BCA Studio Resident Alum

Joanna Tam is a Hong Kong-born visual artist who lives and works on the ancestral and unceded lands of the Wampanoag, the Nipmuc, and the Massachusett People, also known as Boston. Her interdisciplinary practice examines migration, the construction of national identity, the idea of safety, and one’s connection to places through video, photography, performance, installation, and community engagement. Tam is the recipient of the 2024 Prilla Smith Brackett Award (presented by Davis Museum at the Wellesley College), the 2024 Collective Futures Fund’s Sustaining Practice Grant, and the 2020 SMFA Traveling Fellowship.

Tam’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Selected solo exhibitions include American Studies 2019 at the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University; Visibility Studies at Regis College Fine Arts Center; Wasenstraße Story at Chrom VI in Idar-Oberstein, Germany; Let’s Story at the Boston Children’s Museum; and American Studies at the Teaching Gallery at Hudson Valley Community College, Troy NY. She has been invited to attend artist residencies at Kala Art Institute, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Boston Center for the Arts, the Boston Children’s Museum, the Vermont Studio Center, and Wedding Cake House. Her work has appeared in the Boston Globe, the Boston Art Review, Artscope, and Emergency Index. She holds an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.