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. Recent 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). Dihle’s work has been exhibited in group shows nationally and internationally, including Wasserman Projects (Detroit, MI), MASSIMODECARLO, Vspace (Milan, Italy), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, IL), Rover (Chicago, IL), Elmhurst Art Museum (Elmhurst, IL), IAM Gallery (New York, NY), Flyweight Projects (New York, NY), Essex Flowers Gallery (New York, NY), Ruschman (Mexico City,Mexico) and Annarumma Gallery (Naples, Italy). Dihle has participated in residencies including Ace Hotel (Chicago, IL), Catwalk Institute (Catskill, New York), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT) and at the Ox-Bow Summer Arts Faculty Residency (Napa, CA). In 2021, he was the artist-in-residence at Kunstmeile Krems (Austria). 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) and a Co-Founder of Barely Fair (Chicago, IL).