Melissa Joseph is a New York based artist. Her work considers themes of family histories, materiality, and the politics of how we occupy space. She intentionally alludes to the labors of women as well as her experiences as the biracial daughter of an immigrant in rural America and the cultural mashups of diasporic life.  Her work has been shown at the Brooklyn Museum, Delaware Contemporary, Woodmere Art Museum, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA Arlington, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, List Gallery at Swarthmore College, ICA San Francisco, and at Rockefeller Center presented by Art Production Fund. She has participated in residencies including Dora Maar House, Cove Park, Greenwich House Pottery, Artpace, Dieu Donné Workspace Residency, The Textile Arts Center, Fountainhead, the Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts, and the Museum of Arts and Design. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Akron Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Ruby City, the RISD Museum, ICA Miami, and the Flint Institute of Arts. She is the recipient of the 2025 UOVO Prize by the Brooklyn Museum, a 2026 NYFA/NYSCA fellow in Craft/Sculpture, and a regular contributor to BOMB Magazine.