Hi, I'm Josh.

I'm a Designer, Artist, and World Builder currently exploring play at

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

PLAY 2025

SATIRE 2024

About

Joshua (Josh) Sin is a Canadian artist and designer living in Portland, Oregon.

Trained as a world champion gymnast, a concert pianist, and a cobbler, his work is influenced by thousands of hours of articulating precision, repetition, and technique. Using discarded textiles, ancient ancestral crafts, and digital tools in world-building, he visualize a speculative future where circularity symbolizes the constant evolution of deconstruction and reconstruction. his large-scale descendant sculptures, immersive rice room installations, and video work reimagine narratives on consumer culture, the invisible boundaries between the East and West, the bridge between past and present, and the blind faith towards technology.

For more information, please reach out at joshsin@gmail.com

Selected Exhibitions

2025

Just Playin' Around, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU, Portland, OR

2024

Coming Home, Revitalizing Old Town, 220 Gallery, Portland, OR
The Dump Show, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, California
SATIRE, Shaking The Tree Theatre, Portland, OR Oregon
Cuts Across: Artists Respond to Lived Intersection, Carnations Contemporary,
We Wrote This With You in Mind, Inside the Box Gallery, Portland OR

2023

Regenerations, Portland Chinatown Museum, Portland, OR
Ode to San Francisco, Four Chicken Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Glean, Recology, Parallax Art Center, Portland, OR

2022

Metaverse Biennale SIKKA Art & Design Festival, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Publications, Talks, & More

2024

Silver Medalist - Best Visual Arts for the Global Asian Creative Awards
Anti-Fashion Fashion Show Critiques Consumer Culture - Willamette Weekly
Simultaneity as Design: Everyday Pakistan and Beyond, Beaconhouse National School of Visual Arts and Design, Lahore, Pakistan

2023

Sustainable Fashion Lecture, Portland State University, Portland OR
Asian American Art Talk, Portland Chinatown Museum, Portland, OR
Shed Panel Art Talk - The ReBuilding Center, Portland, OR

2022

Divide Magazine, Vol 4
Zerowaste Workshop - Danielle Elsener, Portland, OR

2016 Shoemaking Apprenticeship - Nassier Vies Studio, Toronto, ON

2015 Titanium Grand Prix winner, Cannes, France

2015 Shoemaking Workshop - School School, Port Townsend, WA

2014 Leather Manipulation - Chicago School of Shoemaking, Chicago, IL

2005 Gymnastic World Championships, Eindhoven, Netherland

2003 Gymnastic World Championship, Hannover, Germany

joshsin@gmail.com