With a sensitive awareness to the impact spaces have on our perception, Joshua works between sculpture, carving of space, functional objects, architecture, conceptual ideas in the public sphere, land-use, and site-based installation. He grew up on a small cattle ranch. His first experiences of space were endless horizons, open sky, and high desert plains of the Rocky Mountains. Isolation, harsh landscape, and the sense of place from the spatial perception of horse, saddle, foot, land, and sun have all been formative in his inspiration, research, identity, and work.

Joshua received his MFA From Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2005. He served as Assistant Professor of Art at Concordia University in Ann Arbor in 2005-2007. He served as lecturer for the University of Michigan School of Art and Design. from 2007-2010. In 2010 Joshua moved back to Wyoming pursuing the driving interest and conceptual subject of his studio research. He presently operates a studio practice on a site just north of Rawlins Wyoming.

Joshua is the owner and operator of Smith Studio Works LLC, a sculpture, public art, architectural ironwork, fabrication and furniture studio. He and his partner Sarah, also are building an all natural and all grass-based livestock project on a small cattle ranch. They continue to develop an ongoing project of harvesting the suns renewable energy through the grass grazed by cattle, where grazing management and land conservation are reciprocal, Uplift Grass Works.