Red wax casting of a vinyl record in frame.

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 sports, recreation, and leisure within society. His focus of late has been on the affect of stadiums deconstruction and construction within urban spaces; specifically San Francisco, Oakland, St. Louis, and Minneapolis. Using performance, site-specific events, installations, sculptural interventions, and museum studies, he explores the ways in which social forms, places, spaces, and ideologies are developed in relation to these fields. Stulen has exhibited and performed at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco (2017); Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis (2017); Hayes Valley Art Works, San Francisco (2016); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2015); the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (2015); Southern Exposure, San Francisco (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); Sports Basement, San Francisco (2014); Art of This, Minneapolis (2009); and the Soap Factory, Minneapolis (2009), among other places. Along with this, he is one third of the collective groups Stadium Projects; Monte Masi (Adelaide, AU) and Lex Kosieradzki (St Louis, MO) and The Potrero Hill Painting Club; Matt Kotzkin (Los Angeles, CA) and Dan Bouthot (Portland, OR). He is also the founder of an art event carpool service called arT pOOL. He lives and works in San Francisco, CA.