https://www.josephliatela.com/works daily 0.75 2026-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1501621084831-39FBFES5697DEU6TAVC9/20170722_DennistonHill_WhitneyBrowne-9358.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1515543883880-157MB478DJSZZKQTP8C6/Liatela_Joseph_08.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1515543945621-7V1GMV1KNJ5CLC5GGOUW/Liatela_Joseph_04.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1528398546999-QO1PB0HCN50ORLHWTAA4/a.JPG Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1528398864847-DI5IYMY37NHKZYKLYBYR/ST+install+1+edited.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1537977168996-QTSY7GQIN7ROU3Y27BRL/Joseph_Liatela_Performance-36.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1542597921983-HU6Z7ZI80CASF3D6A04L/ATB+Objects+install+shot+2+edited.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1554919119790-TFJJG1GD9BVUOWK53QK4/image-asset.jpeg Projects - Unquantifiable Mass (hospital gown) 2019 | latex engraved with hospital gown pattern, medical sutures, curtain pull chain, stainless steel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1556042123875-D6L4N9C9IQYKMALC57G1/ground+hard+point+piece.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1471294254225-W4KLBP4WUUQVJK7S50S3/Screen+Shot+2016-08-04+at+7.21.07+PM.jpg Projects - Trans Etherium Film still | TRT of film: 00:08:48 In this endurance video performance piece, I undergo multiple forms of rope bondage during a progression of physical transformation. Drawing a parallel to my experience of deferring medical transition, the rope bondage at first provides a feeling of safety, until the body reaches an inevitable physical threshold and must be released in order to prevent lasting physical damage. In the final stage of transformation, I release myself from the rope and shed the hair shielding my face, making eye contact with the viewer and embodying a new form. Shot/Edited: Aja Pop Make Up: Melissa Capistrano Rope: FiveStar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1501172054673-LN6MS3Z8XIYPSGH7A4EI/Wearable+resized+and+edited+07.27.17.jpg Projects - Shedding (ecdysis) 2016 | 27 x 54 in | digital print on organza | ‘Shedding (ecdysis)’ is a digital print of my pre-surgery body sewn into an organza fabric wearable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1522957813075-8EIQ7NM241YFISINX4XJ/recapitulation+1A.jpg Projects - Recapitulation 2017 | 17 x 22 in | archival inkjet print I lay in a fetal position on the ocean shore until my body is submerged in sand | TRT of Peformance: 3 hours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1515285747823-VK7J1BEMKE11F925V82B/surface+tension+install+shot+for+press+1.jpg Projects - Cloaked 2018 | 127 x 101 x 87 in (dimensions vary) | latex, nylon medical sutures, archival photo transfers, stainless steel "The impossibility of erasing one's sexed history is evident in the fact that many states still refuse to change gender markers on birth certificates (...)Legal gender in these cases cannot be altered, but only cloaked. Similarly, cultural representations of gender variant people depend on the popular notion that with enough scrutiny, one's "true" gender can be revealed at the level of the body" -Toby Beauchamp installed at The Center for Sex and Culture for Surface Tension solo exhibition curated by Dorothy Santos. Photo by Kimberley Acebo Arteche https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1554144300259-C0EQ6SOJVSTAKSIXVL1X/AD190328_DSC9982.jpg Projects - Formative Systems 2019 | 16 x 32 x 71 in | hemp rope, waiting room chairs | made with the support of The Banff Centre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1544486793442-BZQXPRAWNNZIXKC6LFIH/jliatela1.jpg Projects - If I could attach our blood vessels in order to anchor you to the earth to this present time I would 2018 | archival inkjet print | 11 x 14 in A portrait of the artist and their partner “... I am consumed in the sense of your weight the way your flesh occupies momentary space the fullness of it beneath my palms. I am amazed at how perfectly your body fits to the curves of my hands. If I could attach our blood vessels so we could become each other I would. If I could attach our blood vessels in order to anchor you to the earth to this present time I would. If I could open up your body and slip inside your skin and look out your eyes and forever have my lips fused with yours I would. It makes me weep to feel the history of your flesh beneath my hands in a time of so much loss. It makes me weep to feel the movement of your flesh beneath my palms as you twist and turn over to one side to create a series of gestures to reach up around my neck to draw me nearer. All these memories will be lost in time like tears in the rain.” – excerpt from David Wojnarowicz’s When I Put My Hands On Your Body (1987) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1561479432319-X29PDV91FZNH7BYXJS0M/20190615_JosephLiatela_QueerGalaxies_WhitneyBrowne-0233.jpg Projects - Passage 2019 | Live Performance | Stellar Projects Gallery, New York, NY Inspired by Simone Forti’s Huddle (1961) and Bruce Nauman’s Walking In an Exaggerated Manner Around the Perimeter of a Square (1968), Passage explores notions of political exhaustion/endurance, community support networks, and intimacy between similarly coded bodies in public space. My collaborator and I take turns lifting and carrying one another around the parameter of a city block, pausing to perform gestures of intimacy and care. Performed for SUBLIMATION at Stellar Projects Gallery in New York City Curated by Nathan Storey Freeman and Ksenia Soboleva Performers: Joseph Liatela and John Macejka Outfits: Gogo Graham Photography: Whitney Browne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1547445401336-WTCWQ67ODFH0MZXNLLD2/feedback+loop+1a.jpg Projects - Feedback Loop (cast chest binders) 2018 | 82 x 68 x 34 in | silicone, plywood, stainless steel, rope This piece consists of my old chest binders (clothing items used to flatten one’s chest) cast into silicone abstract bodily forms on top of stainless steel plates. The wooden platform is suspended from the ceiling using shibari rope ties. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1582785917399-1BAAKUYUDTNFEEN62PVB/on+being+an+idea+1.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1617125048198-AYYZDR4ETGP88SN1C605/image.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1618414870081-PDKYZEKRHJP1GPRDV4K3/Domination+Choreographies.jpg Projects Domination Choreographies | 2021 | sculpture and video installation at Headlands Center for the Arts, in a former US military gym https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1654732453809-UQ775V07K10JM4XFVY23/20220515_JosephLiatela_ToMoveIsToRememberWhitneyBrowne-9040+copy.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1654776610169-KHJHE94Q8DI3J62BPEW5/mouthguard+detail.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1495131377965-MPSP9CI65NYBLU6YNIQO/IMG_6440.jpg Projects - untitled X | collagraph and monotype on paper | 22"x30" | 2016 PROXIMITY is a collagraph and monotype print series relating to identity through human interaction, eroticism versus intimacy, and humans projecting fantasies onto other human bodies. By destroying my old clothing in the printmaking process, I create fragmented images which reference memory, fluidity, trauma, rebirth, and failure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1653864512137-Y3PPZX0C68X1KMR4S14Y/22-05-19Columbia+23+web.jpg Projects Wielding The Night Columbia MFA 2022 Thesis Installation To Move Is To Remember 2022 Sound by Anthony Sertel Dean Welded aluminum, granite, leds, 49 star gazer lillies, pigment, mdf, acrylic, water, necklace chain, sound composition with recordings from dance floors in New York City, transducers, time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1674860117150-R4RJYEF7C8X9Y8K2MGK4/archangel+gabriel+detail.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1694020340305-6XS61C5KVV6HMXI247DC/27635Liatela_South+Gallery+Installation+4.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1724464854634-7PQA62K53P1UARKNQQ8G/240419_SP_FaithByNight_JosephLiatela_008.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1724467439895-P8BROR8J1UEBPV7C322Q/Joseph+Liatela_Ex-Voto_Installation+Views_1.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1639103831426-9LN5ZL1P25U7ZIP63AQI/Detail_Stargazers.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1762200285649-SAYRC16VWI4DOPC5KHW1/Dependency+2025+closeup+up+copy.jpg Projects https://www.josephliatela.com/available-works daily 0.75 2025-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1728599900793-VKMAM2EXFLNHAG83514B/Liatela_Movement+Study+V+final+copy.jpg Available Works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1728600029141-9FKMBW5AI8U5MZ8AY1N4/Towards+Grace+I.jpg Available Works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/e66c56b7-14ea-47b1-90de-26f96f92a039/Liatela_Towards+Grace+V+detail_2024.jpg Available Works https://www.josephliatela.com/enter daily 1.0 2024-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/1725562573007-M8WDMLMGQCYVHNUHPMP5/240419_SP_FaithByNight_JosephLiatela_008.jpg Enter https://www.josephliatela.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-04-14 https://www.josephliatela.com/pagecv daily 0.75 2026-02-19 https://www.josephliatela.com/bio-1 daily 0.75 2024-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/571d3b7460b5e99d45a64d97/2b744bad-2998-47ed-aaa6-ba650c03534c/Liatela+Headshot.jpg Bio Photo by Sunny Leerasanthanah