Art & Culture Talks (ACT) Program: Lecture by Joshua Mosley

Joshua Mosley employs a combination of hand-drawn, computer-generated, and stop-motion techniques to investigate philosophical topics that emerge from everyday situations. He is a professor in, and chair of, the Department of Fine Arts in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his M.F.A. and B.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Mosley is a recipient of the Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship. His work has been exhibited and screened at the 2007 Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy; the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Fort Worth, Texas; the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, Switzerland; the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois; the Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain; the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the SITE Santa Fe Eighth International Biennial in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in San Diego, California.