Melissa Joseph is a New York based artist. Her work considers themes of memory, family history, and the politics of how we occupy spaces. She intentionally alludes to the labors of women as well as experiences as a first generation American and the unique juxtapositions of diasporic life.

Her work has been shown at the Brooklyn Museum, Jaipur Centre for Art, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA Arlington, ICA San Francisco, and List Gallery at Swarthmore College. She has been featured in Hyperallergic, Art Forum, Artnet, Artnews, New American Paintings, WNYC, Le Monde, Vogue, CNN, Whitewall, Family Style, and participated in residencies including Artpace, Dieu Donné Workspace Residency, The Textile Arts Center, BRIC, Fountainhead, the Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts, the Museum of Arts and Design, Greenwich House Pottery, and Dora Maar Cultural Center. She is the recipient of the UOVO Prize by the Brooklyn Museum, the Eden Art Foundation Artists Now Award, and a regular contributor to BOMB Magazine.

This residency is funded by Sim Smith and makes possible studio research and the development of new work.