Joseph Canizales

Joseph Antonio Canizales was born in Miami, Florida. In 2016 he graduated from Design and Architecture Senior High in Miami, where he studied Industrial Design. In 2020 he graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI) with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in Sculpture. As a student there he was a technician at David T. Beals Studio, where he assisted and mentored KCAI’s student body with the usage of CAD and CAM processes. He is a recipient of the 2018 McKeown Grant, allowing him to travel to national parks in Utah to study their topography and geology, furthering his studio practice. He attended the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art, a prestigious program for juniors going into their senior year. He is currently attending Washington University in St. Louis, where he will earn his MFA in Visual Art in 2022. His artwork is influenced by natural and geological formations. His goal is to reveal a new perspective on our natural world through emerging technologies. He wants you to compare the natural elements that he didn’t create and then see how is unveiling a new structural understanding of them.