Joshua Gen Solondz

Photo by Ed Halter

Joshua Gen Solondz is an artist working in moving image, sound, and performance. He’s screened in a variety of festivals including Images, Toronto International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Onion City, Black Maria, Portland International, Milwaukee Underground, CAAMFest, San Diego Asian Film Festival, Chicago Underground, Locarno, Mar del Plata, FIC Valdivia, Viennale, and New York Film Festival. He's also shown at venues such as REDCAT, Light Industry, UnionDocs, Harvard Film Archive, MoMA, DINCA, NYU, Red Room, ATA, AGX, and Black Hole Cinematheque.

Solondz has received awards from Athens International Film+Video Festival, Spectral Film Festival, Black Maria, New Orleans Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, and Ann Arbor Film Festival as well as commissions for shows at Heliopolis, ACRE TV, WNDX, and microscope gallery. They have an ongoing collaboration with Jim Supanick as the electronic slime duo known as SynthHumpers. In 2024, Solondz became a New York State Council for the Arts Grantee.

Josh studied at Bard College and received their MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. They live in Brooklyn, NY with his partner and occasional collaborator Emma Brenner-Malin.