Joseph Wilcox is an artist and filmmaker whose practice moves between image gathering, documentary, filmmaking, object-making, and organizing. His work examines how institutions, political systems, and social structures shape and restrict individual and collective autonomy. He has participated in residencies at the NARS Foundation, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, HATCH Projects at the Chicago Artists Coalition, and LATITUDE Chicago. His work has been exhibited and screened internationally at venues including Lydian Stater, Good Children Gallery, Chicago Artists Coalition, Slamdance Film Festival, Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Art Düsseldorf, and Hong-Gah Museum. Wilcox received his MFA from Lesley University College of Art and Design and his BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design. He lives and works in Brooklyn.
Nobody Wants to Fix Things Anymore, Digital Video / NFT, 4:05 minutes, 2023
Bench, Archival Inkjet Print, 20 x 24 inches, 2023
The Hammer and the Dance, Digital Video, 2:43 minutes, 2020
05-30-20, Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn (Burning NYPD Van), Toner on Paper, 80 x 100 inches, 2020
05/28/20, Union Square East & East 17th Street, Manhattan (Protester Resisting Arrest), Toner on Paper, 80 x 100 inches, 2020
Mood Board #3 (i don’t know who needs to hear this), Paint, toner on paper, plastic, painters tape, receipts, vinyl, cardboard, envelope on OSB, 32 x 48 inches, 2020
In Search of Martin Klein, Digital Video, 18:43 minutes, 2017
In Search of Martin Klein (installation view), 2017
EDUCATION
2012 MFA, Lesley University College of Art and Design, Cambridge, MA
2008 BFA, Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI
2005 Liberal Arts Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS
2025
Squirting Flowers, Beverlys, New York, NY
London Short Film Festival, Curzon Soho, London, England
2024
Les Instants Vidéo, Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
Onion City Film Festival, Firehouse Cinema, Chicago, IL
Slamdance Film Festival, Treasure Mountain Inn, Park City, UT
2023
A Private Viewing, Charmoli Ciarmoli, New York, NY
Flat Earth Film Festival, Austurvegur, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, Collectif Jeune Cinéma, Paris, France
moving images are still images, Heavy Manners Library, Los Angeles, CA
Festival Ecrã, Cinemateca do MAM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, Morgantown, WV
Anything I Can Do, You Can Do Better, Lydian Stater, Queens, NY
SHORT CUTS, Shed Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2022
Unhomely Alone, Hart Bar, Brooklyn, NY
In Good Company, Lydian Stater, Queens, NY
2021
Renaissance Protocol, Theaterlab, New York, NY
Group Show, SHRINE, New York, NY
2020
The Thing in Itself, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
What is (a) Punk?, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada
To Assemble, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2019
To Gather Together, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
2018
Special Exhibition of BLOOOM Award by WARSTEINER, Art Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
In Search of Martin Klein, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA (solo)
Offline Browser, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei City, Taiwan
Bideodromo Experimental Film and Video Festival, BilbaoArte, Bilbao, Spain
That One Film Festival, juried by Jon Derringer and Liz Rodda, PlySpace Gallery, Muncie, IN
Artificial Life, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
Surveillance Index, Le Bal, Paris, France
2017
social distortion, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
Context 2017, juried by Natasha Egan, Filter Photo, Chicago, IL
Hall Pass, The Rangefinder Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
2016
Experimental Film and Video Exhibition, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gimpo-si, South Korea
AWARDS & EXPERIENCE
2021
Artist-in-Residence, Governors Island Satellite Residency, NARS Foundation, New York, NY
2020
Artist-in-Residence, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2019
Artist-in-Residence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2018
1st Place, BLOOOM Award 2018 by Warsteiner, Cologne, Germany
Official Selection, Blowup Film Fest, Chicago, IL
Finalist, Bideodromo Experimental Film and Video Festival, BilbaoArte, Bilbao, Spain
Honorable Mention, Experimental Forum, Los Angeles, CA
Honorable Mention, LA Underground Film Forum, Los Angeles, CA
Juried Winner, That One Film Festival, Muncie, IN
HATCH Projects Resident, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
2017
Artist-in-Residence, LATITUDE, Chicago, IL
PRESS
Discorder Magazine, 2020
Westdeutsche Zeitung, 2018
The Dorf, 2018
WEBSITE: www.joseph-wilcox.com