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Solo Exhibitions
2022
crack fold burn bright, Joy Episalla, Tibor De Nagy, NYC, (catalog)
(De)constructing the Everyday, Joy Episalla, Mayer Gallery, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
2018
Les Psychanalystes et le Marché, Galerie Joseph Tang, Paris
2016
144 years, International Center of Photography, NYC
2015
Street View Rear Window, Participant, Inc., NYC
2012
Dreams and Ghosts, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, BE
2008
168 sand, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006
Joy Episalla, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004
for the birds, Debs & Co., NYC, (catalog)
2003
for the birds, Studio 1.1, London, UK
2002
removed, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, (catalog)
gone, Clifford•Smith Gallery, Boston, MA,
removed, Debs & Co., NYC, (catalog)
2001
Joy Episalla, The Physical Photograph, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, (catalog)
2000
Recent Work, Clifford•Smith Gallery, Boston, MA
Joy Episalla, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON
1999
inside/out, Debs & Co., NYC, (catalog)
1998
Joy Episalla, Debs & Co., NYC
1996
Joy Episalla, Neue Galerie/Interaktion Kunst, Hannover, DE, (catalog)

Two-person Exhibitions
2023
An Opera of Whispers: Joy Episalla and Suzanne Silver, curated bu Margaret Tedesco, /(Slash) Art, SF
2019
The leaden circles dissolved in the air: Joy Episalla +Carrie Yamaoka, Transmitter Gallery, Bushwick, NY
2014
TO SELVES: Joy Episalla and Susan Silas, Momenta Art, Bushwick, NY, (publication)
2008
Medium Cool, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005
Domestic Sites of Love and Loss, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
2001
Surroundings, Clifford•Smith Gallery, Boston, MA
1988
Joy Episalla/Chris Howard, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Front of House: Michele Araujo • Carrie Yamaoka • Joy Episalla at Catskills Art Space thru December 30, 2023
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
Direct Contact: Cameraless Photography Now. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Bloomington, Indiana
Gathering, Organized by Anne Couillaud, The Corner Gallery, Andes, NY
Behind Abstract Forms, Fragment Gallery, NYC
2021
Omniscient: Queer Documentation in an Image Culture, curated by Avram Finklestein, at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, NYC
3 @ 386: Michele Araujo • Carrie Yamaoka • Joy Episalla, Stamford, NY
Dust: The Plates of the Present, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR, (catalog)
2020
Dust: The Plates of the Present, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Yesterday’s Tomorrow: selections from the Rose Collection, 1933-2018, organized by Caitlin Julia Rubin, Assistant Curator and with contributions by Ruth Estévez, Senior Curator-at-Large, Rose Art Museum, MA
2019
Chapter Five: arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy: amplified: Organized by Anthony Elms, curated by Jo-ey Tang, ICA, Philadelphia, PA
Altered After, curated by Conrad Ventur, Participant Inc, NYC
IN TOTO 7, organized by Thomas Fougeirol and Julien Carreyn, Kunstverein am Rosa–Luxemburg–Platz, Berlin, DE
Season 1: Chapters Three-Four arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, Carrie Yamaoka:: fierce pussy: amplified, Curated by Jo-ey Tang, Beeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH
2018
Season One: Chapters One-Two: arms/ache/avid/aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified, Curated by Jo-ey Tang, Beeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art, Columbus, OH
Into The Light,, Daniel Cooney I Fine Art Gallery, NYC
IN TOTO 6, Fondation Ricard, Paris, FR
2017
IN TOTO 4, Essex Flowers, NYC
IN TOTO 3, Le Moliére, 40 Rue DE Richelieu, Paris
The Plates Of The Present, So Far, curated by Thomas Fougeirol & Jo-ey Tang, Praz Delavallade, Paris
Art AIDS America, Alphawood Gallery, Chicago, IL (catalog)
2016
More Than Lovers, More Than Friends, curated by Jo-ey Tang, Center for Contemporary Art Futura, Prague, CZ
IN TOTO 2, 11 Rue Saint Anastase, Paris
Art AIDS America, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (catalog)
Art AIDS America, Zukerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA (catalog)
2015
Greater New York 2015, curated by Douglas Crimp, Peter Eleey, Thomas J. Lax, Mia Locks, MoMA PS1
Art AIDS America, curated by Rock Hushka & Jonathan David Katz, Tacoma Art Museum, Wash.
Dust: The Plates Of The Present, February 2013 – July 2015, curated by Sonel Breslav, Baxter St./Camera Club of New York
2014
A PARTICULAR KIND OF SOLITUDE: An exhibition inspired by Robert Walser, curated by Serra Sabuncuoglu, NYC
FULL HOUSE, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, BE
The Last Brucennial, New York, NY
2013
Clouds, curated by Adam Simon, Leslie Heller Gallery, New York, NY
Herstory Inventory, Oakville Galleries, Toronto, Canada
2012
Minescapes, Summer of Photography 2012, Brussels Biennale, CENTRALE for Contemporary Art, Brussels, BE
Herstory Inventory. 100 Feminist Drawings by 100 Artists, RAW/COOKED: Ulrike Müller, Brooklyn Museum
Longyear Invitational, Margettville, NY
2011
Social Photography II, carriage trade, NYC
VISION IS ELASTIC. THOUGHT IS ELASTIC, curated by Moyra Davey & Zoe Leonard, Murray Guy, NYC
Group Exhibition, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, Il
Myself, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno
2010
Social Photography I, carriage trade, NYCExquisite Landscape, International Center of Photography, NYC     
Exquisite Landscape, International Center of Photography, NYC
supernormAL, Braziers International Workshop, Oxfordshire, UK
movement schmoovement, curated by Nancy Brooks Brody & Linda Matalon, La Mama La Galleria, NYC
2009    
As We Live & Breath, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
SENZA FRONTIERE / WITHOUT BORDERS Film Festival, Rome, Italy
out of the blue, co-curated: Joy Episalla, Joy Garnett & Amy Lipton Gallery Bergen, Bergen Comm. College, Paramus, NJ
2008      
Summary, Studio 1.1, London, UK
DIFFRACTED SOLSTICE, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, BE
Break the Rules, curated by Hieber/Theising, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, DE, (catalog)
2007
project:rendition, JC2, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New Yor
The Last Seduction, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL, (catalog)
2006
All For One, One For All, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, BE
Inside/Outside; Treelines, curated by Amy Lipton, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
Group Exhibition, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
When Artists Say We, curated by Andrea Geyer & Christian Rattemeyer, Artists Space, NYC
out of the blue, curated by Joy Episalla & Joy Garnett, organized by Amy Lipton, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
2005
Sleigh, Arts & Business, London, UK
Obligation to Endure, curated by Nick Debs, New York Academy of Sciences, NYC
NEXT, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
Vanishing Point, curated by Claudine Ise; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, (catalog)
Group Exhibition of New Work by Gallery Artists, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
Unspeakable, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, BE
2004
Group Exhibition, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003
Hot House, curated by Mary Jo Vath, New York Academy of Sciences, NYC
Pretty as a Picture: Beauty & Banality in Contemporary Art, curated by Lisa Boyle, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
Sculptural Prints, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
Up & Coming, curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Arte Contemporaneo Feria Internacional (ARCO), Madrid, ES
The World’s A Mess It’s In My Kiss, Debs & Co., NYC
2002      
Snapshot, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2001
Peppermint, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
Image In The Landscape, The Fields Sculpture Park, Art/OMI, Ghent, NY
Chelsea Rising, curated by David Rubin, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, (catalog)
2000
Snapshot, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
Other Worlds, 28 Wooster St, NYC
1999
Photic 2, eyewash, Brooklyn, NY
Stars of Track & Field, Debs & Co. NYC
Unbehagen der Geschlechter/ Gender Trouble, curated by Lutz Heiber & Gisela Theising, Neuer Aachener, Kunstrerein, Aachen, DE
Starwood Collection, Starwood, Washington, DC
1998
New York Collection, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Skin Deep, 123 Watts Gallery, NYC, (catalog)
Brenner Pass/Liberty Exchange/Niemandsland, Part 2, 4 Walls, Brooklyn, NY
1997
100 Live Girls All Night, NYC
Very Large Array, Debs & Co., New York, NY
Brenner Pass/Liberty Exchange/Niemandsland, 4 Walls, Italy/Germany
Home is where the Heart is, White Columns, NYC
Gramercy Art Fair, White Columns, NYC
Silence = Death, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück, DE
1996
Geopony, Adam Gallery, London, UK
Graphic Responses to AIDS, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
1995
interference, London Artforms Gallery, London, UK
fruit x-x-x, Jacklight Gallery, NYC
Other Rooms, Four Walls at Ronald Feldman Gallery, NYC
1994
Amendments, curated by Catherine Howe, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
Silence = Death, curated by Lutz Heiber & Gisela Theising, Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, DE
Before Stonewall, White Columns, NYC
1993
New Jersey Arts Annual, Newark Museum, NJ
Contacts/Proofs, Jersey City Museum, NJ
1992
The Other Landscape, Tribeca 148 Gallery, NYC
Urban Alchemy, OIA Gallery, New York, NY
1991
Outrageous Desire, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, (catalog)
Situation, curated by Nayland Blake & Pam Gregg, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Urban Alchemy, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
1990
Post-Consumerism: Part II–Designs and Ideas for the Waste Stream, Storefront for Art and Architecture, NYC
New Jersey Arts Annual, Jersey City Museum, NJ, (catalog)
1989
The Reductive Impulse, Coup de Grace Gallery, NYC
1988
Hudson County Artists, Jersey City Museum, NJ
Four Painters, Coup de Grace Gallery, Hoboken, NJ
1987
The Last Supper, Ludlow Graphic Arts, NYC
Group Exhibition, O Roe Electric, Hoboken, NJ
1985
Christopher Engel, Joy Episalla, Carrie Yamaoka, Four Walls, Hoboken, NJ
1984
Before and After, Four Walls, Hoboken, NJ
1983
Seven Painters, Ramapo College, Ramapo, NJ
1981
Rutgers National Drawing Show, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ

Grants / Fellowships / Projects
2013
The plates of the present, photogram project, Organized by Thomas Fougeirol and Jo-ey Tang, http://www.thedust.fr
2006
Fenenin El-Rahhal, (Nomadic Artists), 2006 International Artists Summit, organized by Lara Baladi, sponsors: Goeth Institute & the Ford Foundation, Western Desert & Cairo, Egypt
2003
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, NYC
1998
Braziers Workshop, Oxfordshire, UK
1995
Braziers Workshop, Oxfordshire, UK
1985
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY

Reviews & Publications
2023
Soboleva, Ksenia M., Friendship as a Way of Life, Ursula: Issue 9
River Reporter, Front of House: Michele Araujo • Carrie Yamaoka • Joy Episalla, Nov. 29
Sullivan County Democrat, Catskill Art Space to present Front of House, Nov. 10
Artforum: Summer Issue 2023, Thomas (T.) Jean Lax on “Exposé•es” at Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Text Zur Kunst, In Defiance of Death as Finitude, Jillian McManemin on “Exposé•es” at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, May 5
2022
crack fold burn bright, catalog with essays by Jo-ey Tang and Jill H.Casid, Tibor de Nagy, NYC
BOMB, Deep Looking: Joy Episalla Interviewed by Ksenia M. Soboleva, July 21
The New Yorker, Goings On About Town, ART, ‘Joy Episalla’ by Johanna Fateman, July 11 & 18, p. 5
ARTFORUM, Must See, Joy Episalla / crack fold burn bright, Tibor de Nagy, NYC, June 5
Two Coats of Paint, Joy Episalla’s radical photography, by Adam Simon, June 29
2020 
Dust: Plates of the Present, (Catalog from Exhibition), Editions Du Centre Pompidou
Casid, Jill H.,Thanatography: Working the Folds of Photography’s Wild Performativity in Capital’s Necrocene,Photography and Culture, June 1
Evergreen Review: 5 Poems, by George Kalogeris and Art by Joy Episalla, March 17, 2020; https://evergreenreview.com/read/5-poems-george-kalogeris
2019
Heinrich, Will, “New York Galleries: What to See Right Now: The leaden circles dissolved in the air, “ New York Times, Aug. 25, C13. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/arts/design/art-gallery-shows.html?searchResultPosition=1
Altered After (catalog), Contributors Visual AIDS Director Esther McGowan, exhibition curator Conrad Ventur, archivist Tara Hart; pp 20-21, 60, 63.
“arms ache avid aeon: fierce pussy amplified” at Beeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design, Contemporary Art Daily, July 8th, 2019, http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2019/07/arms-ache-avid-aeon-at-beeler-gallery/
2018
TAG Limited Art Editions 1999—2017, catalog, published by TAG Treatment Action Group, NYC
2017
The Gibson Report, A Conversation with Joy Episalla by David Gibson, April 22, illus.
https://www.gibsoncontemporary.com/davidgibsonreport
2016
il Post, PhotoGallery, ‘Serie di tv,’ Italia, 15 Giugno, illus., http://www.ilpost.it/2016/06/15/serie-di-tv/
McDonough, Tom, “Through A Glass Darkly, ”OSMOS Magazine, Issue 18, Summer, pg. 42-47, illus
Rosenberg, David, “These Photos of TV Sets Celebrate Life’s Mundane Moments,” Slate, 27 May, illus.,
http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2016/05/27/joy_episalla_s_tv_sets_is_a_series_that_reflects_on_a_photographer_s_travel.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_top
2015
Cotter, Hotter, “At ‘Greater New York,’ Rising Art Stars Meet the Old School,” The New York Times, Oct. 15, C23, & illus. @ http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/16/arts/design/at-greater-new-york-rising-art-stars meet-the-old-school.html?ref=arts&_r=2
Weiner, Andrew Stefan, “Greater New York”, art agenda, Oct. 13, http://www.art-agenda.com/reviews /greater-new-york/ Davis, Ben, “Douglas Crimp Says Curating MoMA PS1’s Greater NY Was ‘The Last Thing I Wanted To Do’, artnet news, Oct. 13, https://news.artnet.com/people/douglas-crimp-ps1-greater-new-york-339193#.Vh7Dy1kVqW4.email
“Art AIDS America,” Catalog, Jonathan David Katz & Rock Hushka, published by University of Washington Press
“Dust Plates Of The Present, February 2013–July 2015,” edited by Sonel Breslav, Published by Blonde Art Books, illus. pgs 2-3
BOMB, “Justin Vivian Bond by Joy Episalla,” BOMB 132— Artists in Conversation, Summer 2015, in print & @ http://bombmagazine.org/article/6976612/justin-vivian-bond
McCormick, Carlo, “Joy Episalla: Street View Rear Window”, Photograph, April, in print & http://photographmag.com/reviews/joy-episalla-street-view-rear-window/
Ebony, David, “Top 10 Shows for March 2015”, artNet, March, https://news.artnet.com/art-world/david-ebonys-top-shows-march-275904
2014
Schwendener, Martha, “Chasing a Dream and an Unalloyed Ethos, A Critic’s Picks in Brooklyn, an
Embattled Utopia”, Bushwick, The New York Times, April, 3
“TO SELVES: Joy Episalla and Susan Silas,” published by 2 WORKS PRESS, March
2013
Artcore Journal, artist projects, “To Selves: Joy Episalla and Susan Silas”, Vol. 2, Issue 1, July 21, http://artcorejournal.net/2013/07/21/to-selves-joy-episalla-and-susan-silas/
2012
De Crayencour, Muriel, L’Echo, “Les femmes a l’etage”, March 24, 2012, pg 47
2011
Marcus, Sara, Art Forum, “Vision is Elastic. Thought is Elastic”, May 21, 2011
Blind Spot, Issue 43, guest edited by Moyra Davey and Zoe Leonard, p. 43-44, illus.
Bynum Brad, ‘Portraits of the artists, Myself Exhibition’, Reno News & Review, Arts & Culture section,Jan. 20, 2011
2010
Cotter, Holland, ‘Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993’, White Columns; New York Times, Oct. 15, 2010; https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/15/arts/artsspecial/15galleries-03.html?searchResultPosition=2
JC2, ‘project: rendition’, Public Culture, Volume 22, Number 1, Winter 2010, pp 119-126
2009
Hieber, Lutz & Moebius, Stephan (Hg.), Avantgarden Und Politik, Kunstlerischer Aktivismus von Dada bis zur
Postmoderne, published by Bibliografische Information der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek, pp. 185-201, illus.
2008
Kinkley, Jonathan, “Medium Cool”, TimeOut/Chicago, Issue 162: April 3-9, Illus.,
Artner, Alan, “Atmospheric reflections captured within … hotel television sets”, Chicago Tribune, March 21, p. 18, illus.
Hieber/Theising: Break the Rules, catalog, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, DE
2007
The New Yorker, “project:rendition”, June 25, p. 17
Hickey, Dave & Secrist, Carrie: The Last Seduction, A Welcome Surrender to Beauty, catalog, published by Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
The New Yorker, Goings on About Town, Art : ‘project:rendition’, June 25
Time Out/New York, Art, Momenta Art: ‘project:rendition’, May 31- June 6, p. 82
2006
Badtke-Berkow, Joseph: ‘Art in a sea of sand’, The Daily Star, Egypt, Dec. 14, p. 25, illus.
Terzian, Peter: ‘Screen Savers’, Culture & Travel, September 26, p. 144, illus.
Rosof, Libby: ‘Dancing with trees', Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof’s Artblog, July 27
Newhall, Edith: ‘ART’, Weekend, The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 23
Newhall, Edith: ‘Looking skyward for a spark’, The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 17
“Out of the Blue,” exhibition brochure, published by Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA, March 4
Kenny, William: ‘Rain or Shine, Artists Find Inspiration’, Northeastern Times, March 2
2005
Johnson, Ken: ‘Everywhere’s the Same: Nowhere in Particular’, The New York Times, June 3, p. 34
Foster, Hal: ‘Six Notes on Vanishing’, Vanishing Point, exhibition catalog, published by Wexner Centerfor the Arts, Ohio State University, p. 28
Isé, Claudine: ‘Vanishing Points’, Vanishing Point, exhibition catalog, published by Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, p. 14, 48-49, illus.
2004
Rattemeyer, Christian: ‘Traversing the Backyard Horizon’, for the birds, exhibition catalog, published by Joy Episalla, NYC
2003
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation: 2003 Awards, catalog, published by The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, NYC
Hagen, Susan: ‘Creatures from Another Dimension’, Philadelphia Citypaper, No. 961, October 16–23, p. 37, illus.
Sculptural Prints’, Philadelphia Citypaper, No. 956, September 11–18.
The Print Center Presents Sculptural Prints Exhibition, City Surburban News, September 10–16.
2002
Lewis, Jonathan: ‘Excavating the Obvious’, City Newspaper, Vol. 34, No. 13, December 18, p.18, illus.
Horton, C. Sean: ‘Joy Episalla’, South End News, October 20, p. 14,17, illus.
McQuaid, Cate: ‘Joy Episalla’, The Boston Globe, October 18, p. C 21, illus.
Moore, Claire, ‘Joy Episalla, removed’, New York Arts, April, p. 95
Episalla, Joy: removed, exhibition catalog, published by Joy Episalla, NYC, p. 1, illus.
Griffin, Tim: ‘Critics’ picks’, Time Out, March 21–28, p. 85, 89
The New Yorker, ‘Joy Episalla’, March 11, p. 17
2001
Rubin, David: ‘Chelsea Rising’, catalog, published by Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, March 3–June 9, p. 9, illus.
Rose, Joshua: ‘Object Lessons’, Phoenix New Times, March 22–28, p. 68, illus.
Moore, Frank: ‘Joy Episalla, The Physical Photograph’, catalog, published by the Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, Feb. 17 – June 10, p. 4-7, illus.
2000
Foster, Richard: ‘Episalla’s Tower of Babel’, South End News, Vol. 21, No.39, October 19, p. 15, illus.
Hammond, Harmony: Lesbian Art in America, A Contemporary History, First edition, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., pp. 76, 77, 176, 195n193, 199n299, illus.
Vaughan, R.M.: ‘Joy Episalla, Recent Work’, eye, March 16, p. 36, illus.
Cunningham, Michael: ‘Joy Episalla, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace’, published by Mercer Union, ON, March 2–April.
MacKay, Gillian: ‘Joy Episalla’, The Globe and Mail, March 11, p. R 12, illus.
XTRA!, March 9, p. 31, illus.
Arning, Bill: ‘Joy Episalla at Debs & Co.’, Art In America, March, p. 129,130, illus.
1999
The New Yorker, ‘Joy Episalla’, October 4, p. 22
Cunningham, Michael: ‘The Transfiguration of the Commonplace’, Joy Episalla, inside/out, catalog, published by Debs & Co., NYC, p. 10, 14, illus.
Nochlin, Linda: ‘Joy Episalla: The Photograph Unbound’, Joy Episalla, inside/out, catalog, published by Debs & Co., NYC
1998
Skin Deep, exhibition catalog, published by 123 Watts Gallery, NYC, illus.
wallpaper #1, edition of 100 rolls of silkscreen wallpaper, published by Debs & Co., NYC
1997
Levin, Kim: ‘Voice Choices’, Village Voice, July 15
Cunningham, Michael: ‘Joy Episalla’, exhibition catalog, published by Neue Galerie, Hannover, DE, illus.
1996
Lespress, ausgabe 10, ‘Joy Episalla’, jahrgang 2, Frankfurt, Germany, Oktober
Third Text, ‘Interference’, Number 34, Spring, illus.
Hannoveicche Allgemeine Leitung, ‘Joy Episalla’, February 29, Hannover, DE
Women’s Art Magazine, ‘interference’, London, January–February, illus.
1995
Time Out/London, ‘interference’, November 15–22, illus.
Craddock, Sacha: ‘interference’, The Times, October, London
fruit x-x-x, ‘Witness: An Exquisite Corpse’, Summer, illus.
1994
Silence = death, Kunst und AIDS in New York, Katalog: Hannoversch AIDS .Hilfe e.V., DE, illus.
1990
Raynor, Vivien, ‘ART; Narrowing 400 Entries Down to 29: A Fine Job of Selection’’, ART, New York Times, June 24, 1990; https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/24/nyregion/art-narrowing-400-entries-down-to-29-a-fine-job-of-selection.html?searchResultPosition=3

1989
Storefront for Art and Architecture, brochure, ‘Post-Consumerism: Part II–Designs and Ideas for the Waste Stream’, illus.
1988
Zimmer, William: ‘ART; A Show Full Of Eye-Catchers’, New York Times, Aug. 21, 1988, https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/21/nyregion/art-a-show-full-of-eyecatchers.html?searchResultPosition=4

Education
1978-79
BFA California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
1977-78
Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy
1975-77
AA Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

Teaching / Lectures
2021
Painting is a Supreme Fiction, Jesse Murry, Book Launch, David Zwirner, October 21
MORE LIFE: AIDS Counternarratives, featuring Avram Finkelstein, Gregg Bordowitz, Joy Episalla, and Pamela Sneed, David Zwirner, NYC, May 24
Playwrights Horizon Public Art Series, with Adam Greenfield, Avram Fimkelstein, Jilly Ballistic & Joy Episalla, Jan 21
2020
Artist Mentor, Lesley Art + Design, MFA in Visual Arts Program, Leslie University, Cambridge, MA 
2019
Michelle Jaffé in Conversation with Joy Episalla, New York Studio School, October 22
Gallery Talk for Carrie Yamaoka; recto / verso, Henry Art Gallery, July 13
Public Art and Activism: 1980s to Today, Public Art Fund, Cooper Union, June 3
2018
Joy Episalla,Grand Valley State University, Feb. 14 
Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla and Carrie Yamaoka of the New York-based queer women collective fierce pussy, Beeler Gallery Visiting Artists & Scholars Lecture Series, Beeler Gallery, Columbus, OH, Feb. 2017
2017
SOMETHING YOU SHOULD KNOW, JOY EPISALLA & CARRIE YAMAOKA, Seminar organized by Patricia Falguières, Elisabeth Lebovici et Natasa Petresin-Bachelez, Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte, Paris, 11October, http://sysk-ehess.tumblr.com/2016          
2016
"IV Embrace: On Caregiving & Creativity," Visual AIDS, Shelly & Donald Rubin Foundation, NYC
 "Women, Art, AIDS & Activism: Here Then, Here Now," curated by Alex Fialho, Visual AIDS, Brooklyn Museum Of Art, Bklyn, NY
BOMB Magazine 35th Anniversary, Justin Vivian Bond & Joy Episalla, MoMA PS1, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Artists Space/ Expanded Art Ideas Education Program, Artist in Residence, NYC
2014
Cooper Union, Visiting Artist in Advanced Photography, NYC
NYU, Experimental Theatre Class, New York, NY
Activism, Art & AIDS: fierce pussy & GRAN FURY, Yale, New Haven, CT
Artists Space/ Expanded Art Ideas Education Program, Artist in Residence, NYC
2013
Cooper Union, Visiting Artist in Advanced Photography, NYC
Artist Mentor, The Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA
Artists Space/ Expanded Art Ideas Education Program, Artist in Residence, NYC
2012
Day With(Out) Art, ICA, Philadelphia
Frank Moore: Together in Art & Activism panel, Visual AIDS, Fales Library, NYC
Artist Mentor, The Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA
Artists Space/ Expanded Art Ideas Education Program, Artist in Residence, NYC
2011
Internatiional Center of Photography, ICP–Bard Program in Advanced Photographic Studies, MFA Program
Artists Space/ Expanded Art Ideas Education Program, Artist in Residence, NYC
2010
David Wojnarowicz, International Center of Photography, NYC
Between the sheets, Cooper Union School of Art Interdisciplinary Seminar, Cooper Union, NYC
Artists Space/ Expanded Art Ideas Education Program, Artist in Residence, NYC
2009
The Marys: Political Funerals, ACT UP New York: Activism, Art & the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard, Cambridge, MA
Artists Space/ Expanded Art Ideas Education Program, Artist in Residence, NYC
School of Visual Arts, MFA Program, NYC
New York University, NYC
2008
International Center of Photography, ICP–Bard Program in Advanced Photographic Studies, MFA Program
Artists Space/ Expanded Art Ideas Education Program, Artist in Residence, NYC
2007
crossing over: ACT UP & fierce pussy / Art & Activism, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
School of Visual Arts, MFA Program, NYC
2006
Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo, Egypt
Artists Space/ Expanded Art Ideas Education Program, Artist in Residence, NYC
School of Visual Arts, MFA Program, NYC
2005
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
Artists Space/ Expanded Art Ideas Education Program, Artist in Residence, NYC
School of Visual Arts, MFA Program, NYC
2004
School of Visual Arts, MFA Program, NYC
2003
International Center for Photography, MFA Program, curated by Nayland Blake, NYC
Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA
2001
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2000
Mercer Union, Toronto, ON
NAOO Conference, curated by Robert Bedoya, NYC
1998
Cooper Hewitt Museum, curated by Barbara Hunt, NYC

Curatorial Projects
2009/2006
out of the blue. Curated by Joy Episalla, Joy Garnett, and Amy Lipton, 2009: Gallery Bergen, Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ. 2006: Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA. Participating artists include Stephen Andrews, Michele Araujo, Robert Bordo, Diane Burko, Christos Dikeakos / Robert Smithson, John Dougill, Joy Episalla, Joy Garnett, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Jacqueline Gourevitch, Erik Hanson, Geoff Hendricks, JJ L'Heureux, Bill Jones, Zoe Leonard, Frank Moore, Jaanika Peerna, Andrea Polli, Hunter Reynolds, Austin Thomas, Bing Wright, Carrie Yamaoka, Andrea Zittel. (multiple/brochure with illus.), http://outoftheblueproject.org
2007
project:rendition: a collaborative project by artists Joy Episalla, Carrie Moyer and Carrie Yamaoka, known as JC2. The exhibition takes as its focal point the practice of “rendering” or making people disappear, either literally—as in the “extraordinary renditions” practiced by the Bush Administration— or more indirectly by rendering them politically and existentially mute. The exhibition is augmented by a curated series of performances that use the gallery installation as an arena in which the performer is fully audible and partially visible to the audience, while the audience remains invisible to the performer. Performers include: Jake Araujo-Simon, Anna Blume, William Allen, David Levi Strauss, Cindy Carr and Kay Turner. Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York. (multiple/poster), www.projectrendition.info

Public Collections
Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore, MD
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN   
New York Collection, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Prudential Insurance Collection, NJ
Rose Art Museum, MA
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

Private Collections
Numerous

Collectives
Member of fierce pussy Art Collective: 1991 – present
Member of JC2: 2007