Meryl Joseph is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work is known internationally. She graduated from NYU, after intensive studies at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence. With photography and its component lighting techniques as the foundation of her career, Joseph began to evolve new applications for theatre lighting and set design.

Her work includes photography, filmmaking, painting and kinetic sculpture, which often includes a water element. Incorporating principles of adaptive re-use, Joseph recently designed and supervised the renovation of a three story, 1917 brick building in Pittsfield, MA.

In April of 2008, WE ARE THEY, a sculpture comprising mirrored glass, stone and water, was installed as part of a group exhibit commemorating the opening of the newly completed Garthwaite Center for Science & Art at the Cambridge School of Weston, in Weston, MA. To construct and create this piece. Joseph worked closely with the students at the school.

Joseph's award winning documentaries, which focus on the personal voice as well as the collective narrative, have received numerous awards, and have been screened in film festivals in the US and Europe. Meryl worked with communities in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan for the documentary CITY FARMERS, which takes a deep look at the community gardening movement in New York City. Both CITY FARMERS and INTO THE MAINSTREAM have been accepted into the curated collection of Re:Frame (Tribeca Film Institute). Meryl recently served two terms on the board of New York Women in Film and Television as a Programming Director, and will soon direct STOLEN GOODS, her debut feature.