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Joshua Unikel
Assistant Professor

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MFA, Studio Art, SUNY Buffalo
MFA, Creative Writing, The University of Iowa
BA, Hobart College (Summa Cum Laude)

Joshua Unikel has shown at the 2022 AIGA National Conference; Dubai Art
Season 2020 (UAE); Sofia Art Week 2019 (Bulgaria); Griffith University Art
Gallery (Australia); DesignPhiladelphia; The Museum of Contemporary Art
Detroit; The Center for Contemporary Printmaking; and elsewhere.

His work is in the collections of The Library of Congress’ Rare Books and
Manuscripts Collection; The Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt Museum Library;
Yale’s Beinecke Library; the Poetry Foundation; The Center for Book Arts
(NYC); The Letterform Archive; The Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s Hirsch
Library; and elsewhere.

He is the co-editor of Beyond Category (Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Press, 2015) and has been published in The Iowa Review, Western
Humanities Review, The Collagist, Tupelo Quarterly, The Journal, Sonora
Review, [PANK], TriQuarterly, The Essay Review, Fugue, The Normal School,
Essay Daily and other national journals.

He has lectured at Typecon, AIGA Design Educators Conference (DEC), the
Design History Society Conference, ReVIEWING Black Mountain College
Conference, AWP, NonfictioNOW, and elsewhere. His work has been
supported by residencies at AGA Lab (The Netherlands) and DesignInquiry,
where he was a two-time fellow. In 2022, he was also an AIGA DEC Design &
Writing Fellow.

Unikel is an affiliate faculty in UH’s Center for Public History.