Joy Episalla (born in 1957 in Bronxville, New York)[1] is an American visual artist known for her hybrid photographic and sculptural works.
[1] In the 1990s she became involved with AIDS activism, and worked with groups such as ACT UP, fierce pussy and The Marys.
Episalla has been a member of the fierce pussy art collective from 1991 to the present.
[4] Her work is represented in the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou,[5] the Rose Art Museum,[6] the Victoria and Albert Museum (with fierce pussy) [7] among other venues.
Her oral history is held in the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art.