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Joshua Haycraft
b. 1979, Thief River Falls, Minnesota. Lives + works in Los Angeles, California

Joshua Haycraft is multidisciplinary artist fascinated by the aesthetics of science fiction.  Through the production of objects, videos, and interactive installations he explores the technological sublime and the systems that create and control it – bundling it all under the ambiguous acronym BHBITB.

education
2009 MFA / Interdisciplinary Art / Maryland Institute College of Art: Mount Royal School of Art / Baltimore MD
2004 BFA / Industrial Design Concentration / University of Wisconsin-Stout / Menomonie WI
2003 International Design Exchange / University of Singapore / Singapore

residencies + fellowships
2017 Bemis Center for Contemporary Art / Omaha NE
2014 Hamiltonian Fellowship Program / Washington DC
2013 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture / Skowhegan ME
2009 Vermont Studio Center / Full Fellowship / Johnson VT

exhibition record (solo shows noted by *)

2018
object/icon*. Industry Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (sculpture)
Planned Obsolescence*. Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA (sculpture and video)

2017
Pantone PDC. Industry Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (sculpture)
Open Studios. Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE (sculpture and drawing)

2016
Satellite Art Fair:  Hamiltonian Gallery. Parisian Hotel, Miami, FL (sculpture)

2015
Aqua Art Miami-Hamiltonian Gallery. Aqua Hotel, Miami FL
Communicate Silently. Industry Gallery, Los Angeles CA

2014
Hybridity: The New Frontier. 21C Museum. Cincinnati OH
Aqua Art Miami-Hamiltonian Gallery. Aqua Hotel. Miami FL
Transmodern Performance Festival. 14K Cabaret, Baltimore MD
Fellows Converge. Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington DC
Sondheim Semi-Finalist Exhibition. MICA, Baltimore MD
20XX: Future Guaranteed*. Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington DC

2013
Aqua Art Miami-Hamiltonian Gallery. Aqua Hotel. Miami FL
Terraform. Mid‐America Arts Alliance Headquarters, Kansas City MO
Feed Biennial Exhibition. 1708 Gallery, Richmond VA
New Now. Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington DC
BHBITB: Interaction Station. Brown Skowhegan ME
BHBITB: Transpositions*. University of Farmington ME
Sondheim Semi-Finalist Exhibition. MICA, Baltimore MD

2012
Circus Terminal: Traveling Exhibition. Tabernacle, Notting Hill-London UK, Impaktes Visuals Gallery, Sabadell-Barcelona Spain, Chateau Corbin, Liverdun France, Mandalay Hill Resort Hotel, Mandalay Myanmar
LUX: Juried Invitational Exhibition. Maryland Art Place, Baltimore MD
Sondheim Semi-Finalist Exhibition. MICA, Baltimore MD

2011
Meditations 1. Mirkwood Estates, Baltimore MD
The End of an Era*. School 33, Baltimore MD
“What to Dip”. University of Chiang Mai, Thailand
C.A.R.T. Current Space, Baltimore MD
East Coast Video: Baltimore. Flux Space / Co-curator, Philadelphia PA
Out of Order. Maryland Art Place, Baltimore MD
BHBITB: Presentations. McDaniel College, Westminster MD
Habitations. Virtual Public Art Project @ Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, Philadelphia PA

2010
Copy 09 at Copy 09 Gallery. London England
Desperate Times. The Sub-Basement, Baltimore MD
Apocalypse Food. T. A. G., University of Western Florida
Contact: A Period of Young Artists Crossover. Special Art Zone lll Space, Tainan, Taiwan

2009
Long Day/Short Night Film Festival. Alameda CA
Videopolis Film Festival. Metro Gallery, Baltimore MD
BHBITB: Originations*. Fox 3 Gallery, Baltimore MD

2008
Long Day/Short Night Film Festival. Alameda CA
Holiday Extravaganza. Fox 3 Gallery, Baltimore MD
First Year Graduate Exhibition. Pinkard Gallery, Baltimore MD

2007
Mount Royal Group Show. Fox 3 Gallery, Baltimore MD
A Vague Spatial Area. 500 Gallery, Baltimore MD
Level Art Collective. Gallery 13, Minneapolis MN
Art-a-Whirl. Northrup King Studios, Minneapolis MN

2006
Art Attack, Northrup King Studios, Minneapolis MN
Patio Nights. Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul MN
Ephemeral Space: Identify Me. juried exhibition, St. Paul MN
Art-a-Whirl. Northrup King Studios, Minneapolis MN

2005
Art Attack. Northrup King Studios, Minneapolis MN
Blitzkrieg at The Independent. The Independent Minneapolis MN

awards + grants

2016
Semi-Finalist, The Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize, Baltimore, MD

2014
Semi-Finalist, The Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize, Baltimore, MD

2013
Gallery 1708 Juried Biennial, Richmond VA
Scholarship to Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Hamiltonian Artists Fellowship, Hamiltonian Artists, Washington, DC
Semi-Finalist, The Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize, Baltimore, MD

2012
Semi-Finalist, The Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize, Baltimore, MD

2009
Fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center
Scholarship to Maryland Institute College of Art

visiting artist lectures and workshops

2017 University of Nebraska-Omaha: Fine Art department
2013 William Paterson University: Fine Art department
2012 University of Maine – Farmington: Fine Art department
2011 Maryland Institute College of Art: 2012 Fine Artist alumni panel
2011 McDaniel College: Fine Art department
2011 Maryland Institute College of Art: collage and assemblage class
2011 Maryland Institute College of Art: motion design class
2011 Maryland Institute College of Art: motion design class
2010 Maryland Institute College of Art: graduate workshop

press + publications

2016
Implementations. Postmedieval: a Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies. Palgrave Macmillan

2014
Perry Stein “A Look at the D.C. Galleries and Artists at Miami’s Aqua Art Fair”, Washington City Paper
Farley, W. Kimball, C. Kirsch, “We Went to Baltimore: The Sondheim Semi-Finalist Exhibition”, ArtFCity.com
Baynard Woods, “Profusion Not Confusion”, Baltimore City paper
Benjamin Andrew & Ian MacLean Davis, “Technologically Disposed”, bmoreart.com

2013
Mark Jenkins, “Gallery Shows: ‘new. (now). 2013”, The Washington Post
Kriston Capps, “Hamiltonian’s newest fellows aren’t all satisfied with just ‘good’”, Washington CityPaper

2011
Review of What to Dip, Art 4D Thailand (Magazine)
BHBITB: The End of an Era included on BmoreArt Blog

2010
Doreen Bolger, Review of Desperate Times, Charm City Current

2007
“All Together Now”, Metro Magazine, Elizabeth Millard