Aliyah Ben-Joseph is a digital and fine arts artist who graduated Magna Cum Laude from California State University at Chico with a Bachelor’s in
Fine Arts.
Inspired by the lush greenery from her birthplace of the Big Island of Hawaii and small country hometown in the Santa Cruz area, her work heavily incorporates
nature and plantlife. This flora is an integral part of the imagined world Ben-Joseph’s art exists within, concerned with often uncomfortable aspects of
the human experience. Common themes that are featured in her work include the following: isolation, stagnation, perception, rebirth, cycles, and mortality. These
concepts are expressed through a created language of mythology tracing back to Ben-Joseph’s mixed cultural background and influences, casting a light on the
universal nature of the subject matter.
Ben-Joseph enjoys creating in a variety of disciplines including printmaking, acrylic and watercolor painting, charcoal and graphite drawing, animation, and
pen and ink stop motion. Her work has been published through her family’s farm company in Hawaii, album covers of a multitude of artists local to her
hometown, CSU East Bay’s student magazine, and exhibited in several gallery shows on the Chico State campus. In addition to her time at Chico State, she
has received training at Vermont’s Champlain College, Coronado School of the Arts, San Diego Watercolor Society, and University of Florence in Italy.