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Joanna Tam is a Hong Kong-born, Boston-based interdisciplinary artist and educator. Using video, photography, performance, installation, and community engagement, her work examines the issues of migration, construction of national identity, the notion of home, and one’s connection to a place. Joanna’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Her projects were awarded Best Art Film at the Aesthetica Short Film Festival in York, UK, and the People’s Choice Award and Third Prize at the Prix de la Photographie, Paris. She was also the recipient of the 2020 SMFA Traveling Fellowship. Joanna has been the artist-in-residence at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Boston Children’s Museum, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her work has appeared in the Boston Globe, the Boston Art Review, Artscope, and Emergency Index. She co-founded and co-operated the exhibition and studio space Howard Art Project from 2011 – 2015. Joanna holds an MFA degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.

Industry Experience

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

• 2019 – American Studies 2019, Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 2019 Wasenstraße Story, Chrom VI, Idar-Oberstein, Germany
• 2016 – Let’s Story, Boston Children’s Museum, Boston, MA
• 2015 – I’m American (Happy 4th Edition), AC Institute, New York, NY 2015 Standard Practice, Carol Schlosberg Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA

Selected Group Exhibitions, Screenings and Performances:

• 2021 – Routine Maintenance Virtual Performance Festival, University of North Florida Gallery of Art
• 2020 – Present Histories Redefined, VanDernoot Gallery, Cambridge, MA
• 2019 – Dot Now, University Hall Gallery, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA
• 2019 – Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
• 2018 – Resistant Currents, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA

Selected Publications, Presentations, and Media:

• 2021 – “Shifting Contours”, Boston Art Review Issue 07: Rooting, published by Boston Art Review, Boston
• 2020 – Presentation at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
• 2020 – Presentation at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
• 2020 – Harrington, Leah Triplett. “Virtual Studio Visit | Joanna Tam” N+T Journal, May 20, 2020.
• 2018 – Presentation at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Awards, Reconitions, Honors:

• 2021 – Boston Center for the Arts Studio Residency (2021 – 2023), Boston MA
• 2021 – Semi-Finalist, Colorado International Activism Film Festival
• 2020 – SMFA at Tufts 2020 Traveling Fellowship, Boston, MA
• 2012 – Best Art Film, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, United Kingdom
• 2009 – People’s Choice Award (Subcategory), Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3) 2009 Third Prize (Subcategory), Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3)

Collections:

• Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
• Center for Photography at Woodstock’s Permanent Print Collection, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, NY

Connect:

• joannatam.net