Josh Short

Dreams from the nightmare, we keep waking up into. Take a ride with me. ~J.
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GUIDED BY VOICES

“Rock n’ Roll is the straight truth about how to have soul.”
~Wolfman Jack

"rock & roll isn't even music really. It's a mistreating of instruments to get feelings over."
~Mark E. Smith
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FEATURED ARTWORKS 

2024
Gators
Tabletop Disco Balls
Doris
2023
Taosburg
Cardboard City
Supplie Chain Issues
2022
Outside the Box
Material Handling
2019
Speed Trials Arcade JH
Under the Stars
2018
Bomb Shelter Radio SF
BSR Motel Tour
Speed Trials Arcade Memphis
2017
Wildcard aka. The River
WILDONE 66 USA 
2016
Lucille Valentine
BSR Omaha
2015
BSR MonsterTruck
These Are My Friends
BSR Memphis
2014
Going to Church
N.W.P.S.O.C.LLC

First Spring
2013
Aura of a V8
Trudge CIT
2012
Cardburg 2012
BSR/Tenderloin self defense Club
2011
Stronghold 2
Control Room Systems
Sub-terrian
Tailgate Party
Black Gold
2010
Break In Case of Emergency
Cardburg 500 CIT Touchdown Jesus
Bomb Shelter Radio Mach 2
2009
Josh’s Garage



"rock & roll isn't even music really. It's a mistreating of instruments to get feelings over." ~Mark E. Smith

INFORMATION

Josh Lives in Vallejo, California. USA
He is the guardian of 2 Boston Terriers and a murderous orange cat named Kittenski
Josh identifies as an “Artist”...get that straight he is an “Artist”.











Josh Short is an interdisciplinary artist that uses sound, installation, and broadcasting to create immersive experiences that frame contemporary American mythologies and rituals. Machines, pirate radio, and cultural detritus are used to create interactive environments to let the viewer explore their inner desires, breaking the internal dialog we carry with us into everyday life.  Notably his recent project, The Speed Trials Arcade, merges remote controlled vehicles, exercise equipment, and radio to create analog driving simulators that explore the uniquely American relationship to automobiles, and the supply chain. Josh is also the founder of the Cardboard Institute of Technology, a collaborative group that creates immersive installations completely out of cardboard. Josh is also the founder of Bomb Shelter Radio, an ongoing Radio project that creates temporary low powered FM radio encounters all over the country. Often these projects take the form of site specific installations that utilize materials gathered from the local environment. In 2019 Josh started www.BombShelterRadio.live a 24 hour online element of his radio practice. He performs weekly live broadcasts.

After graduating with an MFA from UC Davis in 2009 Josh was awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, and a graduate fellowship at the Headlands Center for the Arts in 2010. Josh has had several solo exhibits at venues including the Bedford Gallery, Johansson Projects, The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and the Exploratorium. Josh has been an resident artist at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Yaddo, Joan Mitchell Center, and Crosstown Arts. He regularly tours the country operating his mobile radio station “the Lucille Valentine” and as of 2024 he is building a new FM radio broadcasting station out of a 1968 Cadillac Coupe Deville named Doris. 













NEWS


11/24/2024
Cadillac Coupe Deville Update. Got the timing and tuning down. We replaced the excellerator pump in the Quadrajet carburator. That helped a lot with the hills. She was stalling out a bunch. We also tightened up the fuel lines from the fuel pump.  We’re developing a plan to paint her later this summer.

10/29/2024
Got news from the Matrix that a proposal we were working on got excepted. We’ll be building a site specific sculpture for an ATS conference later in the spring. Me and a couple other alumni Recology Artists have teamed up as the “Recovery Crew” to build a 20” sculpture for the moscone center. 

6/19/2024
Cadillac Coupe Deville update. Got a HEI Distributor  installed. I learned how to find the 1st Cylinder, and the proper firing order for the old 472 big block engines, now we have to fine tune the timing. 

6/5/2024 
Cadillac Coupe Deville update. After several days of wrenching, penetrating oil, and grinding, I was able to remove the exhaust manifold and replace the gasket. We’ll finally get a chance to tune in properly. 

5/30/2024
Cadillac Coupe Deville update, new wheels installed. We’re now working on changing a gasket in the passenger side exhaust maniford. Belts have been tightened. Looking forward to two months off to do some more work on the interior and body.

5/21/2024
Did the Season Finale of The TERRORDOME on Bomb Shelter Radio. We’ll be back with a new season sometime in August.

5/6/2024 
Did an Artist Talk at Sierra College in Nevada City. I covered some topics including cardboard sculpture, travel, radio, getting art into the world, art as a lifestyle, and adulting.  

4/20/2024
Cadillac Coupe DeVille update, Interior is done. New wheels are in the mail. We’ll get those on over the next couple of weeks. 


4/6/2024
It’s my one year aniversery at my Job here at CSU Cal Maritime, so far so good, I really dig running a Makerspace, I get to make stuff all day long in the shop and I don’t have to give grades.


7/15/2023 
Taveled to Texas to get married to Courtney aka Lady Fingerpop, then traveled to Taos NM to create Taosburg at the Imagine Museum.


5/15/2023 
Did a special presentation of the Supply Chain Issues at the Annual Headlands Center for the Arts Art Auction.