Joanna Cortez (b. Escondido, California) received a BFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design with a concentration in Global Processes and an MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University with a focus in printmaking. In 2025, Joanna received an Andy Warhol Grant via Interlace and Wedding Cake House for her project Keeping Palestine Amplified through Enamel, Fabric, and Traditional Motifs. Work from that project was shown in her solo shows Yesterday & Today and There’s a Hole in the World Where a Home Use to Be. Recently, Joanna was a 2025-26 Fellow at the Kala Art Institute, and was recently chosen to receive a 2026 MacColl Johnson Fellowship with a partnering residency at the Ucross Foundation.

She lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island.