Joseph Liatela

Joseph Liatela is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. Using performance, sculpture, and video, he makes work that examines issues of biopolitics, memorial, trans and queer subjectivities, and collective movement.

Liatela has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Marli Motsumoto (São Paulo), Proyecto Galería (Mexico City), Galerie Du Montparnasse (Paris), Denniston Hill (New York), Human Resources (Los Angeles), The Jewish Museum (New York), Leslie-Lohman Museum (New York), and Marian Goodman Gallery (New York), among others. His debut museum solo exhibition Nothing Under Heaven was presented at George Segal Galleries in 2022. 

Liatela earned a BFA with distinction from California College of the Arts and an MFA in sculpture and expanded media from Columbia University. He has been awarded grants and fellowships from the Zellerbach Family Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, The Banff Centre, California College of the Arts, Columbia University, the Van Lier Fellowship, among others. His writing has been published by the Leslie-Lohman Museum Journal, Oxford University Press, and Duke University Press. Liatela’s work has been featured in Artsy, The Leslie-Lohman Museum Journal, SF MoMA’s Open Space, EMERGENCY Index, ArtNews, Hyperallergic, Artforum, and Art & Education.

Current and recent exhibitions include Faith By Night solo exhibition at SPACES in Cleveland, Ohio, and Ex-Voto solo exhibition at Fragment Gallery in New York City. Current exhibitions include Scientia Sexualis at ICA LA curated by Jennifer Doyle and Jeanne Vaccaro as part of Pacific Standard Time, as well as I’m A Thousand Different People–Every One Is Real at Leslie-Lohman Museum in New York City.