Josh Wirz (pronounced 'vee-ur-tz')
(he/him)
British / Swiss, lives and works in Glasgow
interdisciplinary artist
2018 MA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art (UCL), London UK
2015 BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths (University of London), London UK
2012 Foundation in Art and Design, Leeds College of Art, Leeds UK
2026 Aly Farrelly, Test Tube, 19 September – 04 October 2026
2026 East End Open, 10 – 26 July 2026
2026 Holly O'Brien, Porthole, 22 May – 14 June 2026
2026 India Boxall, Unidentified Fabulating Object, 09 April – 26 April 2026
2026 Caught in the Act, Finn Robinson, 13 February – 08 March 2026
2025 nuevos plásticos, chema, 28 November – 14 December 2025
2025 'Does the world need another gas field?', Inter Arts Center, Malmö SE
2025 'LIVE @ White Cart Water', Refractive Artist Commission (Paisley Eco Pixels), Paisley UK
2025 'Whatsapp', Midnight, Strangefield, Glasgow UK
2024 'I'm here, soft and haptic', 'Filibuster' & 'Xaromantor', Touch Glass, Lewisham Art House, London UK
2024 'A person frowning at a Salami', Tales Unexpected, Secret Garden Party, Cambridgeshire UK
2024 'Xaromantor', Performance Machines, IB Art London, London UK
2024 'Filibuster', Shell International Shareholders Conference / Performance at Glasgow Sculpture Studios, London / Glasgow UK
2024 'Xaromantor', Bits & Bytes, New Glasgow Society, Glasgow UK
2024 'Xaromantor', Gradient Descent, Gossamer Fog, London UK
2024 This is my favourite colour!, SWATCHEDxcool, New Glasgow Society, Glasgow UK
2024 23/01/24, A Sense of Urgency, Boardroom Committeeroom, Glasgow UK
2023 'Fixed', Hybrid Mirrors, The Wrong Biennale (online)
2023 'A person frowning at a Salami', Good Vibrations Society, Surrey UK
2022 'Plug Fair / Through a glass, darkly.', Public Emersion, Inter Arts Center, Malmö SE
2021 'Cumfort Glassea', Vision Magazine, eyeglasses.com (online)
2021 'Not seeing, the crime for cameras', Vision Magazine, eyeglasses.com (online)
2021 'Plug Fair / Through a glass, darkly.', Lahti Fringe Festival, Lahti FI
2020 'Plug Fair / Through a glass, darkly.', Stockholm Fringe Festival, Stockholm SE
2019 'A person frowning at a Salami', Gisa Crack, AMP Gallery, London UK
2019 'A person frowning at a Salami', Mellifluous Elephant, Donna Laura Gallery, Lisbon PT
2018 'If Civilisation', Bar Bados Project Space, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh UK
2018 '10 ideas', '10 Ideas', Touch me, Bloomsbury Theatre Blackbox, London UK
2018 'Two People frowning at a Salami', Live Arc, Chalten Gallery, London UK
2018 'The accumulative worth of an apple', Elmer Art Space, London UK
2018 'Moshing', im sorry i was late, SETSETSET Gallery Dalston, London UK
2017 'Follow hare', Have you seen this woman?, Chalton Gallery, London UK
2017 'Plug Fair / Through a glass, darkly.', Bristo Square Promenade, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh UK
2017 'Eloise', I conversed with the spiritual sun that I saw them (curated w/ Eom Jeongwon), Primrose Hill Park, London UK
2015 'Turmeric land', You Have Got My Bone, Old Foyles Building, London UK
2015 'Panda ball', Above the chamber, Menier Gallery, London UK
2015 'Slug ships', I love the water, Gallery of HFBK, Hamburg GE
2026 'Snares, and partial answers', Another Kind of Power, FormaHQ, London UK
2025 'A person frowning at a Salami', Tales Unexpected, Come Bye Festival, Abergavenny UK
2025 'Plug Fair / Through a glass, darkly.', The Same Deep Water as You, Pink, Manchester UK
2025 'LIVE @ White Cart Water', Refractive Artist Commission (Paisley Eco Pixels), Paisley UK
2024 'A person frowning at a Salami', Tales Unexpected, Secret Garden Party, Cambridgeshire UK
2024 'Filibuster', Shell International Shareholders Conference / Performance at Glasgow Sculpture Studios, London / Glasgow UK
2023 'A person frowning at a Salami', Good Vibrations Society, Surrey UK
2022 'Plug Fair / Through a glass, darkly.', Public Emersion, Inter Arts Center, Malmö SE
2021 'Plug Fair / Through a glass, darkly.', Lahti Fringe Festival, Lahti FI
2020 'Plug Fair / Through a glass, darkly.', Stockholm Fringe Festival, Stockholm SE
2019 'A person frowning at a Salami', Gisa Crack, AMP Gallery, London UK
2019 'A person frowning at a Salami', Mellifluous Elephant, Donna Laura Gallery, Lisbon PT
2018 'Moshing', im sorry i was late, SETSETSET Gallery Dalston, London UK
2018 'If Civilisation', Bar Bados Project Space, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh UK
2018 '10 ideas', '10 Ideas', Touch me, Bloomsbury Theatre Blackbox, London UK
2018 'A person frowning at a Salami', Live Arc, Chalten Gallery, London UK
2025 'Medusa', Fragility in the Eye of the Beholder, Void Gallery, 16 Nicholson Street Collective, Glasgow UK
2025 'Medusa', Viddy Horrowshow, TACO, London UK
2025 'Frenemy', How are artists in dialogue with academics?, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK
2025 'Filibuster', ehfm.live, Online
2024 'Filibuster disruption at the Shell Annual Shareholders Conference', Biscuit, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh UK
2024 'Medusa', Runt of the Litter, Oslo House, London UK
2023 'Medusa', Volume four, Permeable Barrier (Online)
2021 'Cumfort Glassea', Vision Magazine, eyeglasses.com (online)
2021 'Not seeing, the crime for cameras', Vision Magazine, eyeglasses.com (online)
2019 'Gendered toilet graffiti', BF Film Festival IX, GRAFT, Lancaster UK
2019 'Gendered toilet graffiti', Volume one, Permeable Barrier (Online)
2025 Inter Arts Center, Malmö SE
2023 Performance Art Forum PAF, Rennes FR
2019 Mellifluous Elephant, Donna Laura Gallery, Lisbon PT
2017 FAR A FIELD, Slade School of Fine Art, London UK
2015 Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg GE
2020 Most Innovative in Performance, Stockholm Fringe Festival, Stockholm SE (won)
2018 Kaitak Centre, Hong Kong HK, (shortlisted)
2017 Red Mansion Art Prize, Beijing CHN, (shortlisted)
2023 (co-edited) Lurking, Volume five, Permeable Barrier (Online)
2023 Immersive Days #2 Public Immersion, Christine Antaya, IAC Malmö
2025 'Artist talk', Refractive Collective, Paisley UK
2025 'Frenemy (My Algorithm and Me): bringing research into technologically mediated inequalities into practice', Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK
2023 'Archiving the Algorithm', Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK
2023 'Algorithmic Armour', (Workshop), Good Vibrations Society, Surrey UK
2018 'Build Your Own Avatar', (Workshop Series), Focal Point Gallery, Southend UK