Josh Faught

2025 Stepping Stone Grantee

Bio

Josh Faught’s work uses pop cultural detritus, archival materials, and the vernacular of textiles to address the relationships between language, community, and the constructions of identity. Recent solo exhibitions include Sanctuary, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Look Across the Water into the Darkness, Look for the Fog, Wattis Institute, San Francisco; Both Things are True, Kendall Koppe, Glasgow; Mr. Kramer Builds His Dream House, Casa Loewe, London; Siyinqaba, US Embassy in Swaziland, Mbabane; BE BOLD for what you stand for, BE CAREFUL what you fall for, SFMoMA at the Neptune Society Columbarium, San Francisco; and Snacks, Supports, and Something to Rally Around, Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis. Faught has exhibited in group exhibitions at James Cohan Gallery, New York; Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles; Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Sadie Coles HQ, London; The New Museum, New York; ICA Boston; The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Oakville Galleries, Ontario; and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit. Faught is a Professor at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, and a recipient of a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Look Across the Water Into the Darkness, Look for the Fog, 2022Mixed Media installation against custom wallpaper, an abstraction appropriated from the derelict abandoned home of Liza MinelliVariableThe Wattis Institute for the Arts