Image Readings: Josh Aronson

Please join us for Image Readings – a monthly community gathering for image makers to share and discuss ongoing bodies of work for feedback and engagement. This month’s meeting is hosted by artist and photographer, Josh Aronson. His staged photographs explore how masculinity, youth, and identity are performed in the Southern landscape.

Space is limited, RSVP required. For those who RSVP to share work, you should plan to bring prints to share on a table or digitially to be shared on a screen.

About Josh Aronson

Josh Aronson (b. 1994, Toronto) is a Miami-based artist whose staged photographs explore masculinity and landscape in the American South. Drawing from archival imagery and his experience growing up in Florida to Middle Eastern and Eastern European parents, he collaborates with local youth to create tableaux that blend tenderness, myth, and history. He is the founder of Photo Book Speed Date, hosted by institutions such as Pérez Art Museum Miami, and has exhibited at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, The Bass Museum of Art, Green Space Miami, and through the City of Miami Beach’s No Vacancy Commission, where in 2024 he became the first artist to win both the Juror’s Prize and People’s Choice Award. His zine Tropicana (2020) is held in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Library of Congress. He has been awarded residencies at The Hambidge Center and The Studios of Key West, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, Frieze, Vogue Italia, and i-D, among others.

(https://www.josharonson.us/)

Reach out to host one of the future meetings by contacting Amanda at abradley@wopha.org