Josh Brand

Brand was born in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, US in 1980. He undertook his BFA at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, graduating in 2002.^[2]

He undertook his BFA and MFA in Fine Art at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago between 1971-1978.^{[citation needed]} Brand had a darkroom in his family basement, and as a teenager he would experiment for hours with the chemistry of photography, later working as a professional printer. His process-based photographic ‘objects’ are often made as the result of a physically manipulated, completely camera-less procedure.^[3][4][5]

Brand's work has been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial,^[6] White Columns, New York,^[7] Dallas Museum of Art,^[8] the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago,^[9] the CEAAC (European Center for Contemporary Art Actions), Strasbourg,^[10] the Emily Harvey Foundation, New York,^[11] Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College, New York^[12] and Drawing Room, London.^[13] His work is included in the public collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Dallas Museum of Art, US.^[14]