EDUCATION
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts MFA
Rhode Island School of Design MAT Art Education
Fashion Institute of Technology AAS Textile Surface Design
New York University BA Individualized Study
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Artpace “A wide action is not a width” San Antonio TX
2023 Margot Samel “Irish Exit” NYC
REGULARNORMAL “Waymark” at Independent Art Fair NYC
Swarthmore College “Conflicting Truths” Swarthmore PA
2021 REGULARNORMAL at NADA Miami FL
REGULARNORMAL “Née” NYC
2019 Fleisher Art Memorial “Tharavadu: 42nd Annual Wind Challenge” Philadelphia PA
2018 The Growlery "Sisters, not Twins" San Francisco CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 UTA “Stop and Stare” Atlanta GA
2023 Art Basel Miami Beach + UBS Global + Art Noir “Poetics of Dimensions” Miami FL
Whitaker Museum “British Textile Biennial” Lancashire UK
Green Art Gallery “ Memory is the Seamstress” Dubai
Margot Samel “Maskenfreit” NYC
Charles Moffett “Genius Loci” NYC
Venus Over Manhattan “This Too Shall Pass” NYC
Tiger Strikes Asteroid “Gathering” Brooklyn NY
James Fuentes “A Study in Form (Chapter One) “ NYC
Dimin NYC “Cycles” NYC
Mindy Solomon Gallery “Hand over Hand” Miami FL
MOCA Arlington “Crisis of Image” Arlington VA
REGULARNORMAL at Frieze LA “Captive Rest” with Bony Ramirez Los Angeles CA
2022 Swivel Saugerties “In the Bleak Midwinter” Saugerties NY
Aicon Conteporary “Feast of the Gods” NYC
Jeffrey Deitch “Wonder Women” Los Angeles
Charlotte Street Foundation “Handiwork: Art, Craft, and the Space Between” KC MO
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art “(De)Framing Identity” Salt Lake City UT
Dieu Donné “Workspace Exhibition” Brooklyn NY
Brattleboro Museum and Art Center “Felt Experience” Brattleboro VT
Jeffrey Deitch “Wonder Women” NYC
Bradley Ertaskiran Gallery “Last Call” Montreal Canada
Hanna Traore Gallery “Hues” NYC
Turn Gallery "Interval” NYC (with Mary Corman)
UICA “Manufactured Narratives” Grand Rapids MI
2021 Swivel Gallery “Hereditary” Brooklyn NY
Bravin Lee “If Tomrrow Comes” NYC
REGULARNORMAL at Independent Art Fair “One after nineteen” NYC
Smallbany “Stowaway” Albany NY (with Silas McDonough)
Ross + Kramer Gallery “Summer Summer” East Hampton NY
Pentimenti Gallery “Illusions and Other Protective Spells” Philadelphia PA
Southern Exposure “Once Removed” San Francisco CA
Holsum Gallery “Exhibition #8” Kansas City MO
South Asia Institute Chicago “Diasporic Rhizome” Chicago IL
2020 REGULARNORMAL “The Privilege of Getting Together” NYC
Textile Arts Center "Subtle Speaks" Brooklyn NY
Shaker Museum “In Union, Remotely” Mt. Lebanon NY
The Yard "Intrinsic" Brooklyn NY
601 Artspace “It’s the End of the World as We Know It and I Feel Fine/Not Fine”
2019 Site Gallery “Reused Recycled” Brooklyn NY
Touchstone Gallery “America is…” Washington DC
The Painting Center “Patterns of Influence” NYC
The Delaware Contemporary “Post Script: Emerging Notions in Contemporary Craft” Wilmington DE
Mission Cultural Center “JAGAH //JADOO” San Francisco CA
PAFA Museum “Held Dear” Philadelphia PA (with Chelsea Nader)
2018 Lite Haus Gallery + Project Space “Immaterielle Hautungen” Berlin Germany
The Sculpture Center "After the Pedestal" Cleveland OH
Charles Addams Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania "5 into 1" Philadelphia PA
PAFA Museum “Responders” Philadelphia PA
2017 Woodmere Art Museum “Annual Juried Exhibition” Philadelphia PA
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2023 Dieu Donné “Manifest Absence” Brooklyn NY
2022 Soloway Gallery “Keloid Archives” Brooklyn NY
Field Projects Gallery “Sehnsucht” NYC
Soloway Gallery “Gall” Brooklyn NY
2021 Cluster Gallery “Minute Landscapes: A Solo Exhibition of Ara Koh” Brooklyn NY
Textile Arts Center “Another’s Table” Brooklyn NY
2020 Shelter in Place Gallery “Press” Boston MA
Assembly Room x Artfare “Desire Lines”
Textile Arts Center “Desire Lines” Brooklyn NY
2019 Amos Eno Gallery “Typos + Spills + Broken Glass” Brooklyn NY (Co-Curated with Emmitt Smith)
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2023 Visiting Critic and Artist Talk Rhode Island School of Design
Visiting Critic Mason Gross School of the Arts Rutgers University
Visiting Artist Parsons School of Design The New School
Marjorie Heilman Visiting Lecturer Swarthmore College
Visiting Artist Lecture Utah Valley University
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS & PUBLICATIONS
2023 Greenwich House Pottery Residency | NYC
Marjorie Heilman Visiting Artist | Swarthmore College
Museum of Arts and Design Artist in Residence | NYC
2022 Archie Bray Foundation Residency | Helena MT
Windgate Foundation Scholar
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program
2021 Fountainhead Arts Residency | Miami FL
Dieu Donné Workspace Residency | Brooklyn NY
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program
New American Paintings, No. 157, MFA Annual
Venti Journal, Vol. 2 Issue 1: Inhale/Exhale
ZYZZYVA, Winter 2021
2020 ArtMaze Magazine | 20th Anniversary Edition | UK
Hopper Prize | Finalist
Maake Magazine, Issue 11
BRIClab Video Arts Residency | Brooklyn NY
2019 Textile Arts Center AIR Cycle 11 | Brooklyn NY
Chautauqua Visual Arts Residency | Chautauqua NY
Friend of the Artist, Volume 9
2019 New American Paintings, No. 140, Northeast Issue
Fleisher Art Memorial 42nd Annual Wind Challenge
2018 Centre // Substructured Loss Residency | Berlin Germany
The Growlery Residency | San Francisco CA
PRESS
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https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-10-galleries-breakout-year-2023
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https://www.vogue.com/article/melissa-joseph-irish-exit-exhibition-interview
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artists-to-watch-october-new-york-2369678
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/sahana-ramakrishnan-interviewed/
https://www.documentjournal.com/2023/07/racquel-chevremont-art-still-life-venus-over-manhattan-this-too-shall-pass/
https://www.washingtoninformer.com/melissa-joseph-d-c-artist-making-waves-in-global-art-market/
https://www.washingtoninformer.com/dmv-artists-flourish-at-venus-over-manhattan-gallery-exhibition/
https://www.elledecor.com/it/arte/g44155071/10-mostre-da-vedere-giugno-2023-in-tutta-italia/
https://burnaway.org/magazine/hand-over-hand-textiles-today-mindy-solomon-miami/
https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/02/17/artists-frieze-los-angeles-focus-2023
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https://fondazioneimagomundi.org/en/webdoc/melissa-joseph-eng/
https://cerebralwomen.com/2023/04/26/episode-150-a-conversation-with-melissa-joseph/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2023/05/05/art-gallery-shows-dc-area
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/melissa-joseph-interviewed/
https://www.architecturaldigest.in/magazine-story/artist-melissa-josephs-felt-art-responds-to-her-biracial-identity/
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/culture/article/2023/01/01/the-weaving-and-blending-of-melissa-joseph_6009933_30.html
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https://bombmagazine.org/articles/sadia-rehman-interviewed/
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/david-schutter-interviewed/
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/miguel-%C3%A1ngel-payano-jr-interviewed/
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/a-disciple-of-her-own-mind-anne-minich-interviewed/
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/chucka-chucka-chucka-poom-poom-kenny-rivero-interviewed/
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/the-long-game-of-care-work-jaishri-abichandani-interviewed/
https://www.artlovescompany.org/home/airplane-window-series-14a-and-14b-by-melissa-joseph
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/asian-american-pacific-islander-creatives-on-heritage
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/wonder-women-exhibition-ny-asian-artists/index.html
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/kc-joseph-soloway-gallery-show-1234629872/
https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/arts-visuels/2022-03-30/galerie-bradley-ertaskiran/new-york-s-invite-a-montreal.php
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https://www.maakemagazine.com/melissa-joseph
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https://heirloomrugs.wordpress.com/2020/06/11/featured-artist-interview-melissa-joseph/
https://antemag.com/2021/01/06/artist-melissa-joseph-reflects-on-weaving-it-all-together/
https://antemag.com/2021/01/11/21-artists-to-watch-in-2021-part-i-of-2021s-movers-and-shakers/
CONTACT
Gallery Manager: Mara Poch
e: melissa@mjosephstudio.com
@melissajoseph_art