About

Joshua (Josh) Sin, a Toronto-born, Portland-based multidisciplinary artist, draws on his lifelong training as a world champion gymnast, concert pianist, shoemaker, and industrial designer to shape a visual language of precision, repetition, and technique.

His work interrogates consumer culture, technological faith, and nationalist narratives by fusing ancestral craft with speculative futurism, transforming discarded goods and textiles into sacred artifacts that reframe waste as a site of renewal. Rooted in cycles of deconstruction and reconstruction, Sin’s practice explores identity, ancestry, and transformation, drawing from both ancient Eastern traditions and digital technologies.

Through circularity, both as a sustainable model and a metaphor for continual evolution, he bridges past and present, East and West, reflecting on how we build, break, and rebuild, materially and spiritually, toward a more expansive and inclusive future.

Selected Exhibitions

2026

World Within a World, Lan Su Chinese Garden, Portland, OR (forthcoming)
Lan Su Chinese Garden, Artist Residency, Portland, OR (forthcoming)
GMA Architects Residency, Portland, OR
Nike Air Milano Jacket and Team USA uniform, 2026 Olympics, Milan, Italy.

2025

Warp Speed, Center for Creative Arts & Culture at PNCA, Portland, OR
Just Playin' Around, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU, Portland, OR
Environmental Learning Center Gallery, Recology, San Francisco, CA

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
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

2025

Please, Play with the Art, PDX Monthly
Just Play' Around: Seriously? Of Course, Oregon Artswatch
Fresh Connections - JSMA Art Talk

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

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