About
Joshua Unikel has shown at the 2022 AIGA National Conference; Dubai Art Season 2020 (United Arab Emirates); Sofia Art Week 2019 (Bulgaria); Griffith University Art Gallery (Australia); The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit; DesignPhiladelphia; and other international venues. His work has been collected in Yale’s Beinecke Library, The Library of Congress’ Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection, Cooper Hewitt’s Library, the Letterform Archive, and elsewhere.
His writing has appeared in The Iowa Review, Western Humanities Review, The Normal School, and other national journals. He was a co-editor of Beyond Category (Hobart and William Smith Colleges Press, 2014) and is a contributing editor for Seneca Review.
He has lectured at ATypI, the Design History Society Conference, AIGA Design Educators Conference, TypeCon, ReViewing Black Mountain College Conference, AWP, and NonfictioNow. He has an MFA in studio art from SUNY Buffalo's Department of Art and an MFA in creative writing from The University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program.
Unikel is an associate professor in the School of Art and an affiliate faculty in the Center for Public History at the University of Houston.