Faculty

John Roach is an interdisciplinary artist with a particular interest in sound. His practice is fluid and responds to his working conditions, resulting in artworks that can take many forms. Recent installations include multichannel immersive audio, performance, video, image and object-making, writing, and scientific techniques related to biology and chemistry. He has collaborated with glass blowers, coders, scientists, percussionists, and poets, and values the impact that working with others can have on the final outcome of a project. His artwork has been exhibited in both domestic and international venues, and he has been an artist in residence at numerous organizations, including Triangle Artist Workshop, The Glazenhuis Museum, The Marble House Project, and most recently, Zion National Park.

John has taught a wide variety of courses at Parsons since 2002, ranging from pre-college to graduate, in multiple programs and schools. He is currently the Associate Dean of First Year in the School Of Art & Design History & Theory.

MFA - Hunter College

BFA - Rutgers University

Books and catalogues  

2018  Half Life. Machines/ Organisms, Artistic Positions in the context of Climate Change and Extinction. Käthe Wenzel/Manfred Blohm (eds.) Fabrico Verlag Hannover, 2018. 

2017  The Internal Machine, New York Center for Book Arts. Exhibition Catalogue

2017  Ocean Imaginaries, RMIT Gallery. Exhibition Catalogue.

2014 Odd Volumes: Book Art from the Allan Chasanoff Collection. Exhibition Catalogue.

2012 Architectural inventions – Visionary Drawing Building. Matt Bua and Maximillian Goldfarb. Laurence King Publishing, 

2011 Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves, Galen Joseph-Hunter, Penny Duff, Maria Papadomanolaki. PAJ Publications.

2006 Blur of the Otherworldly: Contemporary Art, Technology, And the Paranormal Alice Durant and Jane D. Marsching. Exhibition Catalogue Center for Art and Visual Culture, UMBC Center. Exhibition Catalog.