MFA, Studio Art, SUNY Buffalo 
MFA, Creative Writing, The University of Iowa
BA, Hobart College (Summa Cum Laude)

Joshua Unikel has shown at the 2022 AIGA National Conference; Dubai Art Season 2020 (UAE); Sofia Art Week 2019 (Bulgaria); Griffith University Art Gallery (Australia); DesignPhiladelphia; The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit; The Center for Contemporary Printmaking; and elsewhere.

He is the co-editor of Beyond Category (Hobart and William Smith Colleges Press, 2015) and has been published in The Iowa Review, Western Humanities Review, The Collagist, Tupelo Quarterly, The Journal, Sonora Review, [PANK], TriQuarterly, The Essay Review, Fugue, The Normal School, Essay Daily and other national journals.

His work has been acquired by Yale’s Beinecke Library; The Library of Congress’ Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection; the Getty’s Research Institute; the Poetry Foundation; Center for Book Arts (NYC); Letterform Archive; U Penn’s Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts; and elsewhere.

Unikel has lectured at Typecon, AIGA Design Educators Conference (DEC), ReVIEWING Black Mountain College Conference, AWP, NonfictioNOW, and elsewhere. His work has been supported by residencies at AGA Lab (The Netherlands); World of Co (Bulgaria); and DesignInquiry, where he was a two-time fellow. He was also a 2022 AIGA DEC Design & Writing Fellow.

Expertise: Typography, Book Design, Print, Design as Social Engagement, Visual Essay, Text-and-Image, Analog/digital print media, Creative Writing.