Joy Episalla

Artist Talk

October 11, 2025 at 5 p.m.
Building 305, South Gallery

As part of Centrum's Emerging Artist Residency program, we are very excited to welcome Visiting Guest Artist Joy Episalla to both mentor our Emerging Artist Residents and hold an Artist Talk on Saturday, October 11th. Please join us to learn more about Joy's work in Centrum's building 305, South Gallery. This event is free and open to the public. For more information email lpratt@centrum.org.
 
Joy Episalla is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist whose work repositions photography and the moving image into the territory of sculpture. Their queer/feminist perspective is the undertow for expanding possibilities by engaging with the dynamics of transformation, multiplicity and hybridity through the mutability of materials, observation, process, time, movement, seriality and sound. Creating open-ended situations that prompt the viewer to slow down and take in the moment — in all its complexity and seeming contradictions. Museum exhibitions and screenings in the US and internationally include MoMA (NYC), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Eastman Museum (Rochester), MoMA PS1 (NYC), ICA (Pennsylvania), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Leslie-Lohman Museum (NYC), Fondation Ricard (Paris), the Wexner (Columbus), Central for Contemporary Art (Brussels), Artist Space (NYC), Phoenix Art Museum (Phoenix), and the International Center for Photography (NYC). Writing about her work has appeared in The New Yorker, BOMB, the New York Times, Two Coats of Paint, Artforum, POST Italia, Slate, and Art in America. Episalla is a founding member of the queer art collective fierce pussy.
 
Centrum's Residency Programs are made possible through the generosity of Sally Warren & Jeff Jackson, Cathy Sarkowsky, Cat Clifford, The Chin Family Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and numerous other granting agencies.