Joshua White (artist)

Joshua White
Born	December, 1942 New York
Nationality	American
Education	Carnegie Tech USC Film School
Known for	Joshua Light Show

Joshua White (born 1942) is an American artist, video maker and broadcast television director. Best known for The Joshua Light Show, a 1960s and 1970s liquid light show, his work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and has been exhibited at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, the New Museum, Hayden Planetarium, Barbican Center and the Centre Pompidou as well as many other venues.

Born in December 1942, Joshua White's parents were first generation American Jews whose families fled Russia to escape the Czarist pogroms. His father, Lawrence White (né Weiss) was a successful radio and television producer. White attended Elizabeth Irwin High School in New York's Greenwich Village, a haven for left wing intellectuals during the time of McCarthyism. White often spent afternoons at the MoMA, where he became particularly fascinated by a small kinetic sculpture titled Vertical Sequence II, Opus 137, 1941, a "Lumia" by the self taught artist Thomas Wilfred (1889-1968).

After attending Carnegie Tech Drama School and USC Film School, White returned to New York where he found work on exploitation films such as Girl on a Chain Gang,I was a Teenage Mother and Who Killed Teddy Bear?, starring Sal Mineo.

In 1965, White apprenticed himself to Bobb Goldsteinn, who presented a weekly series of loft parties featuring lights, a mirror ball, slides and films all projected on multiple screens. In 1966, White formed a company with Kip Cohen, John Morris, Thomas Shoesmith and William Schwarzbach called "Sensefex". In addition to discotheques, they designed industrial shows for Dupont, IBM, and Time-Life, and a fashion show for dress designer Tiger Morse, staged in the swimming pool of the Henry Hudson Hotel.

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