Over her career, Joni Maya Oye-Benintende has exhibited in the U.S. and Japan, most recently in several one person shows. Her work has been accepted at two Pennsylvania Art of the State exhibitions as well as other regional juried shows.
She is an emerita professor at East Stroudsburg University of PA where she taught ceramics, sculpture and drawing and was the Art + Design department chair. As director of the Madelon Powers Art Gallery at ESU, she oversaw numerous exhibitions featuring
local, regional and national artists and received numerous grants from the PA State Council of the Arts and other entities to support exhibitions and workshops.
Joni currently resides in Stroudsburg, PA. She received her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and her MFA from Tama Fine Art University in Tokyo, Japan.