Biography

Joshua Enck (born 1977) is a sculptor who teaches and maintains an active studio practice in Rochester, New York. He trained as an architect and a furniture designer, receiving his MFA in furniture design from the Rhode Island School of Design and his BSAS from the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois. He taught for ten years at RISD: drawing, three-dimensional design, technical drawing, woodworking, and metalworking.  He has also taught woodworking at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center and drawing at the University of Illinois, Williams College, and the University of Rochester.  Joshua has exhibited his work in solo shows at Space Gallery, the RIT City Art Space, Simon Gallery, and the University of Maine Museum of Art.  The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, the Society of Arts and Crafts in Boston, the Haystack School of Crafts, and the Center for Art in Wood in Philadelphia have honored his work.  Joshua spent five months in India as a Fulbright Nehru Scholar, researching traditional metalsmithing and teaching at the Sushant School of Design.  He most recently was the Anna Ballarian Visiting Artist at the Rochester Institute of Technology.