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Joseph Maida
Born
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
NationalityAmerican, Italian
EducationColumbia College, Yale University
Known forPhotography
Notable workNew Natives (2013); Things R Queer (2018); Born Free and Equal (2018)

Joseph Maida is an artist, writer and educator. Best known for his photography, Maida's work is a visual representation of the intersections between identity and culture. Maida's most significant projects include New Natives;[1] Things R Queer;[2] and Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal ________-Americans.[3] Maida earned an MFA from Yale University in 2001 and currently serves as chair of the BFA Photography and Video Department at School of Visual Arts (SVA).[4]

Early life and education

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Maida graduated summa cum laude from Columbia College in 1999 with a Bachelor of Arts in architecture and a specialization in art history. In 2001, Maida earned an Master of Fine Arts from Yale University, where they/he studied under Philip-Lorca diCorcia and Catherine Opie.[5]

Work

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While at Yale, Maida began exploring video for their/his graduate thesis. Soon after graduation from Yale University, Maida began displaying both photo and video work in group and solo exhibits nationally and abroad.

In 2013, New Natives was shown at Daniel Cooney Fine Art in New York City. The gallery exhibition marked a midpoint in a series of portraits made in Hawaii between 2010 and 2015 of male-identifying, Hawaiian-born aspiring models. Maida sourced models through social media, thus acknowledging contemporary changes in the relationship between the local and the global.[6] New Natives explored identity, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity within the complexity of Hawaii's unique culture and history. A monograph of New Natives was published by L'Artiere (Bologna, Italy) in 2015.[7] In 2018, Maida's series Things R Queer punctuated the publication of Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography, by Susan Bright.[8] Their/his brightly colored still-life photographs of strange dioramas made entirely of food garnered the attention of both modern platforms such as Instagram as well as traditional modes of gallery and print exhibition.[9] That same year, soon after the enactment of Donald Trump's Executive Order 13769, known as the Muslim Ban, Maida's book Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal ________-Americans was published. It revisited a book of words and images of the Manzanar Japanese internment camp in California by Ansel Adams.[10] Born Free and Equal was a contemporary perspective of Adam's work that paralleled historical events with that of the current day.[3] Maida continues to work on personal art and writing projects while teaching at a collegiate level.

Exhibitions

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Photography

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Maida's photographic work has been widely shown in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Venues include the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid;[11] Kunsthalle Wien;[12] Witte de With, Rotterdam;[13] C/O Berlin;[14] Photographers' Gallery, London;[15] Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam;[16] and the International Center of Photography (ICP), New York.[17] Interior Portraits, Maida's first solo exhibition at Wallspace New York City in 2002 explored expressions of individuals' interior selves through the interior spaces they occupied. New York Times Art Critic, Ken Johnson wrote, "hanging around the homes of his friends, Mr. Maida captures images of people in relaxed, unposed and unguarded moments."[18] Maida's first international show, Dream Factory was exhibited at the Nikon Salon, first in Tokyo and then in Osaka, Japan in 2010.[19] Dream Factory was the culmination of the time that Maida had spent in Japan as a recipient of the Japan U.S. Friendship Commission Grant, granted in 2007 by the National Endowment for the Arts.[20]

Selected solo and group photo and/or video exhibitions

Video and film

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For their/his MFA thesis at Yale, Maida made the short film Hot Shots.[36] By deconstructing footage taken by their/his brother of two fraternity brothers at a college party, Maida explored how the intimacy of their relationship developed through increased intoxication.

Selected video and film screenings

Teaching

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Since 2002, Maida has been a faculty member in undergraduate photography at SVA in Manhattan. Between 2006 and 2011, they/he taught as an instructor in photography with a focus on Gender Studies at Parsons School of Design in New York City. In 2011, they/he returned to Yale as a lecturer until 2013 and then spent a year as a lecturer at State University of New York at Purchase, New York. In 2015, Maida served as a visiting critic at the University of Hawaiʻi in Honolulu.[40] In 2018, they/he was appointed chair of the BFA Photography and Video Department at SVA.[41]

Publications

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  • 2015 New Natives, L'Artiere Edizioni, Bologna, Italy, ISBN 9788887569551
  • 2018 Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal ________-Americans, Convoke, New York, ISBN 978-0-9997821-7-0

Recognition

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Exhibitions - Daniel Cooney Fine Art". www.danielcooneyfineart.com. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Things R Queer". CONVOKE. Convoke. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Born Free and Equal Book". CONVOKE. Convoke. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  4. ^ "Joseph Maida Named Chair Of BFA Photography And Video Department - SVA". School of Visual Arts | SVA | New York City. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  5. ^ a b "About". Born Free, Born Equal. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  6. ^ Pereira, Luis. "NEW YORK, "New Natives", Joseph Maida at Daniel Cooney Fine Art". Photosynthesis (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  7. ^ "New Natives". L'Artiere. L'Artiere. 19 June 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  8. ^ Cowan, Kat (25 July 2019). "Feast for the Eyes tells the story of food in photography". Creative Boom. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  9. ^ "A Photo Show That's Easy on the Eye (But Hard on the Stomach)". www.mutualart.com. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  10. ^ "Joseph Maida & Ansel Adams: Born Free & Equal (Signed)". TPG Bookshop.
  11. ^ "pero si sólo estaba actuando" (PDF). Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  12. ^ "MutualArt.com - The Web's Largest Art Information Service". www.mutualart.com. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  13. ^ a b "BODYPOLITICX". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  14. ^ a b Clipson, Ellen. "Don't Miss Aperture's 'Food for the Eyes' Exhibition". EyeEm. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  15. ^ a b Gallery, The Photographers'. "Feast for the Eyes – The Story of Food in Photography at The Photographers' Gallery". Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  16. ^ a b "Feast for the Eyes – The Story of Food in Photography | Past exhibition". Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  17. ^ "A Third Look". International Center of Photography. 8 January 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  18. ^ a b Johnson, Ken (20 September 2002). "ART GUIDE". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  19. ^ a b "TAB Event - Joseph Maida "Dream Factory"". www.tokyoartbeat.com. Tokyo Art Beat. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  20. ^ "IHJ Art Programs/ Concerts 2008". IHJ Programs. International House of Japan. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  21. ^ "About the Mind (Not Everything You Always Wanted to Know)". Queens Museum. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  22. ^ "Unbecoming". melissa m. caldwell.
  23. ^ "Get Off! at Museum of Sex". MoSEX. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  24. ^ "Copilandia" (PDF). www.copilandia.org. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  25. ^ "pero si sólo estaba actuando" (PDF). Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  26. ^ "2007 Artists". IHJ Programs. International House of Japan. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  27. ^ Schwendener, Martha (May 3, 2007). "Creative and Commercial: The Starving Artist Has to Eat". The New York Times.
  28. ^ "「Formal Issues」展 コミュニティーセンターakta ::: アートインデックス art-index". www.art-index.net. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  29. ^ "MutualArt.com - The Web's Largest Art Information Service". www.mutualart.com.
  30. ^ "大阪ニコンサロン 2010年4月 － 写真展 － ニコンサロン | ニコンイメージング". www.nikon-image.com. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  31. ^ "MutualArt.com - The Web's Largest Art Information Service". www.mutualart.com.
  32. ^ Abi (18 December 2015). "Medium of Desire". GAYLETTER. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  33. ^ "New Natives". ACC Art Books US. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  34. ^ "MutualArt.com - The Web's Largest Art Information Service". www.mutualart.com.
  35. ^ "Feast For The Eyes: Press Release". March 1, 2020.
  36. ^ "[Untitled], 2001". Archives at Yale. Yale University. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  37. ^ "Медиа Форум 2003". mediaforum.mediaartlab.ru. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  38. ^ "Film Fylkingen program ht 2004 | Fylkingen". fylkingen.se. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  39. ^ "Kinomuseum". The Artistic Estate of Ian White. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  40. ^ "[EXHIBITION] ON O'AHU : TWO VIEWS". Department of Art and Art History: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. University of Hawaiʻi. 12 February 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  41. ^ "Joseph Maida Named Chair of BFA Photography and Video Department - SVA".
  42. ^ "PDN's 30 2004". Photo District News. 18 March 2004. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  43. ^ "Here and Elsewhere: AIM 27". www.bronxmuseum.org. The Bronx Museum of the Arts. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  44. ^ "Biennial Report 2007" (PDF). The Japan-United States Friendship Commission. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
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