• "Wu Tsang & boychild"
  by Tess Altman, BOMB, 2017
• Cover, Artforum, May/June 2020
• "Tosh Basco Finds Catharsis through Mark-Making"
  by Brit Barton, Frieze, 2022
• "Tosh Basco"
  profile by Matthew Mclean, Flash Art, 2022
• "Portrait: Tosh Basco"
  by Geoffrey Mak, Spike Magazine, 2022
• ​​​​​​​"Tosh Basco: The Real is a Feeling"
  interview with Matto Magazine, 2022
• ​​​​​​​"Tosh Basco: Holding Space"
  interview with X Zhu-Nowell, Kaleidoscope Magazine, 2022

b. 1988, USA; lives and works in Zurich

2018 MA Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

Selected Solo Shows

2024
Field of Feels, Company Gallery, New York

2023
No Sky, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai

2021
Grief Series, Karma International, Zurich
Portaits, Still Lifes and Flowers, Carlos/Ishikawa, London
Angels, Hand Dances and Prayers, Company Gallery, New York

2019
Hand dances. A 1,000 caresses., Carlos/Ishikawa, London

Selected Performances

2024
Moved by the Motion: Carmen, Schauspielhaus, Zurich, Switzerland; Royal Theatre Carré, Amsterdam (The Holland Festival)

2023
to be in a time of war, Water Street Projects, New York
Moved by the Motion Presents: Solo-Performances by Josh Johnson & Tosh Basco, Schauspielhaus, Zurich
Moved by the Motion: Pinocchio, Schauspielhaus, Zurich; Wiener Festwochen (Vienna Festival), Volkstheater, Vienna

2022
Untitled Duet (the storm called progress), Gropius Bau, Berlin
Art in a Day, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Moved by the Motion: MOBY DICK: or, The Whale, 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Teatro Goldoni, Venice; Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago; The Holland Festival, Amsterdam; De Singel, Antwerp; The Shed, New York; Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; The Performance Project, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Luma Foundation, Arles, France; Schauspielhaus, Zurich; amongst others
Untitled b-side, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco

2021
Sol Invictus, Fondazione Marconi, Milan and Istituto Svizzero, Rome
Tosh Basco: No Sky, Serpentine Park Nights, Serpentine Gallery, London
Moved by the Motion: Orpheus, Schauspielhaus, Zurich
The Band and Friends, Transmissions TV (Screening)

2020
Moved by the Motion: Composition II Schauspielhaus, Zurich
Untitled Duet (the storm called progress), Gropus Bau, Berlin
Moved by the Motion: Composition I, Schauspielhaus, Zurich

2019
Untitled hand dance, Tramway, Glasgow
Borders between Mathematics, Gestures and Dance with Fernando Zalamea Tramway, Glasgow
Together with Korakrit Arunanondchai, Performa 19, New York
Moved by the Motion: Sudden Rise with Wu Tsang, Patrick Belaga, Josh Johnson and Asma Maroof, Schauspielhaus, Zurich
Untitled hand dance, Meetings on Art, Venice Biennale, Venice
Moved by the Motion: Sudden Rise with Wu Tsang, Patrick Belaga, Josh Johnson and Asma Maroof, Museum of American Art, New York
Hand dances. A 1,000 caresses., Carlos/Ishikawa, London

2018
Untitled Lipsync, GHOST Triennial, Bangkok
Moved by the Motion: Sudden Rise with Wu Tsang, Patrick Belaga, Josh Johnson and Asma Maroof, EMPAC, The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Troy, New York
Untitled Lipsync: Rubfall, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
In Conversation: Dance of Darkness with Jack Halberstam, Move, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Untitled Lipsync (for Ana Mendieta), Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
Untitled Lipsync, Parkingstone, Le Trebendo, Paris
In Conversation, Feel Philosophies with Jack Halberstam, Stedelijk, Amsterdam

2017
In Conversation: Dance of Darkness, with Jack Halberstam, Counterpulse, San Francisco
Moved by the Motion: Spooky Distancing, with Wu Tsang, BOFFO Fire Island Performance Festival, Fire Island Pines, New York
Moved by the Motion: Anchoritic Cell and Cause, with Wu Tsang, Parcours Art Basel, Basel
Anchoress with Wu Tsang, Parcours Art Basel, Basel
Echo Lake (Frontbend, Berghain, Berlin
In Conversation, Foundation Lafayette, National Archives, Paris

2016
Untitled Lipsync: Fugue itive Drag, Touch On, SomArts, San Francisco
Moved by the Motion: You Sad Legend with Wu Tsang, Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneve, Geneva
Untitled Lipsync, (non)performance as method, Athens
Untitled Lipsync #225, Sydney Biennale, Cockatoo Island, Sydney

2015
Eternal Return, Propaganda, Hong Kong
transrachel/death and the telly, Human Resources, Los Angeles
In Conversation, with Wu Tsang, ICA London, London
Moved by the Motion with Wu Tsang, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf
Moved by the Motion with Wu Tsang, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich

2014
Untitled Lipsync , Decolonizing the Museum, MACBA, Barcelona
The Last 3 Years and the Future with Korakrit Arunanondchai, Frieze ICA Off-Site, London
Untitled Lipsync, Berghain, Berlin
Untouchable with Wu Tsang , Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Moved by the Motion with Wu Tsang, MOCA Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles
Moved by the Motion with Wu Tsang, MCA Chicago, Chicago
Untitled Lipsync, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
The Future with Korakrit Arunanondchai , MoMA PS1, New York

2013
Untitled Lipsync, Suzanne Geiss Company, New York
Untitled Lipsync 1-3, Tramway, Glasgow
Untitled rage, “Stand Close, It’s Shorter Than You Think: A show on feminist rage”, The ONE Archives, Los Angeles
Untitled Lipsync , Randy Zine presents: Stop Calling Me Names, MoMA PS1, New York
Untitled fear, Triskaidekaphobia, Curated by AA Bronson, New York

2012
Untitled Lipsync, Performativity: Corporeal, MOCA Los Angeles
Untitled Lipsync, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Untitled Lipsync 4 Cindy, SFMoMA, San Francisco

Selected Group Shows

2025
These branching moments, Fotomuseum (FOMU), Antwerp

2024
MAM Screen 020: Ghost－Intervention, Mori Art Museum, Minato, Japan
Soft Fantasy/Hard Reality, Silverlens, New York

2023
I See No Difference Between a Handshake and a Poem, Mendes Wood DM, Paris
Baroque, Champ Lacombe, Biarritz
New York is for Lovers, CF Hill, Stockholm
Figuration Program, Karma International, Zurich

2022
Skin in the Game, ZDL Projects, Chicago

2021
Skin in the Game, ZDL Projects, Miami
DOG, Company Gallery, New York

2018
UNTITLED Art Fair, San Francisco

2017
From Self to #Selfie, SomArts, San Francisco

2016
DISMISS Freewaves, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Los Angeles

2015
Cookie Gate, Jonathan Ellis King, Dublin

2013
Triskaidekaphobia, Parade Ground, New York

Selected Residencies & Awards

2021 The Gold Art Prize (with: Moved by the Motion)
2018 New Artist Society Scholarship Recipient, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
2018 EMPAC, The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Troy, New York
2017 BOFFO Fire Island, New York
2017 TiltBrush, Paris
2016 Denniston Hill Artist Residency, Glen Wild, New York
2016 EMPAC, The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Troy, New York

Performance/Choreography for Video/Film

2018
No History In A Room Filled With People With Funny Names by Korakrit Arunanondchai, Biennale del’Image en Mouvement (BIM), Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva
Into A Space of Love directed by Wu Tsang, Frieze

2017
We hold where study directed by Wu Tsang, Paratoxic Paradoxes, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece and Kunsthalle Münster, Münster, Germany

2015
Diulian directed by Wu Tsang, Spring Workshop, Hong Kong

2014
A day in the life of bliss, directed by Wu Tsang, Julia Stoschek, Düsseldorf
Letters to Chantri #1 The lady at the door/The gift that keeps giving, by Korakrit Arunanondchai, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles

2013
Untitled, directed by Luke Gilford, BBC Channel 4
CENTER JENNY, by Ryan Trecartin, Venice Biennale, Venice
Untitled, With Matthew Stone

2012
DLIHCYOB, Performativity: Corporeal, directed by Mitch Moore, MOCAtv