Joshua Schwebel

Joshua Schwebel is a Canadian conceptual artist currently based in Berlin. He received his MFA in Fine Arts from NASCAD University (2008) and his BFA in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts from Concordia University (2006). His work has been presented in recent solo exhibitions, such as From the Aesthetic of Administration at the Centrum Project Space (Berlin, 2017) ; Linings at the Tadeusz Kantor Foundation (Krakow, 2016) and Subsidy at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin, 2015). Schwebel also participated in numerous group exhibitions in Canadian and international venues. In 2017, Schwebel was recipient of the Art by Translation Fellowship, an international curatorial research program directed by Maud Jacquin and Sébastien Pluot. This led him to take part in the making of the exhibition The House of Dust of Alison Knowles, presented at the Darling Foundry (Montreal, 2017), at the CNEAI (Pantin, 2017) and at the James Gallery (New York, 2016). In 2015, he was resident artist of the Quebec Studio at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, and was twice laureate of the Darling Foundry’s Résidence Croisées France/Québec, in Paris (2011) and in Marseille (2014).

Biography

Based in Montreal, Canada, Schwebel received an MFA from NSCAD University (2008) and a BFA in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts from Concordia University (2006). He is the recipient of the Research/Creation grant from the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres de Québec.

Recent exhibitions

2014

[Caché] AKA Gallery (Saskatoon, SK) 

2013

[Caché] Artspace (Peterborough, ON) 

2012

Currencies independent project (Havana, Cuba)

Fonograph Galerie Sans Nom (Moncton, Canada)

Popularity  (Montréal, Canada)