Joseph Maidais an artist, writer, and educator, who chairs the BFA Photography and Video Department at New York's School of Visual Arts. Maida has exhibited his work extensively in the United States, Europe, Japan and China in solo exhibitions at Wallspace, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, the Nikon Salons, Tokyo and Osaka, and 403 International Art Center, Wuhan, among others. Maida's work has also been included in group exhibitions in New York at the International Center for Photography (ICP); Yancey Richardson Gallery; Art in General; Artists Space; the Queens Museum; and the Bronx Museum and internationally at Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam; the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; the Kunsthalle Wien; the Witte de With, Rotterdam; C/O Berlin; and the Photographers’ Gallery, London, among others. Maida's commissioned work has appeared in publications such asThe New York Times Magazine,New YorkMagazine,W,Wallpaper*, andVice, and Maida's monographsNew NativesandBorn Free and Equalwere published by L’Artiere (Bologna, Italy) in 2015 and CONVOKE (New York, NY) in 2018 respectively. Maida earned his BAsumma cum laudein architecture and art history from Columbia University and his MFA in photography from Yale University.