UPCOMING:
An Evening with Joy Episalla, MoMA Modern Monday April 28, 2025
Wish You Were Here: Joy Episalla, Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, Wednesday, April 30, 2025
RECENT:
Chapter Eight: arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard /Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy: amplified, curated by Jo-ey Tang, Participant INC, NYC, March 2 - May 11, 2025
Angelic Transmissions: Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard and Carrie Yamaoka in conversation with Jarrett Earnest about Chapter Eight of arms / ache / avid aeon at Participant, April 7
Exposure, curated by Carrie Yamaoka, ULTERIOR Gallery, NYC, March 7—April 5, 2025
a field once more, curated by Janie Perez-Radler, Melrose Botanical Garden Gallery, LA, Sept 7-Oct 12, 2024
The Salon by NADA and The Community Paris, curated by Eloise Sweetman / Shimmer, Rotterdam, Oct 17-20 2024, Paris
A Matter of Time, curated by Leslie Wayne, Platform Project Space, March 7 - April 4, 2024
An Opera of Whispers Joy Episalla / Suzanne Silver / Sivan Silver-Swartz, Curated by Margaret Tedesco, / (Slash), San Francisco, September 16, 2023 – March 23, 2024
foldtogram (chromo white/blue, winter 40’ x 50”) I 2025 I Light sensitive chromogenic object I Dimensions variable I Installation view: Chapter Eight: arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy: amplified, curated by Jo-ey Tang, Participant Inc, NYC
Detail: foldtogram (chromo white/blue, winter 40’ x 50”) I 2025 I Light sensitive chromogenic object I Dimensions variable
foldtogram (chromo white/blue, winter 40’ x 50”) I 2025 I Light sensitive chromogenic object I Dimensions variable I Installation view: Chapter Eight: arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy: amplified, curated by Jo-ey Tang, Participant Inc, NYC
foldtogram (chromo white/blue, winter 40’ x 50”) I 2025 I Light sensitive chromogenic object I Dimensions variable I Installation view: Chapter Eight: arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy: amplified, curated by Jo-ey Tang, Participant Inc, NYC
Detail: foldtogram (chromo white/blue, winter 40’ x 50”) I 2025 I Light sensitive chromogenic object I Dimensions variable
foldtogram (chromo white) I 2024 I Light sensitive chromogenic object I 40 x 30 inches
detail: foldtogram (chromo white) I 2024 I Light sensitive chromogenic object I 40 x 30 inches
foldtogram (chromo white) I 2024 I Light sensitive chromogenic object I 40 x 30 inches I installation view: Exposure at Ulterior Gallery, NYC
foldtogram (35'2.5' x 44"- August, Iteration 7) I 2018 /2019 / 2020 /2021 /2023 I silver gelatin object/photogram on Ilford Matte RC I Installation view: Chapter Seven: arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy: amplified, curated by Jo-ey Tang, in Exposé·es, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
IMAGE 1-3: foldtogram (rcg anticline / august, iteration 2) I 2023 I silver gelatin object / photogram I dimensions variable I installation view at /(slash) Art, San Francisco in An Opera of Whispers curated by Margaret Tedesco I IMAGE 4: foldtogram (rcm, isoclinal august 2, iteration 2) I 2024 I silver gelatin object / photogram I dimensions variable I IMAGE 5-6: foldtogram (rcg lg 3, iteration 2) I 2024 I silver gelatin object / photogram + styrofoam I 52 x 42 x 2 inches I installation view at Platform Project Space in A Matter Of Time curated by Leslie Wayne
Installation views: crack fold burn bright at Tibor de Nagy, NYC I all silver gelatin objects I detail: foldtogram (35'2.5' x 44"- August 2018, iteration 6) I foldtogram (35'2.5' x 44"- August 2018, iteration 6) I 2018 /2019 / 2020 /2021 / 2022 I foldtogram (daylight 2), 2018 I foldtogram 7 rcm, 2020 I foldtogram 28 rcm, 2018 I foldtogram (lg rc 5, iteration 2), 2018/2022 I foldtogram (burn 2), 2013/2020 I foldtogram (pink blk August 2, iteration 2), 2018-2022 I foldtogram (burn 3), 2018 I foldtogram (pink blk August 1, iteration 1), 2018-2022
foldtogram (35'2.5' x 44"- August, Iteration 5) I 2018 /2019 / 2020 /2021 I silver gelatin object/photogram on Ilford Matte RC I Installation view: Omniscient: Queer Documentation in an Image Culture I Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, NYC
foldtogram (35'2.5' x 44"- August 2018, iteration 1) I silver gelatin object/photogram on Ilford Matte RC I handbag 10 I 2018 I archival archival pigment print & plexiglas I 29 x 34 x .5 inches I installation: Chapter One: arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy: amplified, Beeler Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
Les Psychanalystes et le Marché I 2015/ 2018 / 2019 I 3-channel video / audio installation I dimensions variable I installation view: ICA Philadelphia. I The 3-channel video installation, Les Psychanalystes et le Marché, places the viewer directly in the position of a membrane. The source video captures the sculptural and temporal nature of the set up, running, and dismantling of a street market in Paris, shot from a fixed aerial viewpoint. The three channels present three phases of the action concurrently. While the video documents the scene in front of the lens, the audio narrative describes what is happening behind the camera. The artist’s oddly intimate interaction with the psychoanalyst couple, whom have lent their apartment and terrace for the video recording, is mixed with an interior accounting. The viewer experiences outside and inside, the scene and behind the scene, simultaneously.
foldtogram (1152" x 50", August 2019) I silver gelatin object on Ilford Glossy RC
1-3: iteration 4 I Front of House: Michele Araujo • Carrie Yamaoka • Joy Episalla at Catskills Art Space I 2023
4: iteration 3 I Direct Contact: Cameraless Photography Now, Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Bloomington, ID I 2023
5-8: iteration 2 in 3 @ 386: Michele Arujo • Carrie Yamaoka • Joy Episalla, Stamford, New York 2021
9-10: iteration 1 in Chapter Five: arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy: amplified, ICA, Philadelphia, 2019
skins I 2001-2019 I velvet, cotton I dimensions, variable I installation view: Chapter Four: arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy: amplified I Beeler Gallery, Ohio I skin 7 I 2001/2019 I velvet, wood I 18 x 12 x 2 inches
foldtogram (35'2.5' x 44"- August 2018, iteration 3) 2018 / 2019 I silver gelatin object/photogram on Ilford Matte RC I Chapter Three: arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy: amplified I Beeler Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
foldtograms I selection I silver gelatin object,/photogram on Ilford multigrade paper
garage series selection: garage 5 (extended), 2015, archival print on vinyl, dimensions variable I garage 13 , 2015, aluminum, 40 x 60 inches I garage 8, 2017, archival print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 40 x 60 I installation: Participant, Inc, NYC., 2015
Aerial view 7 I Aerial view 5 I Aerial view 3 I 2015 -2018 I mixed media I dimensions variable
Freuds Study series, 2011: 5 Women. Freud’s Bookcase. London I Dreams and Ghosts. Freud’s Bookcase. London I Amulets. Freud’s Bookcase. London I Freud’s Chair. London I all: archival pigment print sandwich mounted to plexiglas
TV series selection: TV 1 (Naples) I TV 2 (Madrid) I TV 3 (London) I TV 4 Barcelona I TV 8 (Chicago) I TV 11 (Amsterdam) I TV 19 (Washington DC) I plexi, C-print,+ wood frame, 2005 to the present
pillow 2 1999 I pillow 4 2015 I handbag 1 1999 I handbag 6 2000 I handbag 7 2001 I All: chromogenic print sandwich mounted to plexi