Josh Kline
Josh Kline (b. 1979, Philadelphia, USA; lives and works in New York, USA) explores the impact of emergent technologies on 21st century life through his immersive, mixed-media installations. Incorporating video, sculpture, photography and design, Kline conjures uncanny, dystopic realities of a corporatised world governed by capitalist excess.
From 3D printing, advertising and image editing to productivity-enhancing substances, Kline’s work examines how the modern working class is treated as expendable labour amid social and political issues such as climate change, automation, disease and democratic erosion. In Blue Collars (2014–2020), the artist combines video interviews of blue-collar workers and 3D renderings of their disembodied heads and limbs to paint an unsettling portrait of their economic precarity. Confronting the dehumanisation of the workforce, Kline’s practice offers viewers a disturbing yet prescient vision of an inequitable society prizing productivity at the expense of its most vulnerable.
Kline’s work is found in leading collections including The Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim and The Whitney Museum, New York; The Baltimore Museum of Art; and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. His works have been widely exhibited in the United States and internationally, in exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum, and MoMA PS1, New York; The Hirshhorn Museum and The National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; LAXART, Los Angeles; ICA Boston; ICA Philadelphia; MOCA Cleveland; Portland Art Museum; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; KW, Berlin; Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel; Modern Art Oxford, UK; Yuz Museum, Shanghai; Louisiana Museum, Denmark; and MCAD Manila, Philippines, among others.
Notable solo exhibitions include Climate Change (2024), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Project for a New American Century (2023), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. The artist also recently participated in major international festivals including Ten Thousand Suns (2024), 24th Biennale of Sydney; and Wild Grass: Our Lives (2024), 8th Yokohama Triennial.
Kline had his residency at STPI in 2025 and 2026.
Regarded as one of the leading print workshops globally, STPI supports the work of artists through experimentation. At STPI, we see ourselves as collaborators rather than traditional printmakers or papermakers. Our workshop operates like an open kitchen: we have our standard menu of techniques and equipment, but we are always ready to adapt and experiment. Whether a work on paper or something entirely unexpected, our focus is on problem-solving alongside the artists to bring their vision to life.
