JOSHUA EDWARD BENNETT
gallery premiere
June 3 – July 17, 2021
Pull Quote
Joshua Edward Bennett’s unique and bold fabricated objects are born out of a personal longing to assign a visual and spatial aesthetic to existential imaginations surrounding his own sense of spirituality.
Biography
JOSHUA EDWARD BENNET lives and works in New Orleans, LA. He received his MFA from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA in 2019 with a concentration in digital arts. Bennett received his BFA with a concentration in painting and drawing in 2006 at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, TN.
He has exhibited work in solo exhibitions at Good Children Gallery in New Orleans, LA, and has forthcoming solo exhibitions scheduled for next year at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans, LA, at Voss Gallery in San Francisco, CA, and at Deep Space Gallery in Jersey City, NJ. His participation in numerous two-person and group exhibitions include Living Easy Where The Sun Doesn't Shine at BS Projects in Houston, TX, Sun Shines at Central Park Gallery in Los Angeles, CA in 2019, RE:TELL at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center during their biennial in 2016 in Atlanta, GA, Nomadic Habitat (Hustleman), a group collaboration with Carlos Rolón at the New Orleans Museum of Art in New Orleans, LA in 2018, Jonald Dudd 2019 for NYC Design Week in New York City, NY in 2019, and Love Triangle at Deep Space Gallery in Jersey City, NJ also in 2019.
Bennett has been a contributing member of the artist-run space named Good Children Gallery since 2015.
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
2019 MFA, Digital Arts, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2006 BFA, Painting and Drawing. University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2021 Title TBD, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana (Forthcoming).
Title TBD, Voss Gallery, San Francisco, California (Forthcoming).
Title TBD, Deep Space Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey (Forthcoming).
2019 OAZO, Alone Time Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
Sun Shines, Central Park Gallery, Los Angeles California.
OAZO, MFA Thesis Show, Carroll Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2016 OAZO, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2015 CENIZTANOS , Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Living Easy Where the Sun Doesn’t Shine, BS Projects, Houston, Texas
2019 The Gigantic Miniature Show, Deep Space Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey.
Good Bite: Good Children Gallery Group Show, NAPOLEON, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Mentors: Tulane Faculty Group Show, Carroll Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Love Triangle, Deep Space Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey.
Summer Solstice, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana.
JONALDJUDD: NYC Design Week, New York City, New York.
Response 2019: Artists in the Park, New Orleans Botanical Garden, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2018 Decade of Good: 10th Anniversary Group Show, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Nomadic Habitat (Hustleman): Good Children Gallery collaboration with Carlos Rolón, New Orleans
Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2017 Logos, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Transfix, curated by Joshua Edward Bennett, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2016 RE:TELL, curated by Ashley Teamer, Atlanta Biennial, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta,
Georgia.
Salon, curated by Ryan Sartin, Wonderland, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Good Vibes, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Rendre, The Front Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, (Collaboration with Imen Djouini).
Donuts & Daiquiris, The Front Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana.
ART + PLACE: New Orleans Arts Council Direct Purchase, New Orleans, Louisiana.
