JOSHUA SPIVACK
Artist
Born October 10, 1982
EDUCATION
2005 School Of The Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston Massachusetts
EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCE
2020 "Abstract Visions" Solo show in Beacon, New York
2016 Solo exhibit in Aspö, Sweden
2015 "The Rise Of Sneaker Culture" featuring a sneaker by Joshua "Wisdumb" Spivack at The Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York (Traveling sneaker museum exhibition)
2014 Joshua Spivack solo show at Slice of Life Gallery in Malmö, Sweden
2013 "Connecting The Motion Of Ideas" Joshua "Wisdumb" Spivack solo show at Gallery 360 in Boston, Massachusetts
2013 "Out of the Box Exhibition" featuring sneaker by Joshua "Wisdumb" Spivack at The Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, Canada (Traveling sneaker museum exhibition)
2011 "ART @ 52 OXFORD" Group exhibition at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts
2009 "Inkcronization" at Grand in Somerville, Massachusetts
2005 Sneaker Pimps New York World Touring custom sneaker, hip-hop, & street art culture exhibition - Featured: live painting performance & custom designed sneakers - Manhattan, New York Sneaker Pimps and Boston Massachusetts
CORPORATE COMMISSIONS
2005 HELIO/ALT TERRAIN 30’x 30’ mural for HELIO mobile phone guerrilla marketing campaign - SOWA Art District, Boston Massachusetts
2004 New Balance Athletic Shoe Inc. & Joshua "Wisdumb" Spivack Collaboration: custom design for 1st edition of New Balance limited release “Artist Series” sneaker collections (Joshua "Wisdumb" Spivack NB 574 AE)
PRINT PUBLICATIONS & TELEVISED APPEARANCES
2015 Out Of The Box: The Rise Of Sneaker Culture
NY: American Federation Of The Arts p 217
2014 Aug.17 Claren, Ulf. "Fran Sneakers till herr och fur Obama" Swedish Newspaper Interview SYDSVENSKAN
2010 McQuaid, Cate. “They play with light and glass: Making A Splash” Double Vision exhibition review The Boston Globe Arts & Entertainment
Sep. 15th 2009 Liu, Franklin W. “Natural World” Artscope: New England’s Culture Magazine Volume 4 Issue 2 May-June p 24
2008 Documentary “Sneaker Confidential” sneaker art culture, personal Interview CBC-TV Mar. 13th www.cbc.ca/documentaries/confidential/sneaker.html
Intercity. Art & Sole: Contemporary Sneaker Art & Design London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd. Print. p 23
MAKI. Custom Kicks: Personalized Footwear. London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd. Print. p 37 2006 Hundly, Jessica. “Sound & Vision” HELIO Magazine Premiere Issue Spring p 42
Phillips, Tracy. “Alumni News” Art Matters: School Of The Museum Of Fine Arts Boston Fall 2005 “The Chronicle” Interview ABC WCBV-TV Dodero, Camille.
“ID Check: Sneaker Pimp” Interview The Boston Phoenix Nov. 4th p 9 Healy, Patrick Gerard “Boston Uncommon: Face Maker” photograph & interview (personal artwork pictured: Untitled. 2005) Boston Globe Magazine Nov. 13th p 9