Joshua Masters

Teaching Artist/Instructor ; Visual Arts : Ceramics , Functional and/or Decorative , Mixed Media , Murals , Painting , Visual Arts Instructor , Works on paper

Joshua Masters (b. 1998, San Jose, CA) was raised in Raleigh, NC, USA. Masters’ interdisciplinary series are rooted in material research and informed by critical disability theory. They pull from their research of experimental magnetite formation, expression of disability identities through art, and their experience as a trans, disabled person. Masters broaches topics of disability identity, communal identity, and destigmatization through the use of autofiction, interactive pottery, and serial narrative paintings among other bodies of work.

Among their achievements, they have been awarded Best in Show at the 56th Annual Juried Undergraduate Exhibition of Western Carolina University’s Fine Art Museum in Cullowhee, NC, they were nominated for the Wingate-Lamar Fellowship nominee at the Center for Craft in Asheville, NC, and Best in Show at SparkCon in Raleigh, NC. Their works have been shown in Artfields at the Jones-Carter Gallery in Lake City, SC, The Dark Side at the Boomer Gallery, London, UK, the 14th Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition 2023 at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norfolk, CT, and as part of Pride Pots: Community Conversations at the Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA.

Beginning their art practice in 2015 freelancing, they have been a muralist, glassblowing assistant, figure painter, ceramicist, and more. They earned a BFA in Studio Art at Western Carolina University in 2024 are currently pursuing an MFA in Art at Florida State Universit ... view more »