Josh Sperling
Josh Sperling draws on the language of minimalist painting from the 1960s and 1970s, primarily working with shaped canvases. He crafts intricate plywood supports over which canvas is stretched and painted in a signature palette of saturated, sometimes clashing colors. In their three-dimensionality, his works blur the lines between painting and sculpture, image and object. Mining a wide range of sources, from design to art history, Sperling has crafted a unique visual vocabulary remarkable for its expressive quality and irrepressible energy.
Josh Sperling work has been the subject of numerous solo presentations including Perrotin, New York, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo and Seoul (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 ); Bill Brady, Miami in 2020, Sorry We're Closed, Brussels in 2018.
He is part of several public collection including; Arsenal Contemporary, Montreal, Canada, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France, Longlati Foundation, Hong Kong and SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, USA
Josh Sperling
Born in 1984 in Oneonta, New York, USA
Lives and works in Ithaca, New York, USA
Education
2006
BFA, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
My Pleasure, Sorry We're Closed, Brussels, Belgium
Daydream, Perrotin, New York, USA
2021
Frank Stella, Josh Sperling, curated by Matt Black, Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, Belgium
Spectrum, Perrotin, Hong Kong
2020
One Fell Swoop, Bill Brady Gallery, Miami, USA
Paradise, Perrotin, Shanghai, China
2019
So It Goes, Perrotin, Paris, France
Nevertheless, Sorry We're Closed, Brussels, Belgium
Summertime, Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan
Big Time, Perrotin, New York, USA
2018
Two Purple Tigers, Perrotin, Seoul, South Korea
Chasing Rainbows, Perrotin, Paris, France
2017
Man Child, Bill Brady Gallery, Miami, USA
2016
Strong Silent Type, Retrospective Gallery, Hudson, USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Beyond the Frame, Sorry We're Closed, Brussels, Belgium
2021
The Show Will Go On, Nassima Landau, Tel Aviv, Israel
Shapes, Alexander Berggruen, New York, USA
2020
SITE: Turkel House, Library Street Collective, Detroit, USA
2019
WildMetropolis, curated by Xu Zhen, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China
Chairs Beyong Right & Wrong, curated by Raquel Cayre, R & Company, New York, USA
2016
From the Cradle to the Grave, with Sam Friedman, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, USA
Your Favorite Artist's Favorite Artist, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, USA
NADA, Sorry We're Closed, Miami, USA