Joan Lurie is a Brooklyn-based ceramic artist who studied photography at Rochester Institute of Technology, New York University, and the International Center of Photography (MA 1987).
Joan received an Individual Photographer's Fellowship from the Aaron Siskind Foundation in 1991 after exhibiting her photography around the United States.
Her interest in clay stemmed from her photographic work, which included the images of ceramics and other crafts, micro and macro photographs of biological and plant forms, architecture, and technology. Joan began focusing solely on ceramics in the year 2000. Her ceramic work were exhibited at the International Ceramics Competition in Mino, Japan, the International Festival of Postmodern Ceramics in Croatia, the International Ceramics Biennale in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, the Affordable Art Fair in New York, Art Chicago, Art Market Hamptons, Scope Miami, Scope New York, and Art Houston, among others. Joan worked as a resident artist at the Museum of Art and Design in 2009.