Masha Joy

“My work lives where feelings are louder than explanations.”
Hi, my name Masha Joy and my work explores emotional intensity as a physical and visual experience. I am drawn to adolescence not only as an age, but as a state of becoming — unstable, vulnerable, and radically honest.
I work with both portraits and figurative scenes, using the human body as a carrier of mood, tension, and inner movement. Figures often appear calm or contained, while color reveals emotional overflow, contradiction, and unspoken energy.
As a self-taught artist, I trust intuition over correction. Color becomes a primary language — not illustrative, but emotional — allowing feelings to surface before they are organized or controlled.
I am interested in moments when identity is still forming, when confidence and insecurity coexist, and when emotions resist being muted.
My work stays with this intensity — without resolution, without volume control.

Self touched

02.2020 Group exhibition at Aldau Art Promenade, Hurghada, Egypt.
09.2018 Solo exhibition at Ostraca Gallery, Hurghada, Egypt.
03.2016 Solo exhibition at Mashrabia Gallery of Fine Arts, Cairo, Egypt.
05.2014 Solo exhibition at Center of Arts , Cairo, Egypt.
07.2013 Solo exhibition at Zamalek Art Gallery
10.2012 Group exhibition at Old Egypt for Fine Art, Cairo, Egypt.
01.2011 Solo Exhibition at National Center for Contemporary Arts, Belarus.
03.2010 Group exhibition at National Art museum, Minsk, Belarus.
12.2009 Group exhibition in Palace of Rumyantsev and Paskeviches, Gomel Belarus.