[ B I O G R A P H Y ]

Joseph Ostraff is a professor of art at Brigham Young University. He received a BFA from Brigham Young University and a MFA from the University of Washington. He’s married to Melinda Weston, an ethno-botanist and they have six children. They have collaborated extensively over the past thirty years. This interaction has had a deep impact on his art practice. They have worked together developing significant collaborative projects with Wirral Met, Liverpool, England; Kau Taha Mataika, Vava’u, Tonga; and Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, Whakatane, New Zealand, resulting in three documentary films and numerous exhibitions in painting, video installations, works on paper and book arts. Recent paint-based exhibitions included; Abstraction at Large, An International Juried Exhibition, Site: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY (2018) and 2017 International Juried Exhibition at The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ.