Æmen Ededéen United States, b. 1979

Æmen Ededéen (also known as Joshua Hagler) (b. 1979, Mountain Home AFB, Idaho) earned his BFA from The University of Arizona, he is a first-generation graduate. A 2018 grant recipient of the Roswell Artist in Residence Program, Ededéen has since made New Mexico his permanent home. Currently, he lives with his wife and daughter in the high desert village of Placitas at the foot of the Sandia Mountains. 

2018 saw two museum shows at the Brand Library and Art Center in Los Angeles and the Roswell Museum and Art Center in New Mexico entitled “The River Lethe” and “Love Letters to the Poorly Regarded” respectively. 2021 marks two solo exhibitions for Hagler with “Drawing in the Dark” at Cris Worley in Dallas and “The Living Circle Us” at Unit London, curated by David Anfam. He has exhibited paintings, sculpture, video, and animation in galleries and museums in North and South America, Europe, and Australia including a long list of solo exhibitions. Reviews and features about the work, as well as his own poems and essays, have appeared in a variety of publications and media outlets in the U.S. and other parts of the world. His monograph Nihil: Joshua Hagler in New Mexico written by John Yau is coming out in July 2025 with Unicorn Publishing.