Joseph Maida (American and Italian, born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an artist based in New York City. His work explores enduring, if outmoded, notions of postwar domesticity as they relate to both the American home and the United States’ identity from within and abroad.

His projects include Interior Portraits, a series of psychological portraits of fellow American artists at home, alone, with their possessions; amailstripper4u, a suite of videos created from footage produced by a Midwestern 22 year-old, who performs and records personalized strip-teases in his basement to sell over the Internet; the New Natives, a group of monumental portraits of aspiring male models from Hawaii posing in their native landscape; and Dream Factory, a visual exploration of the promises and shortcomings of contemporary Japanese culture as it reflects and reinterprets the American Dream.

Maida's work has been exhibited in New York at venues including the Bronx Museum of Art, the Queens Museum of Art, Wallspace, the Homefront Gallery, Art In General, Artists Space, and PS122, and internationally at institutions including the Reina Sofia National Museum (Madrid), the Pro-Arte Center (St. Petersburg), the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam), the Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna), and the Nikon Salons (Tokyo and Osaka). His work has been supported by organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. His editorial commissions have appeared in magazines such as The New York Times Magazine, New York, W, Details, GQ, The London Telegraph Sunday Magazine, Newsweek, House and Garden, Tokion, and *wallpaper.

Maida received a B.A., summa cum laude, from Columbia University, where he studied architecture and art history, and an M.F.A. in photography from Yale University. Maida has taught since 2002 at the School of Visual Arts and Parsons, the New School for Design. In 2011, he was appointed lecturer at Yale University’s School of Art.