Artist Bio

Justin T. Walsh creates work at the intersection of vulnerability, failure, humor, nature and cultural critique. Moving between photography, video, sculpture, ceramics, and performance, his practice operates as a form of neo-anthropology and internal excavation—an ongoing effort to understand how humans construct meaning, identity, and intimacy through fragile gestures, absurd attempts at control, and a rapidly divergent shift from our natural evolution in favor of the augmented spaces we create.

Often working in series, Walsh builds layered investigations that shift between the digital and natural worlds. In Masculine Endeavors, he attempts and fails at traditionally masculine tasks—hunting, chopping, skinning, fixing—as a means of exposing both the absurdity and tenderness embedded in those performances. In NOI, ripped paper and urban residue become archaeological evidence of an external locus of control, while the DIGI-KADO series, Gilding A Lilly (shown here) and Other Worlds translate the natural and the imagined into the a digital realm, folding and embracing the porous edge between the synthetic and the organic. Across these works, flowers, everyday objects, and remnants of the domestic recur as symbols of care, futility, and persistence.

Central to his practice is the interplay of the poetic and the absurd. Walsh uses humor not as deflection but as a strategy of revelation—puncturing authority to reveal deeper truths about performance, failure, and being. His works are intimate acts of resistance against perfection, inviting viewers into a space where seriousness and play coexist.

Walsh’s inquiries now turn toward visibility and invisibility, the body’s dialogue with environment, and the quiet inhabiting of a changing, aging self. These explorations—of masculinity through fatherhood, of anxiety and neurodivergence through embodiment—mark a shift toward vulnerability as a site of reconnection. His work seeks to reimagine how art can hold a mirror in one hand and a torch in the other, illuminating the tender contradictions of what it means to be human and fully awake.