Joshua Citarella

Joshua Citarella is an artist and writer from New York City whose work is primarily focused on online communities and internet culture. He is host of the Doomscroll podcast and creator of the online platform Do Not Research.

Early life and education Citarella attended the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he learned both traditional darkroom photography and digital techniques during a period when the school was transitioning its focus from the former to the latter. As of January 2017, the two had put up seventy-eight artworks for sale, most of them consisting of a commonplace object in a manner that develops a sense of absurdity.

In 2017, Citarella presented a 12-by-8-foot triptych, titled SWIM A Few Years From Now, at The Armory Show. The work depicts his vision of how life in an American anarcho-capitalist society could manifest. Writing for Artsy, Scott Indrisek notes that the piece displays "a canny blend of analog photography and digital trickery, with many images borrowed from the internet... [it] has the slickness of a dystopian IKEA catalog spread."

In 2018, Citarella published the book Politigram & the Post-Left. The book is a research project concentrating on niche political Instagram accounts found collectively within the "Politigram" (Political Instagram) community. Citarella published another book in 2020 titled 20 Interviews, which is a collection of interviews from users on Politigram.

In 2019, Citarella worked as an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts.

In 2024, Citarella began to host the Doomscroll podcast. Podcast guests have included Matty Healy, Adam Friedland, Ezra Klein, Catherine Liu, Andrew Callaghan, Brace Belden, Claire Valdez, and Dasha Nekrasova. Doomscroll was featured in the 2026 Whitney Biennial, with multiple episodes being recorded at the museum.