Pamela Joseph is a multi-media artist who has exhibited nationally and internationally, in locations such as Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen, and Beijing. In 2003 and 2004, she was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. Joseph's work has been described as "well-executed, powerful and edgy" by the Colorado Council on the Arts, who awarded her a Visual Arts Fellowship in 2001. She works and resides in Aspen, Colorado.

In the fall of 2009, Pamela will have a solo show at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art in New York. Her traveling, interactive installation, The Sideshow of the Absurd, was recently on exhibit at artspace in Shreveport, LA. The Sideshow has been exhibited at nine Museums and galleries in the United States, garnering outstanding reviews and record-breaking crowds.

The Hundred Headless Women, a wall installation of wood-burned kitchen cutting boards, was originally created in 2001 for The Torture Museum in The Sideshow of the Absurd. The images are of women in perilous and dangerous situations. New wood-burned drawings have continued to the present. The name pays homage to Max Ernst’s brilliant novel of collages and engravings, The Hundred Headless Woman.

In 2006, the cutting board wall was exhibited in Decades of Influence: Colorado 1985 to Present, curated by Director Cynde Payton, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver and Houston Center for Contemporary Crafts, in Finding Balance, curated by James Surls.

The Hundred Headless Women artist book is a limited hand-made edition jointly published by The Institute for Electronic Art at Alfred University and Ma Nose Studios, Aspen, Colorado. The book is dedicated to all the women throughout the world whose lowly status, appalling circumstances and hardships are a source of pain and inspiration to the artist. Also recently published in 2008 is a new Hundred Headless Women paperback.

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