John Felix Arnold
John Felix Arnold (b. 1980, Durham, NC), is an American contemporary artist whose multi-disciplinary practice employs a wide range of media, with a focus on the intersection of drawing, sculpture, installation, sound and movement research. His work explores themes of movement and the body, critical history, myth making, material histories and use, alchemy, and personal narrative. He received a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY (02’), and is currently in the MFA Studio Art Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (25’). He has exhibited and presented at SFMOMA, Nasher Museum of Art, B.R.I.C. House, The Luggage Store Gallery, Anchorlight, Aggregate Space, and Spes-Lab Experimental Art Space Tokyo. He has been in residence with Duke University’s Rubenstein Visiting Artist Program, Cassilhaus, and the Peter Bullogh Foundation. He has received a Southern Futures Fellowship, U.N.C. Wilson Library Incubator Award, U.N.C. Southern Oral History Program Artist Award, Duke University Arts Grant, 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, The U.N.C. 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.
