JOSHUA WARE

ARTIST BIO

Joshua Ware is an artist and writer who was born in Cleveland, OH. His artwork has shown both nationally and internationally with solo shows at Leon Gallery, Understudy, Platte Forum, and GEORGIA. He’s appeared in group shows at Arvada Center for the Arts, Redline Contemporary Art Center, Lakewood Cultural Center, and RULE among other galleries and art spaces. His public artworks have been displayed or are currently on-view around the state of Colorado in Denver, Colorado Springs, Breckenridge, Grand Junction, Palisade, Lakewood, Castle Rock, Longmont, as well as Farmington, New Mexico. Reproductions of his work have been used for covers of books, magazines, and featured in print and online journals. Ware earned his doctorate in English Literature and Creative Writing from University of Nebraska. He is the author of Homage to Homage to Homage to Creeley, Unwanted Invention / Vargtimmen, and several chapbooks. He regularly writes freelance art reviews and criticism, most recently for Southwest Contemporary, Entropy Magazine, Tilt West, and New Collection. With Sharifa Lafon, he co-hosts and curates an unnamed, D.I.Y., itinerant performance art series. He lives and works in Denver, CO. 

JOSHUA WARE

b. 1977, Cleveland, Ohio
Lives and works in Denver, CO

Education

2012 PhD, English Literature and Creative Writing—Poetry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
2006 MA, English Literature—Poetry, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO
2002 BS, Management Information Systems—Miami University, Oxford, OH
1999 BA, English Literature—Ohio University, Athens, OH

Public Artworks 

2024 A Series of Objects Inscribing Geologic & Human Time: Z1-Z6, C1-C3, H1, Denver, CO (permanent)

2024 3MRX 4EK, Douglas County Art Encounters, Castle Rock, CO
2023 3MRX 4EK, Art on the Move, Longmont, CO

2023 OBJKT4 NO1, Art in the Heart, Farmington, NM

2023 DETH LIGHGHT V: American Vernacular, Common Name Farm, Lafayette, CO (permanent)
2022 DETH LIGHGHT V: American Vernacular, Grand Junction, CO
2021 DETH LIGHGHT V: American Vernacular, Palisade, CO

2023 DETH LIGHGHT XXIX: CARMEN & THE TREES, Common Name Farm, Lafayette, CO (permanent)
2022 DETH LIGHGHT XXIX: CARMEN & THE TREES // Carmen Component, Colorado Springs, CO
2022 DETH LIGHGHT XXIX: CARMEN & THE TREES // The Trees Component, Common Name Farm, Lakewood, CO
2021 DETH LIGHGHT XXIX: CARMEN & THE TREES, BreckCreate, Breckenridge, CO

2022 DETH LIGHGHT XXXI: 4JAY, Auraria Campus, Denver, CO (permanent)

2020 - present DETH LIGHGHT VIII: 4 WAHDUR POMBS, Mestizo-Curtis Park, Denver, CO

2020 DETH LIGHGHT VI: for S&G, GEORGIA Art Space, Denver, CO

Residencies

2022 Pedantic Art Residency, Pittsburgh, PA
2021 BreckCreate Artist-in-Residence, Breckenridge, CO

Solo Exhibitions

2022 And You May Find Yourself Becoming Oblique in an Age of Mass Extinction, Leon Gallery, Denver, CO
2019 Each of us is several (with Suchitra Mattai), Platte Forum, Denver, CO
2018 Urban Aggregate (II), Understudy, Denver, CO
2018 Madness, Rack, and Honey, Leon Gallery and Wonder Bound, Westminster, CO
2017 Future Bodies, GEORGIA Art Space, Denver, CO
2017 sleek extras, & collaborative, Denver, CO

Group Exhibitions

2024 Arvada Center for the Arts, 32 Footprints, Arvada, CO
2024 Redline Gala Exhibtion, Redline Satellite Studios, Denver, CO
2023 TAD2, T-Shop, Denver, CO
2022 RedLine Gala Exhibition & Auction, RedLine ArtPark, Denver, CO
2022 back2school, Friend of a Friend, Denver, CO
2022 Right of Spring Break, Evans School, Denver, CO
2021 WILD WILD, True West Contemporary, Denver, CO
2020 DETH LIGHGHT IX: DNCE DNCE!!!, Leon Gallery’s Performance Art Month, Denver, CO
2020 Untitled: Entanglements, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2020 TrueWest Contemporary, Diary Block, Denver, CO
2019 KNOCKOUT, Diary Block, Denver, CO
2019 Accentuate the Aggregate, Lakewood Cultural Center, Lakewood, CO
2019 Was it worth it, RedLine, Denver, CO
2019 Text Me, Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop, Denver, CO
2019 Domestic Abstraction, Juice Box, Denver, CO
2018 Howl, Leon Gallery, Denver, CO
2018 Sex, Drugs, & Rock n Roll, Hey Hue, Denver, CO
2018 Artists for Immigrant Families, RMIAN, Denver, CO
2018 Lightest Gesture, Rule Gallery, Marfa TX
2016 Sub-Text, CounterPath, Aurora, CO
2016 Paperscapes, Naropa University, Boulder, CO
2016 The Collage Club, Scandinavian Collage Museum, Berkåk, Norway
2016 CutPaste 3, F+ Gallery, Santa Ana, CA

Curated Exhibitions

2023 Evans School Event Series (monthly, performance art series co-curated with Sharifa Lafone)
2020 Untitled: Entanglements, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2019 Urban Aggregate (II), Understudy, Denver, CO
2018 Urban Aggregate (I), GEORGIA Art Space, Denver, CO

Visual Art in Selected Magazines, Journals, and Books

2018 Caroline Cabrera’s Saint X, Black Lawrence Press (cover)
2018 Denver Quarterly, University of Denver (cover)
2017 Serena Chopra’s IC, Horse Less Press, (cover)
2016 TREE / FiNGER // BiRD / ACHE, Visible Binary, ((0))
2016 Inscape I, Inscape II, Instress, Lovescape, The Volta, 61
2015 Insect Psyche and Insect Poetics, The Volta, 59
2015 The Normal School (8.2), California State University Fresno, Fresno, CA (cover and insets)
2014 Four Collages, Word for/ Word, 24
2011 Two Collages, Catch Up, 1

Selected Press and Interviews

2022 “An optimistic and purposely unpretentious show questions the very function of art,” Ray Rinaldi, Denver Post
2018 100 Colorado Creative 4.0, Westword
2016 Trey Moody with Joshua Ware, The Conversant
2015 My Hunger is Singular, Ghost Ocean, 17
2012 highly contrived and stylized, Open Letters Monthly