JOSEPH DESLER COSTA

lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Pisa, Italy

EDUCATION

MFA Advanced Photographic Studies | ICP Bard College, New York, NY

CTF Film | Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television, San Antonio de Los Banos, CUBA

BA English | University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2019 Dreamweaver, with Daniel Handal, ClampArt @ Pulse Art Fair, Miami, FL

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 Project Space, Jersey City, NJ

2015 Supplemental Materials, ICP Studio Gallery, LIC, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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 New York Art Book Fair with Printed Matter, PS1, New York, 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

2013 New York Art Book Fair with Printed Matter, PS1, 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 Collection

SELECTED PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS

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

HabHouse AIR Program, Los Angeles, 2018

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

2018 - Present, School of Visual Arts, New York - Adjunct Faculty - BFA Photography and Video

2018 - Present, International Center of Photography, NY - Visiting Professor - Creative Practices Program

GUEST LECTURES

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

SELECTED EDITORIAL

• Flash Art • The New York Times • Vogue • Newsweek • Anthem Magazine • XLR8R •

• Rolling Stone • Chicago Tribune Co • Time Out • Stop Smiling • Craine Communication •

• Fibra Revista • Big Magazine • Chicago Reader • A Casa Abitare •

SELECTED COMMISION

• AON • Honda Motors • Volkswagen • The Warranty Group • Citigroup • Telefonica Espagna •

• Lexus • Enterprise • 4Content Media Group • Florense • Powerade • Salon 94 • Adidas

• The Democratic National Committee • Spinning • ProRaso • Armazem Design • Garmin