JOSEPH DESLER COSTA

lives and works in Milan, Italy and Brooklyn, NY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021--Soft Powers, Clamp, New York, NY

The Violent Sequence, Metronom Gallery, Modena, Italy

2020--Dream Date, Clamp, 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

Appetite4Destruction, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ

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

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 KCTL Benefit Auction, New York, NY

2022 Under the Sun and Moon, Humble Arts Foundation, New York, NY

The Photography Show - AIPAD, Center415, New York, NY

2021 The Drowned curated by Aaron Lee Garvi, Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, AL

2020 Across the Universe, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

---------Photo LA, Los Angeles, CA

---------2021The Drowned curated by Aaron Lee Garvi, Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, AL

---------Silver Eye Benefit Auction, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA

---------Picto 🖤 The Bowery Mission Benefit, New York, NY

---------All Together Now; Starting From Scratch, Top Cat, New York, NY

2019 Pulse Art Fair, Indian Beach, Miami, FL

---------Spots & Loops, Silent Face Projects @ NYABF, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY

---------Another Day in Paradise, The In-Between, Gravy Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

---------Panoramica, Printed Matter LAABF, The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA

2018 There is No Threat, 145 Chambers St., New York, NY

--------- PGH Photo, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

--------- Panoramica, ICP Museum Bowery - Book Invitational, New York, NY

------- --Midsummer Survey, Foley Gallery, New York, NY

Artists for Puerto Rico Benefit, Bronx Documentary Center, Bronx, NY

2017 Them! Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH

---------Thread Count, Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam, NL

---------The Art of Now, The Hearst Galleries, New York, NY

---------CCNY Benefit curated by Wendy Vogel and Janice Guy, Baxter St. Camera Club of New York

---------On Beauty, Humble Arts Foundation, New York, NY

---------PGH Photo, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

---------2016 Photography is Magic, curated by Charlotte Cotton, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY

---------High Summer, Foley Gallery, New York, NY

---------ICP Spotlights, Park Ave Galleries, New York, NY

---------23rd Watermill Center Benefit, The Watermill Center, Water Mill, NY

---------The Photography Show - AIPAD, Park Ave Armory, New York, NY

---------The Future Perfect, International Center of Photography Hillman Gallery, New York, NY

---------#HAFLIFEZ, Humble Arts Foundation, New York, NY

---------The Future Perfect, Photoville, Brooklyn, NY

---------PGH Photo, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

---------Black is the New Black, Foley Gallery, New York, NY

2015--Expanded Geographies, Lianzhou Foto Festival, Lianzhou, CHINA

---------The Future is Forever, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ

---------Baxter Street CCNY Benefit Auction, Affirmation Arts, NY

---------Advanced Master Remix, Baxter St. Camera Club of New York, NY

---------Radical Color, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR

---------Annual Juried Exhibition, by Marvin Heiferman, Baxter St. Camera Club of New York

---------This One's For You, Rita K. Hillman Education Gallery, ICP, New York, NY

---------Arte Laguna, Arsenale di Venezia, Venice, ITALY

2014--Relationships, International Center of Photography, LIC Studios, New York, NY

---------Together, Vols Arts, Brooklyn, NY

---------Call+Response+Response, Photoville, Brooklyn, NY

---------Feast Day, International Center of Photography, LIC Studios, New York, NY

---------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

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

Say Yes, SPBH Editions, 2023

Panoramica, Silent Face Projects, 2017

American ABCD, Paripé Books, 2017

Dedications_Calibrations, Silent Face Projects, 2014

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

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

Director's Fellowship, International Center of Photography, 2013

Graphis Award, Best Photography, 2011

40th SPD Publication Design Annual, Gold Photo Award, 2005

EDUCATION

MFA- Bard College, New York, NY

CTF--Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión, San Antonio de Los Baños, CUBA

BFA--University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Instituto Europeo di Design, Milano. Faculty, Photography, Video and Design

Parsons The New School, NY. Faculty, Photography and Video

School of Visual Arts, NY. Faculty, Photography and Video

The International Center of Photography, NY. Faculty, Creative Practices Program

GUEST LECTURES

2022 i3 Lecture Series, School of Visual Arts, NY

2020--Dream Date Discussion with Allen Frame, ClampArt, NY

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

COMMISSIONS

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