
Josh Lord, born 1972 and raised in the bay-side suburb of Mornington, Victoria,
started his career as an independent Australian artist in 1992.
Influenced by cultural movements and art genres including Pop Art, Dada and Surrealism.
His paintings are a mix of all those styles and movements.
Lord has no formal fine art qualification; he is a self-taught artist and his inspiration and main influences to pursue a career in visual arts have been Germany's Bauhaus Theory,
John Brack, James Rosenquist, an American artist who was one of the protagonists in the Pop-Art movement, as well as Robert Rauschenberg and Barbara Kruger.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Newspeak & Thoughtcrimes - Ministry of Art. Melbourne. Australia
2014 This used to be the future - D11, Docklands. Melbourne. Australia
2011 Do Electric Sheep Follow the Digital Herd - Gasworks Art Park. Melbourne. Australia
2011 Shoot'n From the Hip of Insanity - Bower Gallery. Melbourne. Australia
2010 The Tamborines - Camera & Tremor. The Victoria. UK
2010 In the Shape of Things to Come Pt 2 - Hogan Gallery. Melbourne. Australia
2010 In the Shape of Things to Come - Fad Gallery. Melbourne. Australia
2009 When it was Yesterday - Fad Gallery. Melbourne. Australia
2006 Mis-Communication - Tempera Gallery. Melbourne. Australia
2005 Untitled - Wall Gallery. Melbourne. Australia
2004 Fad Gallery. Melbourne. Australia
2003 Hunny I Wish You’d Stop It - Fad Gallery. Melbourne. Australia
2002 The Road to Take - Yellow Dot Gallery. Edinburgh. Scotland
2000 Untitled Artist Open Space. Edinburgh. Scotland
1999 Lifeless Move to Post-Liberation of Self - Goya Gallery. Melbourne. Australia
1997 Lights Out in Space - View Gallery. New York. USA
1997 Cycle of Light - Fad Gallery. Melbourne. Australia
1996 Untitled - 100 Gallery. Ferntree Gully. Australia
1996 Blue - Puffin Gallery. Melbourne. Australia
1995 Untitled - Customs Wharf. Melbourne. Australia
1994 Untitled - Red Room. Melbourne. Australia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Curator - Melbourne's Burning - Paradise Hills Gallery. Melbourne. Australia
2010 Upgrade/Down Grade - Open Concept Gallery. Michigan. USA
2010 Summer Leaves - Joshua Levi Gallery. Brisbane. Australia
2009 April Circle of Life - Wall’s Gallery. Amsterdam. Netherlands
2009 Belvedere Vodka Art Exhibition, McCulloch Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2009 Josh Lord & James Sedgwick - Workshop. Melbourne. Australia
2009 Art Auction - Fad Gallery. Melbourne. Australia
2008 April Thrill & Suspense - Wall’s Gallery. Amsterdam. Netherlands
2008 Curator - Shadow Project - Fad Gallery. Melbourne. Australia
2007 Fad Gallery. Melbourne. Australia
2007 Wall Gallery. Melbourne. Australia
2006 End of Year - Tusk Gallery. Melbourne. Australia
2006 End of Year - Wall Gallery. Melbourne. Australia
2006 Mid Year - McCulloch Gallery. Melbourne. Australia
2006 Fad Gallery. Melbourne. Australia
2006 Famous Mid Year Show - Wall Gallery. Melbourne. Australia
2004 Fad Gallery. Melbourne. Australia
2004 Melbourne Artist - Jackman Gallery. Melbourne. Australia
2001 Artist Run Space. Edinburgh. Scotland
2000 Untitled No.1 Artist Run Space - Melbourne. Australia
1999 End of Year - Goya Gallery. Melbourne. Australia
1999 Fad Gallery. Melbourne. Australia
1999 Mid Year - Goya Gallery. Melbourne. Australia
1997 Curator - De-ranged - Mt Dandenong Cultural Centre. Melbourne. Australia
ALBUM ART
2020 The Vendettas - Rats on the Wheel (Single)
2019 Frankie Teardrop Dead - Plane Eclipse
2019 Smallpox Confidential - Smallpox Confidential
2019 Ronny Da - Root Shoot or Electrocute
2016 Harry Howard and the NDE - Sleepless Girls
2016 Taipan Tiger Girls - 02
MUSIC VIDEOS
2015 Hugo Race and The True Spirit - False Idols
2013 The Ears - Pornstar
2010 Art works used by Vj’s in France, projections at dance parties.
2009 Art used to wall paper Melbourne venue Brown Alley for Pendulum gig.
COMMISSIONS
2019 Fad Gallery Bar - Melbourne
2014-15 Inspirations Paint/Dulux. -West Footscary Melbourne
2012 Brunswick Foodstore - Brunswick. Melbourne
2009 Little B - Little Bourke St. Melbourne
2007 Poached - Lygon’s. Brunswick,
1997 Master Vision - New York. USA
1997 International House - New York. USA
1996 Ronald MacDonald House - Hong Kong
MEDIA
Planetarts - Artshub - RRR Radio - SYN Radio - Invert - Herald Sun
Leader Newspapers - Dark Angel - Art and Text - Mooks - MV DECOUVERTES
PUBLIC
2010 Summer Sessions Demonstrations
2007 Telstra
1998 Carrum Downs Secondary Collage