A Third Look

About Joseph Maida

Joseph Maida is 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 as The New York Times Magazine New York Magazine W Wallpaper* and Vice and Maida's monographs New Natives and Born Free and Equal were published by LArtiere (Bologna Italy) in 2015 and CONVOKE (New York NY) in 2018 respectively. Maida earned his BA summa cum laude in architecture and art history from Columbia University and his MFA in photography from Yale University. Zackary Drucker (born 1983) is an independent artist cultural producer and trans woman who breaks down the way we think about gender sexuality and seeing. She has performed and exhibited her work internationally in museums galleries and film festivals including the Whitney Biennial 2014 MoMA PS1 Hammer Museum Art Gallery of Ontario MCA San Diego and SF MoMA among others. Drucker is an Emmy-nominated Producer for the docu-series This Is Me as well as a Producer on Golden Globe and Emmy-winning Transparent.