Meet the Curator
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Josh Berkowitz
Joshua Berkowitz currently serves as The Lab on Santa Fe's Founder and Artistic Director and has over 15 years experience creating performance art and experimental film. His launch into the avant-garde medium started with his role in the World Premiere of Jonesin’ at the Arthur Miller Theater. His portrayal of the stream-of-consciousness meth-addict poet Cheese earned him a full-ride scholarship for his final two years at University of Michigan Drama School. His most famous experimental film “Shame, Compassion and Defence” features Berkowitz playing all five characters on a baseball field in the dead of winter, including his mother and father. In 2016, Berkowitz started curating performance art at Electric Lodge in Venice Beach and became Co-Artistic Director, designing over 50 productions in less than 3 years. During this time, he would also drive up to Ventura, CA every month to work under his 83-year old mentor John M. White, a master of both abstract painting and a legend in the performance art world. In August 2022, he founded The Lab on Santa Fe, one of the only galleries generating live original performance in all of Denver. The newest and wildest work in this space occurred in March of 2024, entitled “Doubt and its Double” where he built an abstract tennis court and played tennis against his own inner neurotic landscape. Berkowitz is expanding these ideas into the 40 West Arts District, with a long-term residency at The Three Leaches Theater and has been asked to make all visual art decisions in this venue and will also be devising three original productions over the next year, officially coining this space The Lab off Colfax. The Lab on Santa Fe will continue running its space in the Santa Fe Arts District and has just hit its two-year anniversary.