JOSH DIHLE (American, b. 1984) lives and works in Chicago, IL. He received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012 and his BA at Middlebury College in 2007. His residencies include Kunstmeile Krems (Austria), Ace Hotel (Chicago, IL), Catwalk Institute (Catskill, NY), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT) and the Ox-Bow Summer Arts Faculty Residency (Sagatauck, MI). Solo exhibitions include M+B (Los Angeles, CA), ANDREW RAFACZ (Chicago, IL), 4th Ward Project Space (Chicago, IL), the McAninch Arts Center (Chicago, IL), and Valerie Carberry Gallery (Chicago, IL). Group exhibitions include Gaa Gallery (New York, NY), MASSIMODECARLO Vspace (Milan, Italy), University of Maine Museum of Art (Bangor, ME), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, IL), Rover (Chicago, IL), Elmhurst Art Museum (Elmhurst, IL), Flyweight Projects (New York, NY), Essex Flowers Gallery (New York, NY), Ruschman (Mexico City, Mexico) and Annarumma Gallery (Naples, Italy). His work and curatorial projects have been written about in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, New City, Artspace, The Washington Post, and Artsy, among others. Dihle is a co-director of the Chicago artist project space Julius Caesar, co-founder of COLOR CLUB (Chicago, IL), co-founder of Barely Fair (Chicago, IL), and co-founder of The Sugar Hole, the world’s only puppet-powered ice cream walk-up window (located at Color Club, Chicago, IL).