Joshua Woods (b. 1986, Harlem, New York) is a photographer and visual artist based between New York and Paris. His work moves between photography, fashion, material construction, and Printmaking, challenging fixed ideas of Black life and representation while drawing from the textures of everyday culture, memory, and ritual.
Woods first gained recognition with his self-funded photographic journal of Senegal, published in The New Yorker. He has become known for a practice that blends social observation with a refined visual language, creating images and objects that invite deeper reflection on identity and place.
A British Fashion Council New Wave Creative, Woods has produced editorial and commercial work for Vogue, W Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, Dazed, AnOther Magazine, Wall Street Journal, M Le Monde, The New York Times T Magazine, Chanel, Gucci, Lanvin, Wales Bonner, Ralph Lauren, and others. In 2025 he collaborated with The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Costume Institute for the exhibition Superfine, creating portraits of the public and hosting a community gathering that centered on shared authorship and collective presence.
His ongoing projects include a long term body of work in Harlem that traces personal and communal histories while exploring transformation, preservation, and belonging.
Studio
info@joshuawoodsphotography.com
Studio Manager
halle@joshuawoodsstudio.com
shows / Talks
Studio Museum of Harlem - Expanding the walls - Talk/Studio Visit -July 2024
Anthony Gallery - Gumbo August 2023 (Group Show)
Anthology Archive Theartre - No Place like home film screening/with Onyx Collective - april 2023 NY
Le Bal Gallery - No Place like home film screening/jazzshow with Onyx Collective - Paris Sept 2022
Faces of harlem public photo show Harlem, New York - August 2022
No Place like home film screening/jazzshow with Onyx Collective - tribeca synagogue -July 2022
B.A.M. Public art show 2022 MLK Tribute curated by Larry Ossei Mensah (Group Show)
Aperture - New Black Vanguard curated by Antwaun Sargent - Arles 2021 (Group Show)
drawing a blank Curated by Ben Broome - paris 2020 (Group Show)
La Sorbonne University Paris, France - Introductory course on Cultural studies mFA students. Nov 2020
just pictures curated by Antwaun Sargent - projects+gallery St Louis, Missouri - 2019 (Group Show)
studio musuem of harlem - post card series 2019
Aperture Gallery - new Black vanguard curated by Antwaun Sargent 2019 (Group Show)
Drawing a blank Curated by Ben Broome - London (Group SHow) - 2019
Red Hook Labs - Emerging Photographers Panel - 2019
Belfast Photo festival, i-d magazine 2019 (Group Show)
open studios accra ghana A cultural catalog from then til now (Solo Show) - Jan 2021
Press
Elle Decor - Top 7 Artist at Armory Art Fair
New Yorker Magazine Photo Booth - Harlem captures the distinct style of Senegal