Joshua Jensen-Nagle
“My work over the past several years has explored the use of photography as a medium to create. Whether it is SX-70 Polaroid, photographic prints painted and then re-photographed, or shooting with the latest digital technology, I understand photography as a means to create rather than to document a reality, allowing the viewer to bring their own associations to the work.”
Biography
Contemporary photographer, Joshua Jensen-Nagle captures scenes of leisure from a distance, often from high above, transforming people on beaches and ski-slopes into toy-like figures against sublime natural backdrops. Both of his ongoing series Endless Summer and Winter show people as colorful specks clustered on long stretches of sand or snow like abstract elements. His immersive, cinematic, large-scale photos invite viewers to lose themselves in the crowd and the striking landscape, sparking associations that might resemble the artist’s own memories of “childhood summers spent along the New Jersey shore and winters in the Poconos.”
In the tradition of photographers like Thomas Struth and Andreas Gursky, Jensen-Nagle’s images reveal arresting visual patterns in the everyday world and create dramatic shifts in perspective that show humans completely enveloped by their environment. Viewing photography as a “means to evoke emotion rather than document a reality,” he has spent a decade traveling the globe in search of beachscapes dotted with bathers and mountainscapes sprinkled with skiers to turn into compelling images, often hanging out of helicopters to capture his birds-eye views.
Based in Toronto, Jensen-Nagle has mounted over fifty exhibitions in the last dozen years across North America and Europe, including at the Griffin Museum in Boston and the Glenbow Museum in Calgary. He has placed his photographs in numerous private and corporate collections including Microsoft, MasterCard International, Cirque De Soliel, Transcontinental, Target and Hilton Hotels, and has seen his work featured in a variety of publications, including Art In America, Canadian Art, Fashion and Harper’s.
Education
2003 BFA, Ryerson University, Image Arts, Photographic Studies
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2018 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA.
2017 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2016 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA.
Galerie De Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.
Bau-Xi, Vancouver, BC.
Newzones, Calgary AB.
Galerie De Medicis, Paris, France.
2015 Bau-Xi Photo, Toronto, ON.
Galerie De Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.
2014 Bau-Xi Photo, Toronto ON.
Newzones, Calgary, AB.
2013 Bau-Xi Photo, Toronto, ON.
Bau-Xi Photo, Toronto, ON.
2013 Bau-Xi , Vancouver, BC.
2012 Newzones, Calgary, AB.
Galerie De Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.
Bau-Xi Photo, Toronto, ON.
2011 Bau-Xi , Vancouver, BC.
2010 Bau-Xi Photo, Toronto, ON.
Galerie De Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.
Newzones, Calgary, AB.
2009 Susan Street Gallery, San Diego, CA.
Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, ON.
2008 Newzones, Calgary, AB.
Galerie De Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.
Galerie St. Laurent + Hill, Ottawa, ON.
Alan Avery Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, ON.
Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID.
Museum Exhibitions
2010 Griffin Museum, Boston, MA.
2008 Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB.
Selected Corporate Collections
Microsoft - Lincoln Square • Hilton Hotels • Target Canada Corporation • Elgan Corporation • Huntertdon • Ryerson University • Maple Leaf • McCarthy Tetraul • Le Cirque du Soleil • Transcontinental • BCF • Heenan-Blackie • Rogan Investment Management
Press
PRESS
Selected Artworks
Washing Away with You (Mexico)
Archival Inkjet Print on Plexiglass
41 x 33 inches
190321
Heading Out (Whistler, Canada)
Archival Inkjet Print on Plexiglass
58 x 77 inches
180052
Falling into the Blue (Sicily)
Archival Inkjet Print on Plexiglass
30 x 40 inches
180051
Soaking in Summer (Tel Aviv)
Archival Inkjet Print on Plexiglass
30 x 31.5 inches
170561
Education
2003 BFA, Ryerson University, Image Arts, Photographic Studies
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2018 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA.
2017 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2016 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA.
Galerie De Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.
Bau-Xi, Vancouver, BC.
Newzones, Calgary AB.
Galerie De Medicis, Paris, France.
2015 Bau-Xi Photo, Toronto, ON.
Galerie De Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.
2014 Bau-Xi Photo, Toronto ON.
Newzones, Calgary, AB.
2013 Bau-Xi Photo, Toronto, ON.
Bau-Xi Photo, Toronto, ON.
2013 Bau-Xi , Vancouver, BC.
2012 Newzones, Calgary, AB.
Galerie De Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.
Bau-Xi Photo, Toronto, ON.
2011 Bau-Xi , Vancouver, BC.
2010 Bau-Xi Photo, Toronto, ON.
Galerie De Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.
Newzones, Calgary, AB.
2009 Susan Street Gallery, San Diego, CA.
Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, ON.
2008 Newzones, Calgary, AB.
Galerie De Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.
Galerie St. Laurent + Hill, Ottawa, ON.
Alan Avery Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, ON.
Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID.
Museum Exhibitions
2010 Griffin Museum, Boston, MA.
2008 Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB.
Selected Corporate Collections
Microsoft - Lincoln Square • Hilton Hotels • Target Canada Corporation • Elgan Corporation • Huntertdon • Ryerson University • Maple Leaf • McCarthy Tetraul • Le Cirque du Soleil • Transcontinental • BCF • Heenan-Blackie • Rogan Investment Management
Biography
Contemporary photographer, Joshua Jensen-Nagle captures scenes of leisure from a distance, often from high above, transforming people on beaches and ski-slopes into toy-like figures against sublime natural backdrops. Both of his ongoing series Endless Summer and Winter show people as colorful specks clustered on long stretches of sand or snow like abstract elements. His immersive, cinematic, large-scale photos invite viewers to lose themselves in the crowd and the striking landscape, sparking associations that might resemble the artist’s own memories of “childhood summers spent along the New Jersey shore and winters in the Poconos.”
In the tradition of photographers like Thomas Struth and Andreas Gursky, Jensen-Nagle’s images reveal arresting visual patterns in the everyday world and create dramatic shifts in perspective that show humans completely enveloped by their environment. Viewing photography as a “means to evoke emotion rather than document a reality,” he has spent a decade traveling the globe in search of beachscapes dotted with bathers and mountainscapes sprinkled with skiers to turn into compelling images, often hanging out of helicopters to capture his birds-eye views.
Based in Toronto, Jensen-Nagle has mounted over fifty exhibitions in the last dozen years across North America and Europe, including at the Griffin Museum in Boston and the Glenbow Museum in Calgary. He has placed his photographs in numerous private and corporate collections including Microsoft, MasterCard International, Cirque De Soliel, Transcontinental, Target and Hilton Hotels, and has seen his work featured in a variety of publications, including Art In America, Canadian Art, Fashion and Harper’s.
Press
Joshua Jensen-Nagle
“My work over the past several years has explored the use of photography as a medium to create. Whether it is SX-70 Polaroid, photographic prints painted and then re-photographed, or shooting with the latest digital technology, I understand photography as a means to create rather than to document a reality, allowing the viewer to bring their own associations to the work.”