Melissa Joseph is interested in connecting people through collective memory and shared experiences. Her work addresses themes of diaspora, family histories and the politics of how we occupy spaces. Her work has been shown at the Lite Haus Gallery, Delaware Contemporary, Woodmere Art Museum, Southern Exposure, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, NADA Miami, and featured in New American Paintings, ArtMaze, Maake Magazine, and ZYZZYVA. She participated in residencies at the Center // Substructured Loss (Berlin), the Growlery (SF) Chautauqua Visual Arts (NY) the Textile Arts Center (NY) BRIC (NY), Fountainhead Arts (FL) and the Dieu Donné Workspace Residency (NY) and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program (NY). She is represented by REGULARNORMAL Gallery in New York.