João Enxuto, Tulane University

João Enxuto

Assistant Professor, Digital Arts
113D Woldenberg Art Center

Education

MFA , Rhode Island School of Design, Photography

Biography

João Enxuto is an interdisciplinary artist, teacher, and writer. He collaborates with the artist Erica Love on projects about creative economies and digital labor. They produce moving-image work, photographic series, sculptures, and live presentations that analyze and/or directly intervene in the structures that govern Contemporary Art. Enxuto received an MFA in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He was a fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, Sommerakademie Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland, and at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). He was twice awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship, and an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Enxuto has performed and exhibited work at the Whitney Museum of Art, New Museum, Walker Art Center, Anthology Film Archives, Carriage Trade, German Pavilion for the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Centre Pompidou, Louisiana Museum in Denmark, Museo Tamayo, and other venues worldwide. Enxuto’s writing has been published by Verso Books, MIT Press, Sternberg Press, Mousse Magazine, Art in America, Walker Artist Op-Eds, Wired Magazine, X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, and elsewhere. His teaching appointments include the Cooper Union, City College New York, The New Centre for Research and Practice, and the Maumaus in Lisbon. Enxuto is on the Board of Advisors for Weird Economies.

 João Enxuto, The Mining Museum, 2018 The Mining Museum, 2018

Steel Plate and mesh, wood, computer server rack, Etherium mining rig (motherboard, three graphics processing units (GPUs), battery, hard drive, Windows OS, mining application) smart contract, web interface, 60 x 27 x 17 inches.

 João Enxuto, Crypto Coffer, 2018 Crypto Coffer, 2018

Thermoplastic hard case, LED monitor, Etherium mining rig (motherboard, three graphics processing units (GPUs), battery, hard drive, Windows OS), smart contract, 21.7 x 14.1 x 8.9 inches.

 João Enxuto, Institute for Southern Contemporary Art (ISCA), 2016 Institute for Southern Contemporary Art (ISCA), 2016

HD video, 15 minutes.

 João Enxuto, still image from Institute for Southern Contemporary Art (ISCA), 2016 Institute for Southern Contemporary Art (ISCA), 2016

HD video, 15 minutes.

 João Enxuto, The Digital Divide (Every LinkNYC in Manhattan), 2018 The Digital Divide, (Every LinkNYC in Manhattan), 2018

Archival inkjet print 12 x 12 inches each, installation variable.

 João Enxuto, 3D printed model from Art Project 2023 3D printed model from Art Project 2023

3D printed model of Marcel Breuer designed Whitney Museum of American Art from Art Project 2023, 2013, gypsum powder, 6.75 x 6.25 x 7.5 inches.

 João Enxuto, Anonymous Painting 3D #V2 GE_N204_01, 2013 Anonymous Painting 3D #V2 GE_N204_01, 2013

Inkjet on cotton, 40 x 36 inches, 2013.