Josh Cabello

About

b. 1997   —   Josh Cabello is a visual artist, curator, and drag queen born and based in Los Angeles. He graduated from Brown University in 2019 with an A.B. in both Visual Art and English. He has exhibited at venues including the RISD Museum, Providence, RI; the Cohen Gallery, Providence, RI; Rare Cafe, Los Angeles, CA; and performed in the LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA. His solo show, Extra New Topographics, at the List Arts Center in RI, led him to receive the Belsky-Moranis award. He most recently curated a group show, titled Like Water, at SoLA Contemporary in Los Angeles June 2021. Through his drag persona, Sunset Blush, he explores traditional binaries as sites of play. Drawing on everything from art history to contemporary modes of queerness, his practice is deeply rooted in using aesthetics and frivolity as revolutionary tools. He explores a variety of mediums as meditative tools to access the subconscious, believing that our complex interiors hold the keys to our collective liberation. Sunset Blush’s world plays with beauty, flamboyance, and far-out fantasy; she looks forward to a future where every bitch can feel their fantasy too.