"There Are No Lakes in Los Angeles" (2018), is an ongoing project that focuses on the movement of the NBA Lakers from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Los Angeles, California. When the team moved in 1960, the name Lakers stayed attached to the team and only the location identifier changed. The act of leaving the name Lakers constantly recalls its regional displacement from a place of aquatic abundance––the “Land of 10,000 Lakes”––to a place where lakes are predominantly artificially constructed. 

Joshua Peder Stulen (b. 1986, Spicer, Minnesota) received a MFA in sculpture from California College of the Arts in 2015 and a BFA in sculpture from St. Cloud State University, Minnesota, in 2009. The predominant focus of Stulen’s artistic practice is the cultural role of sport and music venues within society. His focus of late has been on the effect of stadium development and erasure within urban spaces; specifically San Francisco, Oakland, and Minneapolis. Stulen has exhibited and performed at the Contemporary Jewish Museum (2017); the Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis (2017); Hayes Valley Art Works (2016); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2015); Southern Exposure (2015, 2014); the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2015); Art in Odd Places, Indianapolis (2014); the Lumberyard, Marfa, Texas (2014); the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2014); and the Soap Factory, Minneapolis (2009), among other places.