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Curriculum Vitae

Joshua Kochis is an artist from Southeast Michigan. His professional creative practice is focused on public sculpture. Joshua's most recent work, Phantom Limb, can be found in Shelby Park, Nashville, TN. It was installed in 2024 and is still standing at just about fifty feet tall. His sculpture titled Bouquet is part of the collection at Michigan Legacy Art Park in Thompsonville, MI, where he participated as the 2021 Artist in Residence. His work has been shown most notably at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, among other galleries and institutions across the Midwest. He has worked as a fabrication specialist and studio instructor at Pewabic Pottery since 2017. He received his BFA from the University of Michigan School of Art & Design in 2015. Joshua is based in Detroit, MI.

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Public Art

June 2024

Shelby Park

Nashville, TN

October 2022

Bryant Vermont Park

Detroit, MI

October 2021

Michigan Legacy Art Park

Thompsonville, MI

Phantom Limb 

Ash wood, hardware

Nashville Tree Foundation

Welcome Gate with Birds

Salvaged wood, stone, concrete, paint, hardware

Detroit Audubon Society, Woodbridge Neighborhood Development

Bouquet

Maple, Beech, Cedar, and Ash wood, concrete, stone, hardware

Charles McGee Artist in Residence Program

Selected Exhibitions

October - November 2023

Muskegon, MI

February - August 2021

Detroit, MI

September - October 2020

St. Charles, IL

May - July 2019

Detroit, MI

Cups Invitational

Muskegon Museum of Art

Dual Visions

Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD)

Voices of the Midwest

Kavanagh Gallery, Fine Line Creative Arts Center

WILD

The Scarab Club

Education

2010 - 2015

Ann Arbor, MI

Bachelor of Fine Art, Creative Writing

University of Michigan School of Art & Design,

School of Language, Science, and the Arts

Summer 2014

Ballyvaughan, Ireland

Study Abroad

Burren College of Art

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