Joshua Citarella

Joshua Citarella (b. 1987, New York) is an artist, writer, and internet culture researcher. He holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts (2010) and has taught at SVA, Rhode Island School of Design, and served as outside advisor at Carnegie Mellon and Tufts. He is the host of the podcast Doomscroll and founder of Do Not Research, a collectively edited publication on internet culture. His work tracks the formation of political subcultures across social media platforms — from the irony-poisoned post-left to the online far right — mapping how memes, group chats, and algorithmic feeds shape political consciousness among teenagers and young adults. Collections include the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth. Solo exhibitions at Carroll/Fletcher London, Higher Pictures New York, Corcoran School of the Arts Washington DC. Group exhibitions at the New Museum, The Photographers’ Gallery London, Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, and The Armory Show. Press coverage in The New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Artforum, and Rolling Stone. Homepage: joshuacitarella.com

Selected Bibliography
Citarella, Joshua. Politigram and the Post-Left. N.p.: Blurb, 2018; expanded ed., 2021.
Citarella, Joshua. 20 Interviews. N.p.: Blurb, 2021.
Do Not Research: 2021–2022, 2022–2023, 2024. Annual anthologies.
Citarella, Joshua. “We Need New Platforms to Tell New Stories.” In The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet. Dark Forest Collective / Metalabel, 2023.