Joshua Hart

Joshua Charles Hart is an American artist whose illustrative style continues to evolve with the incorporation of painterly techniques of acrylic washes where colors and figures are blended into vivid and often surreal depictions of personal visions and intricate words and poems seamlessly integrated into the work.

Hart was born in 1979 and grew up in Santa Maria, CA. He attended Otis College of Art and Design and was awarded “Best in Show” in 2004 for illustration.

He creates his paintings at home in West Hollywood in his studio named after his mother “Studio Lucille”. His best friend was his pug named Jinx and finds his ultimate pride and joy in his young family, wife Alexandra, children Mia, and Milo.

Hart’s body of work has always imbued a deep dense of tender emotion with characters and themes that seamlessly integrate both haunting expression and ironic truth. With Harts latest series of paintings lies some of his most personal work to date. A collection of deeply personal expressions that focus on finding your voice and trying to be heard when you feel no one is listening.

As a child Hart was often described as “so quiet, so small”, and would create entire worlds in his head as a means to fill the void left by a s...

BFA 2004 with a concentration on Illustration, Otis College of Art and Design.
Winner of the Gold Medal award 2004 "Best in Class Illustration."

2017
Mar, 2017 "It Might be over Soon, Bench Gallery, SF SOLO

April, 2017 "Beware of the Unloved", eyegallery, Ithaca, NY GROUP

2016
Mar, 2016 On the Wondrous Second life of Earth SOLO
C.A.V.E. Gallery

2015
May, 2015 "Lucky 7" Anniversary Show GROUP
C.A.V.E. Gallery

2014
Oct, 2014 So Quiet, So Small SOLO
C.A.V.E. Gallery

2013
Dec, 2013 Deck the Walls: Annual Holiday Group Show
C.A.V.E. Gallery

2012
Oct, 2012 Eunoia Music SOLO

C.A.V.E. Gallery
May, 2012 LO-CAL: Celebrating the New Contemporary Art Movement of Southern California GROUP

2011

Sep, 2011 Dig For Fire - Art Inspired by the Pixies GROUP
C.A.V.E. Gallery

Oct, 2011 "Arcane Season" , Solo CAVE Gallery

2009

On the Bright Side Cave Gallery GROUP

Cannibal Flower New Puppy Gallery GROUP

2006

Picks of the Harvest 4 Thinkspace Gallery Group
Picks of the Harvest 3 Thinkspace Gallery Group

2005

Everything but the Kitschen Sync La Luz De Jesus Group

2004

Everything but the Kitschen Sync La Luz De Jesus Group