I am a wanderer.
My desire to engage with diverse aesthetic constructs is rooted in my history as an interdisciplinary artist. My personal practice interrogates presence and absence in the performance of identity, through image, text, performance, and installation as containers for inquiry. I create work within relational containers of inquiry across dance, performance, and installation, using the conundrum of identity as the connective thread.
I recognize that being in this world is a complicated performance of reality constructs, values, and vulnerabilities. I strive to share these challenges within the environments of my work. I don’t seek to answer questions but to question underlying assumptions.
My work has been presented and supported by The Kitchen, Danspace Project, Movement Research, The Bronx Museum, Performance Space NY, Invisible Dog, and Fondation Cartier. Writings and visual work have been published by 2wice, Wendy’s Subway, Dancing While Black Journal, Performa, the3rdthingpress, and Archives of American Art Journal.
Awards and fellowships include “Bessie” Awards for Sustained Achievement (2001) and for Outstanding Production for he his own mythical beast (2018), NYFA, US Artists, MacDowell, Yaddo, Rauschenberg, LMCC, Foundation for Contemporary Art (2022), Herb Alpert Award (2025), Martha Hill Mid-Career Award (2026), and the Rauschenberg Centennial Award in Performance (2026).
My history as a performer embraces a wide range of collaborative projects, including artists Remy Charlip, Bebe Miller, Trisha Brown (’87-’93), Ralph Lemon, Tracie Morris, Sekou Sundiata, Meg Stuart, Alain Buffard, Marina Abramović, Maria Hassabi, Kaneza Schaal, Yvonne Rainer, Deborah Hay, Yanira Castro, and Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born, amongst many others. I have had the pleasure of performing with the Drama Desk-nominated a capella performance group, Hot Mouth, founded by Grisha Coleman, Jonathan Stone, Viola Sheely, and me.
Recent projects include Donna Uchizono’s Dedication Dances, serving as Movement Director and performer in Matthew Barney’s Secondary and TACTICAL parallax, Lucinda Child’s reconstruction of Street Dance, and curating (Re)imagining Sustainability, an initiative inviting artists to dream into and reconceptualize the art and performance ecosystem, as part of the Lunder Institute Summer Think Tank.
As an arts administrator and database consultant, he has worked with several organizations, including the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Merce Cunningham Foundation, Dieu Donné Papermill, the National Performance Network, and Movement Research. I developed the Trisha Brown Archive Database in collaboration with Cori Olinghouse.
In 2017, I initiated the Artist Sustainability Project with Kate Watson-Wallace as an ongoing platform to expand the discourse and ideas of financial, artistic, and personal empowerment in the arts community. In 2024, Emily Waters and I co-developed YoungArts’ Artist Resource Collective, a program dedicated to financial wellness and professional development for artists.