Josh Cloud creates playful, emotive sculptures centered around cartoonish self-portraits that investigate identity, queerness, and intimacy. Emerging from his sketchbook, his forms are inflated into soft, exaggerated sculptures that challenge traditional notions of masculinity by celebrating openness as strength. His sculptures process historical, generational, and personal hardships while simultaneously embracing the absurdity of life. Many of his works include found materials and possess an aged aesthetic quality, existing somewhere between art object and artifact.
Josh Cloud lives and works in Los Angeles and holds a BFA from CalArts. He is currently director of the ceramics program at CalArts. He has had solo exhibitions at Megan Mulrooney, Los Angeles, CA, South Willard, Los Angeles, and Schlomer Haus Gallery, San Francisco, CA, and has been included in group exhibitions at Guerrero Gallery, Los Angeles; Good Mother Gallery, Los Angeles; and Gordon Robichaux, New York; among others.
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Josh CloudTotem, 2026Ceramic, black walnut, mahogany, oak, bronze metal coating, cotton and acrylic cord57 x 20 x 19 in
144.8 x 50.8 x 48.3 cm -
Josh CloudBearing, 2024Ceramic, mahogany, teak, granite, plaster, cotton chord, wire, bronze resin coating21 x 25 x 14 1/2 in
53.3 x 63.5 x 36.8 cm -
Josh CloudHalo, 2026Ceramic, cotton and acrylic cord, aluminum rod, nichrome wire, and string39 x 18 x 11 in
99.1 x 45.7 x 27.9 cm -
Josh CloudMoon, 2026Ceramic, black walnut, cotton and acrylic cord, aluminum rod26 x 19 x 12 in
66 x 48.3 x 30.5 cm -
Josh CloudMourning jug, 2026Ceramic, redwood, nichrome wire, aluminum rod, cotton and acrylic cord26 x 18 x 19 in
66 x 45.7 x 48.3 cm -
Josh CloudOracle, 2025Ceramic, mahogany, cotton chord, and wire39 x 17 x 14 in
99.1 x 43.2 x 35.6 cm -
Josh CloudSilt and Stone, 2026Ceramic, redwood, cotton and acrylic cord, nichrome wire, and string40 x 20 x 14 in
101.6 x 50.8 x 35.6 cm -
Josh CloudStars, 2026Ceramic, chestnut, cotton and acrylic cord, aluminum rod31 x 16 1/2 x 13 1/2 in
78.7 x 41.9 x 34.3 cm -
Josh CloudStone Sentry, 2026Ceramic and granite25 x 21 x 19 in
63.5 x 53.3 x 48.3 cm -
Josh CloudTeared Sentry, 2026Ceramic, redwood, oak, and Apoxie sculpt25 x 20 x 19 in
63.5 x 50.8 x 48.3 cm -
Josh CloudWishing Well, 2026Ceramic, aluminum rod, string, and nichrome wire14 1/2 x 11 x 11 in
36.8 x 27.9 x 27.9 cm -
Josh CloudInterlocking Boquete , 2026Ceramic, pewter metal coating, and string33 x 8 x 1 in
83.8 x 20.3 x 2.5 cm
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Felix Art Fair
Group Presentation 25 Feb - 1 Mar 2026For Felix 2026, Megan Mulrooney presents a group presentation centered on performance: its stages, roles, and the theatricality of contemporary life. A fitting presentation for...Read more -
NADA Miami
Group Presentation 2 - 6 Dec 2025The nude has long been tone of the most overdetermined category in art history: at once classical ideal, moral battleground, and vehicle of liberation. What...Read more -
EXPO Chicago
Josh Cloud and Maddy Inez 24 - 27 Apr 2025BOOTH 219 For EXPO Chicago 2025, Megan Mulrooney Gallery is proud to present a two-person presentation of works by Los Angeles-based sculptors Maddy Inez and...Read more
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Whitewall
First Look: 6 Rooms and Cabanas You Won’t Want to Miss at Felix Art Fair February 25, 2026From February 25–March 1, 2026, Felix Art Fair returns to the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel for its eighth edition, reaffirming its position as one of Los...Read more -
Artsy
At EXPO Chicago 2025, Galleries Take Risks and Find Room to Reflect April 25, 2025There was perhaps an unexpected confidence to be observed when the 2025 edition of EXPO Chicago opened its VIP preview on Thursday, April 24th. Despite...Read more
