Josh Tonsfeldt
Born in 1979 in Independence, Missouri. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.


Solo Exhibitions
2010
4: Cat - Cos, Franco Soffiantino Gallery, Turin

2008
Physician's Horse Vanishes, Simon Preston Gallery, New York, NY


Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings
2010
The same sight slighter, Renwick Gallery, New York
Le Faux Miroir, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium (curated by Bob Nickas)
Gold in Braddock, UnSmoke Artspace, Braddock, Pennsylvania (curated by Elise Adibi)

2009
Almost, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Lance Goldsmith)
Abstraction and Materialist Praxis in Contemporary Photography, Guinea Kunstraum Hoey-Wasow, Rhinebeck, NY
One Minute More, The Kitchen, New York, NY (curated by Matthew Lyons and Debra Singer)
Phot(o)bjects, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., Canada (curated by Bob Nickas)

2008
Controversies of the Common Experience, SOIL, Seattle, Washington (Curated by Vesna Pavlovic);
Object Salon, White Space Gallery, London, UK (curated by Thomas Beale);
Hermann's Grid, Galleria Franco Soffiantino, Turin, Italy (Curated by Gareth James);
Fat Head Balloon Self-Portrait / Excercising for Excorsizing (Mein Doppelganger) / My Lights (Kokopelli)
/ C3PO, Simon Preston Gallery, New York, NY;
Idiolects, Brown, London, UK (Curated by Lumi Tan);
Evas Arche und Der Feminist Number 15, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY;
Object Salon, Honey Space, New York, NY (Curated by Bob Nickas);
CRG Open Video Series, CRG Gallery, New York, NY;
If I told you you were beautiful, would you date me on the regular?, Oliver Kamm Gallery, New York, NY;
Eleven Sessions, Orchard, New York, NY (with Bob Nickas);
Nina in Position, Artists Space, New York, NY (Curated by Jeffrey Uslip);
Squaring the Circle, Suite 405, Brooklyn, NY;

2007
Whyandwherefore: Beginnings, Online exhibition: www.whyandwherefore.com;
The Kitchen's Benefit Art Auction, The Kitchen, New York, NY;
Inter-Faces, Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan;
Columbia University MFA Thesis Exhibition, Christie's, New York, NY;

2006
Columbia University First Year Exhibition, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Gallery, New York, NY;


Bibliography

2009
Hackett, Regina, Phot(o)bjects Lawrimore Project, Another Bouncing Ball, July 15, 2009
Miller, John, Fun Gallery, Grey Room, Spring 2009
NADA Emerging Artist Page, The L Magazine, February 4 - 17, 2009
Coburn, Tyler, Review: Physician's Horse Vanishes, Art Review, January 2009;

2008
Herman's Grid, by Gareth James, Juliet, December 2008 - January 2009
Cotter, Holland, Lower East Side: Art Shoehorned Amid Charm, New York Times, November 13, 2008;
Cole, Lori, Nina In Position, "Critic's Picks", Artforum.com, February 2008;
Cotter, Holland, Nina In Position, Review, New York Times, February 15 2008;
Uslip, Jeffrey, Nina In Position, Exhibition Catalogue, Artists Space, January 2008;

2007
Pribac, Mirela, Inter-Faces, Review, Flash Art International, November - December 2007.


Education

2007
MFA, Columbia University, New York, NY;

2004
BA, Purchase College, Purchase, NY.