date, May 2020
Dear Dave, Interview with Joseph Desler Costa, April 2020
In The In-Between Journal, Desire on Demand: A Conversation with Joseph Desler Costa, April 2020
Humble Arts Foundation, A Letter to the Editors: Art in the time of COVID-19, April 2020
Artforum, Postponed Exhibitions Around the Globe Initiative, April 2020
Photograph Magazine, Dream Date, April 2020
Artsy, Dream Date Online Exhibition, April 2020
Explora Blog, Inspiration to Process: Joseph Desler Costa, March 2020
Provokr, Dream Date, March 2020
Self Publish Be Happy, Panoramica, March 2018
Der Grief, Thread Count, September 2017
Collector Daily, Particle Paradise - Review, April 2017
Humble Arts Foundation, Repackaging Commercialism, Slaying the Sublime, March 2017
The Latent Image, curated by Max Marshall, March 2017
Humble Arts Foundation, On Beauty, September 2017
Bedford + Bowery, Particle Paradise , March 2017
Oxford American, Issue 95, Winter 2016, December 2016
American Photo, High Summer, July 2016
Aperture, Is There Ever a Decisive Moment?, July 2016
Blouin Art Info, 5 Must See Booths at AIPAD 2016, April 2016
Der Grief Guest Room, Robert Morat, January 2016
New York Times T Magazine, The Actual Art of Learning , October 2015
Musee Magazine, Extreme Learning Machine, June 2015
Der Grief Guest Room, Kim Knoppers - Foam Museum, June 2015
Baxter St. Camera Club of New York Blog, Auto-Tuned Photographs , May 2015
Huffington Post, Meet the Contemporary Photographers Experimenting with Radical Color, May 2015
Humble Arts Foundation, Blog, Six Promising Photographers, June 2015
VICE The Creators Project,Visual Experiments Show Us The Future of Photography, June 2015
Catalogo Premio Arte Laguna, 2015
Humble Arts Foundation, Radical Color, January 2015
The Berlin Agenda, Its All Around You, December 2014
Self Publish, Be Happy, Self Publish, Be Naughty, October 2014
Musee Magazine, Emerging Artists, Temptation Issue 9, June 2014
This Photo That, February 2011
Make Magazine, February/March 2011
AfterImage VSW Journal,You are Never Alone, September 2010
Contributor Magazine, March 2010
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2019 Spots & Loops, Silent Face Projects @ NYABF, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
2016 High Summer, Foley Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Advanced Master Remix, CCNY BAXTER St, New York, NY
2015 Queen, Silent Face Projects
BOOKS AND ZINES
Panoramica, Silent Face Projects, 2017
American ABCD, Paripé Books, 2017
Dedications_Calibrations, Silent Face Projects, 2014
HONORS AND RESIDENCIES
PDN Photo Annual 2017 Award Winner
Camera Club of New York, Annual Juried Competition, Winner, 2015
Premio Arte Laguna, Finalist in Photography, 2015
Campo Brondi Italy, Artist in Residence, August 2015
Director's Fellowship, International Center of Photography, 2013
Graphis Award, Best Photography, 2011
40th SPD Publication Design Annual, Gold Photo Award, 2005
FACULTY
School of Visual Arts, New York - Adjunct Faculty - BFA Photography and Video
The International Center of Photography, NY - Adjunct Faculty - Creative Practices Program
GUEST LECTURES
2020 ClampArt, New York, NY - Dream Date Virtual Tour and Discussion with Allen Frame
2018 School of Visual Arts, New York - Guest Lecturer
2017 International Center of Photography, New York - Teen Academy - Guest Lecturer
2016 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn - Photo MFA - Guest Lecturer
EDITORIAL AND COMMISSIONS
• Rolling Stone • The New York Times • Vogue • Newsweek • Garmin
• Abitare Magazine • Chicago Tribune • Time Out • Craine Communication •
• Flash Art • Big Mag • Chicago Reader • AON • Honda Motors • Volkswagen •
• The Warranty Group • Citigroup • Telefonica Espagna • Lexus • Enterprise •
• Assurant • Florense • Powerade • Salon 94 • Adidas • Spinning • Marvis •
• The Democratic National Committee • Spinning • ProRaso • Armazem Design •