Application is open through May 31 for 2025 Residencies at the Joan Mitchell Center!

Learn more >

Close

Home Artist Programs Supported Artists Joshua Mintz

Joshua Mintz

New Orleans, Louisiana

Untitled (Ahh Life) is a miniature sculpture of a white radiator, with 2 tiny books on top, drying socks, and underwear hanging from a wire and paper hanger reading Liberto cleaners.

Untitled (Ahh Life)

2023

Custodian of The Ephemeral is a sculptural installation on a white wall, of various sculpted objects hung on the wall or standing on shelves. Objects include a work boot with the sole out, a spoon, swiss army knife, miniature hanging jacket, rolled blanket with sheep illustration, flower, and clothes hung over a detached bed frame.

Custodian of The Ephemeral

2023

In this detail of I Can Hear Your Dirt is a miniature bathroom sink mounted on a tile wall with hairs in the bowl.

I Can Hear Your Dirt (detail)

2022

I Can Hear Your Dirt is a sculptural installation on white wall, of sculpted domestic items on shelves and brackets at varying scale, including a miniature table and chair, miniature tile wall and bathroom sink, corner of a sink with razor, slightly small work boots, small handing pants, and a ceiling surface with pink insulation and a fire detector.

I Can Hear Your Dirt

2022

Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.

About Joshua Mintz

Joshua Mintz stands in front of greenery in a blue button up shirt. He has short brown hair, a growing-in beard, and light skin tone.

Joshua Mintz (b. New Orleans, LA) received his Bachelors of Art from Rhodes College in 2015 and his Masters of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2019. He has shown nationally in Memphis, New Orleans, New Hampshire, New Jersey, San Francisco, Sacramento, and Texas. In 2022, Joshua was awarded The Helis Foundation prize for Best in Show in the Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s Louisiana Contemporary, curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver. He currently lives and works out of New Orleans.

Program Participation

Joan Mitchell Center Residency, 2024

Website / Social Links

“ I draw on universal experiences of alienation and estrangement. My work, predominantly crafted by hand, feels simultaneously puckish and sincere. Miniature sculptures and almanacs, composed of the seemingly commonplace, shift in scale and materials as I focus on interdependent moments of time. This hybrid approach evokes an immersive Promethean-like experience through enigmatic narratives and loose plots, depending on the viewer to breathe life into the work as they explore the nooks and crannies of feeling human.”

Related Journal Entries

Joshua Mintz, a white man with short dark hair and beard, paints onto miniature bricks in an art studio.

In the Studio: Joshua Mintz

"My work is predominantly handmade miniatures in these sculptural, mercurial alm...

A staggered grid of 37 artworks of diverse aesthetics and media.

Announcing the 2024 Joan Mitchell Center Artists-in-Residence

We are pleased to announce the diverse and distinguished group of artists that w...