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Work
Josh Kline's work often focuses on life in the 21st century, and how technological advancements affect society, human behavior, and the planet. In his solo exhibition entitled Civil War, Kline comments on the potential consequences of socio-political phenomenons such as mass unemployment and the implications of artificial intelligence. In 2016, Kline presented an exhibition entitled Unemployment, which focused on the dismal affects of the future of automation of the workforce. Kline's work depicted the stories of laid-off professionals, and the crisis that ensued. The exhibition also displayed a patch-work of Amazon boxes, smiling at the viewer. These boxes represent the growing automation of the industry, and how it is negatively affecting professionals now, and will have even worse consequences in the future.

In his most recent work, Climate Change: Part One, Kline offers a glance into the future if the behaviors of society do not change. Kline creates rooms, sculpture, and tanks that depict the result of droughts, fires, greenhouse gases, faster winds, and other environmental hazards that wreck havoc on the world. Through this exhibit and others, Kline calls into question the effects of rapid globalization and technological advancement of society.

Exhibitions
Josh Kline and Anicka Yi Loveless Marriages April 9 - May 3, 2010 @179 Canal

Josh Kline Dignity and Self-Respect November 4 – December 18, 2011

Josh Kline QUALITY OF LIFE September 03 – October 13, 2013

Josh Kline New Pictures of Common Objects October 21 2012- April 14 2013, MoMA

Josh Kline Skittles 2014, The High Line, New York

Josh Kline Packing for Peanuts (Fedex Worker's Head With Knit Cap) 2014, MoMA

Josh Kline Freedom August 22- October 18, 2015 New Museum, NY

Josh Kline Unemployment May 3 – June 12, 2016 47 Canal

Josh Kline Civil War 2017, MoCa Cleveland

Josh Kline Your Driver is Here 2017 MoMA

Works by Gregory Edwards, Josh Kline, Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho, and Anicka Yi May 29 – June 22, 2018 @47 Canal

Josh Kline New Order: Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century March 17- June 15, 2019, MoMA

Josh Kline Climate Change: Part One April 27 – June 9, 2019

Materials
Josh Kline is known for using a variety of materials to create sculptures, prints, paintings, and videos. For his 2014 installation, Skittles, Kline worked with a commercial fridge, a light box, and blended liquids in bottles to create a piece that comments on the toxic popularity of unnatural products used commonly in society today. In another display, entitled Your Driver is Here (2017) Kline cast sculptures in silicone and paired them with plastic bags, shopping carts, and LED lights to highlight the sheer amount consumer waste produced daily, and how it is damaging the world. Kline's innovative work becomes more and more advanced as new technology becomes available. Kline implements three 3D-printed sculptures covered in plaster inside boxes filled with packing peanuts in his work Packing for Peanuts (Fedex Worker's Head With Knit Cap) (2014).

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