Joshua Soenario


About

MOVING IMAGE
Slimy & Sticky
Big Bellied Snail

BOOK
In Between
Slow or Slower
Joshua Soenario (b. 2003) is an Australian-born artist based between London and Shanghai. He works across photography, moving image, writing, and performative staging, while exploring the themes of identity, diaspora, postcolonialism, and psychoanalysis. He draws on his lived experience of absence and trauma to reappear the juxtapostion of self-analysis and self-consumption.

His process often begins with ruptures and fragments—diary writing, recorded dialogues, and research into genealogical and collective histories—before unfolding into image-making and constructed scenes. Recently, his practice has engaged more closely with Jungian psychoanalysis, drawing on the dynamics between the unconscious and the collective unconscious to think through how images, affects, and archetypal forms return and become vitalised over time. Moving between documentary encounters and speculative myth-making, Soenario builds non-linear narratives where trauma is approached as an ongoing trace, and identity remains unstable, unfinished, and continuously negotiated.










CV
ExhibitionsAT THE THRESHOLD OF THE SELF
London College of Communication
2026

PROCESS, RITUAL & IMAGE
London College of Communication
2026

LANDSLIDE
Copeland Gallery
London, UK
2025

T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL TOKYO
Tokyo, Japan
2024

SIGNATURE VIII
Wuhan Photography Art Centre
Wuhan, China
2024

PHOTOBOOK EXHIBITION
Photobookcafe
London, UK
2024


AwardsSIGNATURE VIII; Wuhan
2024



PublicationTheatre of Plasticity: The Topologies of Contemporary Photography
Beijing Fine Arts & Photography Publishing House
2025



CurationAT THE THRESHOLD OF THE SELF
London College of Communication
2026

PROCESS, RITUAL & IMAGE
London College of Communication
2026



EducationLondon College of Communication (UAL) (London)
2023-2026
BA (Hons) Photography






Contact
joshuasoenario@gmail.com
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Last Updated 14th April 2026
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