Josh Wald, is a multi-disciplined artist who works and lives between New York, and Lisbon. His work fuses high fashion, and subculture, with a bold rock and roll expression that blurs the line between elegance and rebellion.

Josh, was raised in Cape Cod, and moved to New York after graduating college and fell into work as a fashion model in the summer of 1998. His quick success pushed him to go deeper into the fashion industry, signed by IMG he embarked on a 26 year long career as an international model. He traveled the world and working for brands such as Giorgio Armani, Salvatore Ferragamo, Versace, Dolce &  Gabbana, D&G, Carlo Pignatelli, Brunello Cucinelli, Canali, Paul Smith, Gianfranco Ferre, Nautica, Liz Claiborne, DKNY, Esprit, Kenneth Cole, John Varvatos, Victoria Secret, Bloomingdale's, Barneys, Saks Fifth Avenue, and many more.

He’s worked with global icons such as Gisele Bundchen, Heidi Klum, Salma Hayek, Christy Turlington, Annie Leibovitz, Richard Avedon, Peter Lindbergh, Mario Testino, Steven Meisel, Bruce Weber, Paolo Roversi, Tim Walker, Terry Richardson, and many others.

Josh has been featured in publications such as GQ, Esquire, Details, Maxim, Vogue, L’uomo Vogue, Vanity Fair, Numero, Men’s Journal, Men’s Health, Forbes, The New Yorker, Men’s Style, Men’s Wear, Out, Playboy, among others.

He is also self-taught musician, he writes, sings, produces, mixes, and plays all of the standard instruments, as well as some unconventional. He owned and ran his own professional music studio in Williamsburg, BK from 2007 to 2020, where he briefly did jingles for; Kenneth Cole, DKNY, The Children’s Place, Macy’s, Ann Taylor, and Clarks Shoes, before deciding to embed himself instead on his own solo projects.

With his first in 2007, Mama’s Boy Goes Digital, Of Hearts. He co-wrote, produced and sang on the project with featured singer and guest, Rachel Platten. Then further released three of his own albums under the name, 'Dream Louise' after his late grandmother, Dream Louise (self-titled), Synth-Etic, and Epiph-O-Matic.

His 26 years spent with music, and skating the streets of New York mixed with his high-fashion career and his love for home design has shaped a unique creative narrative—one deeply informed by high society as well as subcultural, and the street. These conflicting influences often battle each other and yet are the batter that comprise and inspires his work.

His first collection relied heavily on collage, sewing, and “push paintings”  (a type of mono print) In 2018, Josh was asked by an employee of Chuck Close to put together a body of work for a show. Twenty five pieces blessed the halls of the Solo show titled, Misphits. It ran a block long, at the New Stand, on the Bowery in New York, NY (in what was the old Patricia Fields). Wall art, “Push Paintings'', sculpture, multimedia, and an audio/video installation were present in the space. The collection explored the exploitations of subculture through the eyes of punk rock, and grunge, an all-too-familiar subject for the avid skateboarder turned fashion model, musician/artist.

Covid in New York put a pause to Josh’s art career as it did for many. It wasn’t until he moved to Lisbon and found the perfect art studio in the Principe Real area that he began a new collection. A 2025 group show at the, High Field Conservatory, Cape Cod with Jeremy Wagner, and Jiyoung Park Wagner kicked off this new momentum. Josh’s new collection of large-scale works is titled, ‘Becoming’- a visual observance of identity can be viewed in the Lisbon studio.

His art invites viewers into a world where identity, rebellion, and beauty collide.

“A heck of a guy”, says Nicole Hitchins of Source Studios.

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