Joe Cimino is a time-based media artist, focusing primarily on video and sound. His work explores histories that remain overlooked in everyday life, highlighting what lies on the peripheries in order to safekeep their traces for an uncertain future. In his work, Cimino often breaks down the conventions of the formats he uses; such as a series of film trailers that never amount to a full movie, a sound work utilizing the podcast format to question its own existential narrative, large scale video installations of mundane objects that function more like paintings, and editing appropriated footage from western genre films to focus on the landscape rather than the main characters. In all of these works, Cimino brings the background to the foreground asking us to see beyond the banal and to reflect upon the hidden histories of what often goes unnoticed.

Joe Cimino is an Italian-American time-based media artist, musician, producer, and podcaster, currently based in New Jersey. He has exhibited work in the United States and Internationally, with solo and group exhibitions located in Florence, Italy. Growing up traveling back and forth from the United States to Italy, he holds on to his dual cultural Identity and is present in his artistic practice. Cimino holds a BFA in studio art from Rowan University and a MFA in studio art from Studio Arts College International, Located in Florence, Italy.