Yung-Jung ( Joyce) Lai is a Taiwanese photographer and visual artist based in New York. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Photography at Parsons School of Design, following a background in global marketing and visual communication.

Working across photography, installation, moving image, experimental photographic processes, image transfer, and archival materials, Lai explores solitude, memory, collective behavior, identity, and the relationship between people and the environments they inhabit. Her practice moves between staged and observational approaches, often combining personal experience with broader questions of belonging, social structures, and place.

Lai is particularly interested in expanding photography beyond the image itself, treating photographs as physical objects, traces, and fragments that can carry memory, absence, and transformation. Through material experimentation and site-responsive processes, her work considers how images shift in meaning through context, surface, and space.

Brooklyn, NY · +1 617-697-2337 · joycelai626@gmail.com

Solo Exhibitions

  • Nothing Stays in Place, Spitsbergen Artist Center — Longyearbyen, Svalbard, 2026

Group Exhibitions

  • Fault Line, Photoville Group Exhibition — New York, NY, 2026

  • Crossing Path Exhibition, Usagi NY — Brooklyn, NY, Jul 2025

  • Pingyao International Photography Festival — Pingyao, China, 2025

Residencies

  • Artist-in-Residence, Spitsbergen Artists Center, Longyearbyen, Svalbard · Sep 2026

Experience

  • Design & Creative Intern, SPACS Art Gallery,  New York, NY
    July, 2026 – Present

  • Freelance Photographer & Visual Producer, New York, NY
    2023 – Present

  • Co-Founder & CMO, NULL Investing LLC, Taipei, Taiwan
    Jun 2021 – Jan 2024

Selected Creative Projects

  • Event Photographer, Pratt Center for Climate Adaptation (CCA) — Governors Island, NY
    Sep 2024

  • Interior Design Photography, Position Studio, New York, NY
    Aug 2024

Education

  • Parsons School of Design, The New School — MFA in Photography, Merit Scholarship
    Expected 2026 · New York, NY

  • Boston University — MA in Advertising
    Sep 2022 – May 2024 · Boston, MA

  • Musashino University — BA in Global Business
    Sep 2018 – Mar 2022 · Tokyo, Japan