Joshua Neustein

Joshua Neustein (born 1940) is a contemporary visual artist. He lives and works in New York City. He is known primarily for his Conceptual Art, environmental installations, Land Art, Ash Cities, and postminimalist torn paper works and large-scale map paintings.

Neustein was born in Danzig (Gdańsk, Poland). After studying painting at the Pratt Institute in New York City, Neustein immigrated to Jerusalem in 1964. He began to show regularly in Israel and the UK, but it was his 1971 Jerusalem River Project (collaboration with Gerry Marx and Georgette Batlle) action, a site-specific "sound sculpture" in which speakers installed across a desert valley played looped sounds of a river, that earned him more widespread recognition. Photo documentation of the piece was shown at the Israel Museum, Yvon Lambert Gallery in Paris, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MOCA LA, Tokyo Museum of Art, MAK Vienna and MACBA. During the same period, Neustein built an oeuvre of large torn paper works that received critical attention.