Bio
John Felix Arnold (b. Durham, NC) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice employs a wide range of media, focusing on the intersection of drawing, sculpture, installation, and movement research. His work uses alchemy and draws on critical and material histories to explore place, and myth-making. Using found and vernacular materials he complicates and reimagines traditional notions of monument and landscape. He holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (25’) and a BFA from Pratt Institute (02’). He has exhibited and presented at SFMOMA, Nasher Museum of Art, The Ackland Museum of Art, B.R.I.C. Arts, The Luggage Store Gallery, Tiger Strikes Asteroid NY, Anchorlight, and Spes-Lab Experimental Art Space Tokyo. He has been in residence with The Center for Study of the American South, Wassaic Projects, Cassilhaus, Duke University’s Rubenstein Visiting Artist Program, and the Peter Bullogh Foundation. He has received a Southern Futures Fellowship, UNC Teaching Fellowship, UNC Wilson Library Incubator Award, Southern Oral History Program Award, Duke University Arts Commission, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Covid 19 Emergency Grant, and Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Public Art Grant. His work has been collected by the Duke University Rubenstein Arts Center, UNC Chapel Hill Sloane Art Library, and Kai Kai Ki Ki Ltd. He is a former contributing writer for the Coastal Post and has written for Border Crossing Magazine.