Joseph Liatela is an transdisciplinary artist based in New York City. Using performance, sculpture, and video, he makes work that examines issues of biopolitics, memorial, trans and queer subjectivities, embodiment, and collective movement. Liatela’s work has been included in exhibitions for Denniston Hill, Human Resources LA, Paul Robeson Galleries at Rutgers University, The Monmouth Museum, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, BRIC, PS122 Gallery, The Jewish Museum, Proyecto Galería CDMX, SUM Gallery (Vancouver, BC), among others.  

Liatela’s work has been featured in Artsy, The Leslie-Lohman Museum Journal, SF MoMA’s Open Space, KQED Arts, Strange Fire Collective, Revista De La Universidad De México, ArtNews, Hyperallergic, Artforum, and Art & Education. He has attended residencies at Signal Fire Arts, Vermont Studio Center, The Wassaic Project, Denniston Hill, The Kala Institute, and The Banff Centre. He is a recipient of awards and fellowships from the Zellerbach Family Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, The Wassaic Project, Denniston Hill, California College of the Arts, Columbia University, and the Banff Centre. He possesses an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University.