Warp Speed: Joshua Sin Public Lecture

The Center for Contemporary Art and Culture at the Pacific Northwest College of Art is proud to welcome Joshua Sin for a lunchtime lecture on his art and practice and his work in Warp Speed: Contemporary Conversations in Fiber.

About Joshua Sin

Joshua (Josh) Sin is a multidisciplinary artist born in Toronto and based in Portland. His practice is rooted in a lifelong commitment to embodied discipline—as a world champion gymnast, concert pianist, cobbler, and designer—disciplines that have shaped a visual language grounded in precision, repetition, and technique.

Sin’s work interrogates consumer culture, technological faith, and nationalist narratives through a fusion of ancestral craft and speculative futurism. Transforming discarded consumer goods and textiles into sacred artifacts, he reimagines waste as a site of spiritual and cultural renewal. His large-scale descendant sculptures, immersive rice room installations, and film works explore cycles of deconstruction and reconstruction as metaphors for identity, ancestry, and transformation.

Drawing from ancient Eastern traditions and digital technologies, Sin visualizes circularity not only as a sustainable model, but as a symbolic act of continual evolution. Bridging past and present, East and West, his practice meditates on how we build, break, and rebuild—materially and spiritually—in pursuit of a more expansive and inclusive future.

September 18, 2025

12-1PM

Pacific Northwest College of Art

In the first-floor Mediatheque

511 NW Broadway, Portland, OR 97209

FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

Livestream available day of on

Thank you to the Ford Family Foundation for their generous support of the Warp Speed exhibition and public programming!

Host or Publisher Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies at PNCA