Joshua Littlefield

About the Artist

Joshua Littlefield (b. 1995) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator working primarily in the contexts of photography, collage, and installation. Originally from St. Petersburg, Florida, he obtained his B.F.A in Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2017, and his M.F.A in Photography and Electronic Media from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2020. He is currently based in Baltimore, Maryland, and serves as an adjunct professor at Stevenson University in Owings Mills, Maryland, where he teaches Fundamentals of Design courses. Through his work, Littlefield unveils the realities of an upbringing in a nationwide “bully culture” (one that values traditional notions of success over emotional vulnerability) as an LGBTQIA+ youth, from the standpoints of both victim and participant, and the resulting avoidance strategies and / or coping mechanisms that he (and many others) have developed in response. Much of his work serves as a de-compartmentalization of personal grief and insecurity, and an invitation for others to reflect and do the same. He achieves this via translating language, memory, thought, sensation, and other nebulous aspects of the human experience into the perceptual and tangible spectrum through digitally and physically experimental means. His artworks have been exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries and institutions including RedLine Contemporary Art Center in Denver, CO, The Masur Museum of Art in Monroe, LA, Scarab Club in Detroit, MI, The Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA, and Gologorski Gallery in Krakow, Poland, and printed in publications including The Hand Magazine and Pastiche Magazine.