Marcelle Joseph is an American-born independent curator and collector based in London. In 2011, Joseph founded Marcelle Joseph Projects, a nomadic curatorial platform that has produced over 45 exhibitions in the UK and the rest of Europe, featuring the work of over 300 international artists. Joseph holds an MA in Art History with Distinction from Birkbeck, University of London with a specialization in feminist art practice. Her curatorial work focuses on gender and the performative construction of identity with an emphasis on material-led artistic practices. Joseph is the executive editor of Korean Art: The Power of Now (Thames & Hudson, 2013). Additionally, Joseph is the Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of Mimosa House, London. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of Procreate Project, London, and the Selection Panel of PLOP Residency, London. She served as a trustee of Matt's Gallery in London from 2018-2022 and served on the jury of the 2017-2019 Max Mara Art Prize for Women, in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery and Collezione Maramotti, and the Mother Art Prize 2018. She also collects artworks by female-identifying artists under the collecting partnership, GIRLPOWER Collection, as well as more generally as part of the Marcelle Joseph Collection. From 2020-22, Joseph acted as Curatorial Consultant for Lychee One, a commercial gallery located in East London. The group exhibition 'Dancing at the Edge of the World' curated by Joseph at the Sara Zanin Gallery in Rome in 2020 was reviewed by ArtForum in their July/August 2020 ediiton. In 2022, her collection was on public display for the first time in the UK in a travelling exhibition co-curated by Joseph launched at the Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, Rugby. Joseph also co-curated her first museum exhibition in the United States in 2022 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles titled ‘The Condition of Being Addressable’.
Marcelle Joseph, an American who has lived in the United Kingdom for over 29 years, has studied art history since her university studies in the US, which included a substantial concentration in art history. After completing degrees at Cornell University, NYU Law School and Brasenose College at Oxford University, Ms. Joseph practiced corporate law for over a decade at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York and London, while also becoming actively involved in a number of charitable and arts-related organizations. After leaving the legal profession, she furthered her arts education by completing additional study programmes in art, including a certificate course in art business at Christie’s Education in London in 2010 and an MA in Art History at Birkbeck, University of London in 2017-18. She currently supports as a patron the Royal Academy Schools, Mimosa House, Goldsmith's CCA and the UK Friends of the National Museum of Women in the Arts.