Joshi Radin Flores is an artist and writer living in Chicago. Working independently and collaboratively, she generates and examines practices of valuation and questions investigating nature, cosmology and expanded landscape. Drawing on childhood experiences living within an experimental, utopian back to the land community in central New York, Radin traces historical and genealogical roots of utopianism and nature through imagery and processes as spaces of knowledge production. Currently her work focuses on examining nodes of intersection with contemporary theorists engaged with ecological, scientific and anthropological approaches to narrating the global imaginary. Through an engagement with the advent of planetary vision and the recognition of military and technological advances, Radin is interested in propositional narratives of interconnectedness that simultaneously think with and through geopolitical histories. In spite of their failures, Radin's work questions what previous utopianists sought: what might forms of resistance to dominant paradigms of late capitalist modernity look like?
She completed MFA (2016) and MA (2018) degrees in Photography and Visual and Critical Studies as a New Artist Society merit scholar at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her collaborative artist research group with Linda Tegg and Brian M. John, A Program for Plants, received a Shapiro Center EAGER grant for their investigations with plants and empathy. She has performed at Queens Museum, exhibited in the US and abroad, presented at conferences on art and ecology and published essays on art and nature. She had her first solo show of photographic works in the fall of 2017 and held the 2017 Dangler Curatorial Fellowship at The Art Institute of Chicago. She currently lectures in the photography department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.