Biography

Josh Brainin (b. 1997) is a filmmaker and artist based between Chicago and NYC. He holds a BA from Amherst College and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Film & Video. Through films that blur the line between the fictional and the real, as well as through costume design and performance, josh’s practice investigates questions of youth cultures, Black/mixed racializations, masculine conditionings, and the relationship between art and its institutional settings.