About

joy tirade lives and works in Oakland, California. She holds a MFA in Visual Art with a concentration in photography and video from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned a BA with Distinction in Studio Art, focusing on drawing and painting, and a BA with Distinction in Art History from the University of Virginia, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest academic honor society.

Her work is part of the permanent collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco) and the Ackland Art Museum (Raleigh). She has been exhibited internationally at venues including The Kamloops Art Gallery (British Columbia), Universitet i Oslo (Norway), Vilnius Academy of Arts and Ideas Block LT (Lithuania), and CICA Museum (South Korea).

In the U.S., she has exhibited widely, including at The Mint Museum, Ackland Art Museum, CAM, The Carrack, and LUMP in North Carolina; The Garage, The Bridge PAI, WTVF/Radio IQ Gallery, New City Arts, Art Works Gallery, The IX Building, and Ruffin Gallery at the University of Virginia; as well as The Masur Museum (Monroe, LA), The Fluorescent Gallery (Nashville), The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center (Covington, KY), Red Ink Studios (San Francisco), SFMOMA (San Francisco), and LACDA (Los Angeles).

Her work has appeared in publications such as The Third Coast, The Virginia Literary Review, 3.7, Summmer, and Mildred Pierce zine. Most recently, it was featured on a Routledge Press book cover.