photo by Lindsay Morris / costume by Bonan Liyuniya edi kwon is a composer-improviser, multi-instrumentalist, and interdisciplinary performance maker based in New York City. Her practice connects sound, movement, and ceremony to explore transformation & transgression, ritual practice as a tool to queer ancestral lineage, and the use of mythology to connect, obscure, and reveal.
She is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in Music Composition, 2025 Creative Capital Awardee, 2023-25 Arts Fellow at Princeton University, 2025 Nina von Maltzahn Fellow at The Watermill Center, 2024 Civitella Ranieri Fellow, 2024 Bessie Award Winner for Outstanding Sound Design/Music Composition, 2023 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Robert Rauschenberg Awardee in Music/Sound, 2016 United States Artists Ford Fellow, Van Lier Fellow & Resident Artist at Roulette Intermedium, Johnson Fellow at Americans for the Arts, Andrew W. Mellon Artist-in-Residence at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, Hermitage Fellow, and a recipient of the National Performance Network Creation Fund Award.
Her work has been presented by Dia Art Foundation, Performa Biennial, New York Live Arts, Under The Radar Festival, National Sawdust, Roulette Intermedium, On The Boards, Asia Society, Poetry Project, Harlem Stage, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Monheim Triennale, and others.
She was described as “absolutely stunning” (Wire Magazine), “strange and brilliantly captivating” (Jazz Pages Germany), and “a revelation ... with her virtuoso violin and equally virtuoso voice” (Jazz Magazine Paris), and was listed as one of the Washington Post’s “22 for ‘22: Composers and performers to watch this year.”
In addition to an evolving, interdisciplinary solo practice, yuniya collaborates with artists of diverse disciplines, including The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Senga Nengudi, Du Yun, Holland Andrews, Tomeka Reid, Degenerate Art Ensemble, Kaoru Watanabe’s Bloodlines Interwoven, Kenneth Tam, PinkNoise Ensemble, isabel crespo pardo, and International Contemporary Ensemble. In 2023, she founded SUN HAN GUILD, a sound and performance collective with composer-improvisers Laura Cocks, Jessie Cox, DoYeon Kim, and Lester St. Louis.
As a violinist, violist, and/or vocalist, yuniya has created alongside Roscoe Mitchell, Moor Mother, Sun Ra Arkestra, Meshell Ndegeocello, Shahzad Ismaily, Cyro Baptista, Mary Halvorson, Nicole Mitchell, Cory Smythe, Darius Jones, Susan Alcorn, Carla Kihlstedt, Jessika Kenney, Lesley Mok, and others. She has performed throughout the Americas and Europe, including the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Kennedy Center, Big Ears Festival, Kaufman Center, Walker Art Center, Wexner Center, Stadtgarten Köln, SESC Pompeia, Barbican Centre, Jazzfest Berlin, Festival Sons d’hivers, Festival Banlieues Bleues, moers festival, and more. Commissions include Roulette Intermedium, Harlem Stage, Monheim Triennale, Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, Bang on a Can, National Performance Network, PinkNoise Ensemble, and Colorado College Creativity & Innovation.
In the 2026 - 2027 season, she premieres the experimental opera How does it feel to look at nothing with co-creator Holland Andrews in Portland, Philadelphia, Seattle, and New York City. And, after its acclaimed EU premiere at the Monheim Triennale, yuniya’s newest ensemble work silver through the grass like nothing will begin its run of US presentations.
She was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on the ancestral land of the Dakhóta and Anishinaabeg.
Press for yuniya edi kwon
“yuniya edi kwon’s silver through the grass like nothing had its own visceral composure, mapped out by a mind-boggling visual score brought to life by a god-tier ensemble of double bass, viola, violin, cello and ritual percussion. Operating well outside the lines of familiar tuning and tonality, yuniya edi kwon’s own virtuoso violin and glass-shattering vocals formed the centre of a shockingly original, perfectly realised storm.” – Crack Magazine
“through her interdisciplinary practice and cross-artist/cross-cultures collaborations, kwon blurs the boundaries between music, dance, theatre and ritual – embracing the fluidity of transition to forge entirely new forms of expression.” – The Monheim Papers
“You might think of the violin as a polite, refined, civilized instrument. Again, wrong. Under kwon’s direction, a violin ensemble unleashed the hounds of hell.” – JazzTimes
“kwon’s flexible, unpredictable violin playing was the highlight of the performance” – I Care If You Listen
“yuniya edi kwon played a striking set involving spoken word that seemed to be drawn from opera, with high energy improvisation on the violin.” – London Jazz News
“yuniya edi kwon assembled a powerful group ... which played her crystalline arrangements with dazzling precision and bite… a dazzling performance.” – Peter Margasak, Nowhere Street
Artist Statement
In my life, I use sound, movement, and ritual to create spaces of intense presence and transformation. In all I do, I hope to be radically present with the ongoing, transformational miracle of life, and to share generously with others its resonances, whispers, and subterranean logics. I draw from, and am nourished by, the spiritual and cultural continuums of queer trans artist communities from around the world, and particularly the extraordinary history of trans Korean shamans active during the periods of colonization, occupation, and rebellion. Through a relational practice, I summon an opening through which I might access a creative, spiritual ancestry that can include, support, and embrace me. To share this opening with others, then, is to co-create affirming, inclusive lineages and families, and reject limiting, cisheteropatriarchal ideas of bloodlines and biological ancestry.
UMMA-YA
UMMA-YA (Korean: MAMA-YA) tells the story of a young boy who learns she will be a mother. A solo interdisciplinary work for violin, viola, voice, and body, UMMA-YA draws from the dense, spiritual matter of Korean folk & shamanic performance traditions, and the extemporaneous sonic invention of American experimentalism. With dance and movement inspired by Japanese Butoh and Korean shamanic ritual, and storytelling that blends myth and autobiography, UMMA-YA explores transformation and transgression, queer ritual and ancestry, and the spiritual legacies of colonialism.
“Everything about this performance is intuitively tentative and exploratory. Movements intensify, melodies rise and swell, a voice begins in a whisper before soaring into a piercing lament. At times, her body twists as if gripped by an unseen force, then unfurls, arms outstretched as if to embrace the intangible. Her violin becomes an extension of her emotions – buzzing, piercing sounds alternate with floating notes reminiscent of traditional lullabies.
Through her interdisciplinary practice and cross-artist/cross-cultures collaborations, kwon blurs the boundaries between music, dance, theatre and ritual – embracing the fluidity of transition to forge entirely new forms of expression. At its core, kwon’s work is a deeply personal yet universal exploration of identity, transgender visibility, and cultural traditions.“ (Annett Scheffel, Monheim Papers)
“kwon shifts between violin, song, speech, dance, and acting with ease. Her whole body speaks...” (SeeingDance)
Commissioned and premiered by Roulette Intermedium in 2021. Made possible by a 2021 Van Lier Fellowship from Roulette Intermedium. Later presented in 2022 at Asia Society as part of MOVEMENT: Performance Platform.
yuniya edi kwon – Creator, Director, Performer
Sueann Leung – Costume Design
Charles Nicola – Makeup Design
Kalle Miller – Scenic Altars Fabrication
Mengwen Cao – Portrait Photos
silver through the grass like nothing
silver through the grass like nothing finds kwon stretching her capacities as a composer, performer, and director, as she leads an international ensemble of improvisers through an immersive and dynamic sound world. With a compositional voice that ventures from elemental textures to crystalline modernism, percussive language that syncretizes rhythms of the Asian and African diasporas, and a haunting vocal performance that draws from Korean ritualism and mythology, silver through the grass like nothing is “a shockingly original, perfectly realized storm.” (Crack Magazine)
Connecting to the history of pearl relics (sari) and their keepers, as well as the true story of yuniya’s sudden, sibylline illnesses and their reverberant medical traumas, silver through the grass like nothing is an impressionistic, bardo-like meditation on sickness, grief, and the body’s incessant pull toward transformation. The performance is a convergence of diverse cultural practices, including Korean queer shamanic history, American Experimentalism, and a broader, diasporic improvisationalism reflective of the ensemble’s mosaic cultural identities.
The “god-tier ensemble” (Crack Magazine) features yuniya edi kwon (composition, direction, violin, voice – New York), Darian Donovan Thomas (violin – New York), Joanna Mattrey (viola – Dublin), Tomeka Reid (cello – Chicago/New York), Henry Fraser (double bass – New York), Nava Dunkelman (percussion, ritual instruments – New York), and Dudù Kouate (percussion, flutes, ritual instruments – Berlin/Senegal).
“yuniya edi kwon’s silver through the grass like nothing had its own visceral composure, mapped out by a mind-boggling visual score brought to life by a god-tier ensemble of double bass, viola, violin, cello and ritual percussion. Operating well outside the lines of familiar tuning and tonality, [yuniya] edi kwon’s own virtuoso violin and glass-shattering vocals formed the centre of a shockingly original, perfectly realised storm.”
“yuniya edi kwon assembled a powerful group with violist [Joanna] Mattrey, cellist Tomeka Reid, double bassist Henry Fraser, violinist Darian Donavan Thomas, and percussionists Nava Dunkelmann and Dudù Kouate, which played her crystalline arrangements with dazzling precision and bite… a dazzling performance.”
“You might think of the violin as a polite, refined, civilized instrument. Again, wrong. Under kwon’s direction, a violin ensemble unleashed the hounds of hell.”
SUN HAN GUILD
Inspired by the Spirit Worshipers’ Guild of early 20th century Korea, SUN HAN GUILD uses ecstatic ritual performance as an opening for insight, transformation, and mosaic collectivity. SUN HAN GUILD is composer-improvisers yuniya edi kwon, Laura Cocks (flutes), Jessie Cox (percussion), DoYeon Kim (gayageum, voice), and Lester St. Louis (cello), with lighting designer Maggie Heath.
In May 2023, SUN HAN GUILD premiered EARTH IRIDESCENCE / SORROW CHURN at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn, as part of yuniya’s 2023-24 residency. View the full performance here.
EARTH IRIDESCENCE
i. water seeps upward and blisters
ii. a subtle awareness, softening
iii. invitation of safe passage
SORROW CHURN
i. n beginning n end
ii. sk below sk above
From the program notes: “EARTH IRIDESCENCE / SORROW CHURN is an expressive ritual of ecstatic collectivity, newness from foreverness, and an invitation of safe passage for all who are in transition. On a personal note, tonight is also my first major performance and premiere since beginning a health sabbatical at the start of this year. The process has been a painful & revealing one as I connect with my body's new capacities, edges, and truths. Increasingly, only deep gratitude remains. This time has also seen US politicians introduce, pass, and enact the largest number of anti-trans laws in the country's history. So this is also a time of unprecedented cruelty. I have been moved by fear at many moments in my life. In this piece, alongside dear friends, I try instead to move through it, tuned to the freedom available in each moment.”
“Strange and brilliantly captivating”
“Vibrant, cathartic … there was always an undercurrent of energy pulsing through the room”
How does it feel to look at nothing
Holland Andrews + yuniya edi kwon
Using an improvised language of disintegration, How does it feel to look at nothing is an embodied pre-origin story of a Deity of Nothingness. An opera of the elemental, of pre-deities, and illusions of containment, this interdisciplinary performance emerges through a story of transitional states. Composer-performers, multi-instrumentalists, and vocalists Holland Andrews and yuniya edi kwon co-create this work of composition, improvisation, dance, and ritual. Grounded in Holland and yuniya’s shared spiritual lineages and lives as partners, the opera explores the forces and conditions that compel life’s emergence, and the spiritual act of meaning-making during epochs of decay.
While developing the work, Holland and yuniya (who are married) are simultaneously engaging with questions of queer parenthood, trans pregnancy, and contemporary life as trans artists of color. Over the course of the opera's creation, Holland and yuniya will find themselves also navigating the real-life, emotionally rich, and spiritually complex socio-political terrain of queer-trans family building during a period of rising American fascism and political disintegration. While the opera will not be grounded in one specific time or place, it will necessarily be shaped by the parallel, real-life experiences of Holland and yuniya as they embark on this deeply personal journey.
In addition to being co-creators and composers, How does it feel to look at nothing will feature Holland and yuniya as soloists and multi-instrumentalists whose performance practices draw from diverse lineages, including Korean Shamanic Ritual, Channeled Singing, American Experimentalism, Contemporary Opera, Punk and Hardcore, and Japanese Butoh. Throughout the opera, Holland and yuniya will embody fluid and entangled identities: elemental force, angel witness, sounding body, deity, child, parent, and memory. Through an iterative and syncretic practice, they create an improvisational, deconstructed language that feels both familiar and unknown, able to hold their many shifting roles.
Creative Producer Roya Amirsoleymani and a team of exceptional, visionary artists will comprise the company, including Lester St. Louis (Sound), Maggie Heath (Lighting, Production), KC Englander (Scenic Design), Bonan Li (Costume Design), and Marie Lloyd Paspe (Movement Coach).
WORK-IN-PROGRESS | World Premieres in Fall 2026
Producer and Project Manager: Roya Amirsoleymani
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Juni One Set
Boy mother / faceless bloom
Juni One Set is Senga Nengudi (Colorado Springs), yuniya edi kwon (Brooklyn), and Degenerate Art Ensemble’s Haruko Crow Nishimura & Joshua Kohl (Seattle).
Threading mythology and autobiography, while drawing from the diverse lineages of queer, anticolonial, and care-based artistic practices, Boy mother / faceless bloom is an interdisciplinary performance work by Juni One Set. Dance, music, poetry, ritual, and sculptural installation converge to tell a story of transformation, transgression, and the formation of new trancestral lines.
The piece has been co-created through an intensely collaborative process over the span of four years by Juni One Set: Senga Nengudi, yuniya edi kwon, and Degenerate Art Ensemble’s Haruko Crow Nishimura and Joshua Kohl. Intuitive play, loving conversations, and a deep sense of trust allowed for the generative convergence of diverse artistic practices and life experiences.
Winner of the 2024 Bessie Award for Outstanding Sound Design / Music Composition
Statement
“Our work is intensely collaborative, rooted in the deepest respect and love we hold for one another. Through an intentional, transformational process, we build a world within which we can be free. Our bodies live in fear, in the shadows of beginning-less violence, in joy and in care. Through ritual and embodiment, we find openings for healing and growth and invite others to arrive. We are trying to tell a story we never want to end.”
Created, Directed, and Performed by Juni One Set:
Senga Nengudi: co-creator, sculptural & costume design, movement
yuniya edi kwon: co-creator, music, movement
Haruko Crow Nishimura: co-creator, movement, music
Joshua Kohl: co-creator, music, sound design, stage design
Degenerate Art Ensemble Production Team
Lighting Designer: Jessica Trundy
Projection Designer: Leo Mayberry
Video Editors: Ian Lucero and Leo Mayberry
Cinematographers: Ian Lucero and Leo Mayberry
Co-commissioned by the National Performance Network Creation Fund, Colorado College Performing Arts and Department of Innovation & Creativity, Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, and Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati. Additional support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Premiered at Colorado College in February 2022. 2023 presentations at New York Live Arts co-presented by Dia Art Foundation and Performa. 2024 presentation at On The Boards (Seattle).
There is a pattern / slow
i. sound is an opening
ii. on the edge
iii. no beginning no end
iiii. murmur
iiiii. blood
Performed live at The Clemente for MATA Festival in March 2022
Improvisational Friendship Ceremony
Improvisational Friendship Ceremony is a practice of tenderness, wildness, generosity, and joy. By creating a ritual space within which these qualities of experience can emerge, we catalyze an extemporaneous music that is embedded with the sensations of freedom.
There is no musical score, only a loose sequence of instructions meant to guide the process.
Improvisational Friendship Ceremony #9 with Lester St. Louis (CELLO)
VIOLIN-VIOLA
The Art Ensemble of Chicago
50th Anniversary / The Sixth Decade
One of the most influential and visionary groups to grow out of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), The Art Ensemble of Chicago is celebrating its sixth decade with an expanded collective of musicians. yuniya joins the AEOC as a violinist/violist and improviser, along with Junius Paul (bass), Moor Mother (poetry, voice), Simon Sieger (piano, trombone, percussion), Dudu Kouaté (percussion), and the AEOC’s Roscoe Mitchell and Famoudou Don Moye.
“WE ARE ON THE EDGE” double album released in 2019 on Pi Recordings and Erased Tapes (vinyl) — PURCHASE HERE & HERE.
“THE SIXTH DECADE - FROM PARIS TO PARIS” released in January 2023 on RogueArt – Purchase HERE & HERE.
“...the record is a triumph, and if this isn’t what the original Art Ensemble sounded like, it is certainly the kind of experimental work it was trying to carve out space for.” (New York Times)
“Beyond its numerous recordings and performances, the ensemble’s legacy resides in the lasting impact the group’s sound has had on younger players, and the success of this show owed in no small part to its younger guests.” (Artforum)
International Contemporary Ensemble
Lesley Mok’s “stilled-leaf chatter”
yuniya edi kwon – violin; Cory Smythe – piano & microtonal synthesizer; Dan Lippel – guitar; Lesley Mok – drums & composition
September 20, 2022 at Joe's Pub. Video courtesy of Joe's Pub
Improvisation with Cory Smythe
yuniya edi kwon – violin
Cory Smythe – piano & microtonal synthesizer
December 9, 2022 at Target Margin Theater as part of International Contemporary Ensemble's program. Video courtesy of the Digitice Media Team.
Susan Alcorn Quintet
Pedernal
Susan Alcorn - Pedal Steel Guitar
yuniya edi kwon - Violin
Mary Halvorson - Guitar
Michael Formanek - Bass
Ryan Sawyer - Drums
Written during a retreat on a New Mexico mesa, “Pedernal” is Susan Alcorn’s first album as a bandleader. The compositions blend free and structured improvisations with expansive and contemplative writing.
Deep gratitude to hero Mark Feldman, who plays violin on the album.
tombstar
yuniya edi kwon – violin
isabel crespo pardo – voice
Zekkereya El-magharbel – trombone
Lesley Mok – drums
A new ensemble comprising improvisers, composer-performers, and interdisciplinary artists from Brooklyn and Detroit who explore the collective subconscious through improvisation, composition, and raucous, joyful experimentation. At once playful, ritualistic, ecstatic, grave, and surprising, the ensemble’s process and expressive possibilities are informed by each artist’s interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary practices, as well as a collective commitment to egalitarian decision making, friendship, and individual autonomy.
VIOLENCE
VIOLENCE is a performance piece for electro-acoustic quartet and tape. It is a reflection on the complex structures of violence that have, over many hundreds of years, created conditions for desperation, exclusion, callousness, and (ultimately) death in America.
VIOLENCE is a modest attempt to connect the expression of these structures in all their complexity.
VIOLENCE was commissioned by the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center for their 2015-16 Black Box Performance Series.
VIOLENCE (excerpts) from yuniya edi kwon on Vimeo.
a r c h i p e l a g o
a r c h i p e l a g o is a single movement work for amplified string quartet inspired by Eric K M Clark's Deprivation Music. The quartet performs the exact same score from memory, but without the practical use of their eyes and ears. This sensory deprivation is achieved through the use of blindfolds, earplugs, and over-ear headphones blasting white noise. Harmonic, melodic, formal, and spatial elements were inspired by the Fibonacci sequence. The music is measured entirely in seconds, or 60 bpm, and lasts approximately 28 minutes and 20 seconds.
a r c h i p e l a g o was commissioned by the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center for their 2015-16 Black Box Performance Series.
a r c h i p e l a g o (excerpts) from yuniya edi kwon on Vimeo.
UPCOMING
2026
6.24.26 Bloodlines Interwoven @ Abrons Arts Center for Vision Festival (NY)
7.6 - 7.18.26 How does it feel to look at nothing RESIDENCY @ PSNY (NY)
* How does it feel to look at nothing *
FALL 2026 PREMIERE SEASON
9.11 - 9.13.26
*WORLD PREMIERE WEST* @ PICA (Portland)
9.25 - 9.27.26 *WORLD PREMIERE EAST* @ FringeArts (Philadelphia)
10.15 - 10.17.26 HDIF @ On the Boards (Seattle)
10.21 - 10.25.26 *NY PREMIERE* @ BAM Next Wave Festival (Brooklyn)
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10.20.18 @ Edgefest (Ann Arbor, Michigan) w/ Art Ensemble of Chicago
11.02.18 @ Jazzfest Berlin (Berlin, Germany) w/ Art Ensemble of Chicago
12.19.18 @ Degenerate Art Ensemble (Seattle, WA) w/ Degenerate Art Ensemble
3.24.19 @ Big Ears Festival (Knoxville, Tennessee) w/ Art Ensemble of Chicago
3.25.19-4.01.19 @ Colorado College Residency w/ Senga Nengudi, Crow Nishimura & Joshua Kohl
4.05.19 @ MilkBoy ArtHouse (College Park, MD) w/ Tomeka Reid Stringtet
5.03.19 @ Constellation (Chicago, IL) w/ Akua Dixon Quartet (Chicago Jazz String Summit)
5.04.19 @ Elastic Arts (Chicago, IL) Solo Performance (CJSS)
5.05.19 @ Hungry Brain (Chicago, IL) w/ Tomeka Reid + more (CJSS)
6.01.19 - 6.08.19 @ Seattle Residency w/ Degenerate Art Ensemble (Seattle, WA)
8.05.19-8.18.19 @ Hermitage Artist Retreat (Manasota Keys, FL)
8.30.19 @ Chicago Jazz Festival w/ Art Ensemble of Chicago
10.04.19 @ Frequency Fridays - Solo (Columbus, OH)
10.22.19 - 10.28.19 @ SESC Pompéia w/ Art Ensemble of Chicago (São Paulo, Brazil)
11.03.19 - 11.17.19 @ Colorado College Residency w/ Senga Nengudi & Degenerate Art Ensemble
11.23.19 @ Barbican Centre w/ Art Ensemble of Chicago (London, UK)
12.14.19 @ Kennedy Center w/ Art Ensemble of Chicago (Washington, D.C.)
02.07.20 @ Festival Sons d’Hiver w/ Art Ensemble of Chicago (Paris, France)
3.01.20 - 3.08.20 @ Contemporary Arts Center Residency w/ Senga Nengudi & Degenerate Art Ensemble (Cincinnati, OH)
03.07.20 @ Contemporary Arts Center WORK-IN-PROGRESS PRESENTATION (Cincinnati, OH)
[ pandemic ]
3.9.21 @ Fine Arts Center at Colorado College w/ Senga Nengudi & Degenerate Art Ensemble (Virtual)
6.6.21 @ Bang On A Can Marathon (Online)
6.26.21 UMMA-YA @ Roulette Intermedium Van Lier Fellowship Performance #1 (Brooklyn, NY)
8.25.21 - 8.31.21 Boy mother / faceless bloom Development Residency @ Colorado College (Colorado Springs, CO)
9.10.21 Aakash Mittal Album Release @ Kaufman Music Center (New York, NY)
9.12.21 Biophony w/ Lesley Mok, Isabel Crespo, Zack El-magharbel @ Prospect Park Peninsula (Brooklyn, NY)
9.22.21 Boy mother / faceless bloom (in-process) @ Roulette Intermedium (Brooklyn, NY)
10.10.21 Jason Kao Hwang’s Spontaneous River @ The Clemente (NY, NY)
10.16.21 Carla Kihlstedt’s Necessary Monsters @ Roulette Intermedium (Brooklyn, NY)
11.03.21 Susan Alcorn Quintet @ Jazzfest Berlin (Berlin)
11.18.21 - 11.28.21 Boy mother / faceless bloom Development Residency @ Colorado College (Colorado Springs, CO)
12.7.21 @ C’mon Everybody w/ DAYS & sueño (Brooklyn, NY)
(postponed) 12.18.21 @ bop dubu w/ Lesley Mok, Isabel Crespo Pardo, Zekkereya El-Magharbel (Red Hook, Brooklyn)
(canceled) 12.23.21 - 12.31.21 @ BASE Residency w/ Degenerate Art Ensemble (Seattle, WA)
1.1.22 @ Poetry Project New Year’s Day Marathon (New York City)
1.24.22 - 2.28.22 Andrew W Mellon Artist-in-Residence @ Colorado College
2.25.22 - 2.28.22 JUNI ONE SET @ Colorado College (world premiere)
3.18.22 @ The Clemente w/ ARTS FOR ART: Artists For a Free World - Ukraine Benefit (New York)
3.24.22 @ BOP DUBU w/ Isabel Crespo Pardo, Zekkereya El-Magharbel, Lesley Mok (Brooklyn, NY)
3.26.22 @ MATA Festival Benefit w/ Darius Jones, Fay Victor, Rebekah Heller (New York)
4.06.22 - 4.07.22 JUNI ONE SET @ Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati, OH)
4.29.22-4.30.22 Zolle (Asst. Dir. & Performer) @ NYU Skirball w/ Du Yun, Satomi Matsuzaki, International Contemporary Ensemble (New York)
5.01.22 Long Play Festival (Bang on a Can) @ Center for Fiction (Brooklyn, NY)
5.03.22 - 5.17.22 @ UNCOOL Residency w/ Isabel Crespo Pardo, Zekkereya El-magharbel, Lesley Mok (Poschiavo, CH)
5.25.22 UMMA-YA (solo) @ MOVEMENT: Performance Platform (Asia Society New York)
6.08.22 Duo w/ Isabel Crespo Pardo @ Threes Brewing w/ Bird’s Eye (Brooklyn, NY)
6.14.22 - 6.15.22 The Future Is… Creative Forum (Moderator) @ National Sawdust (Brooklyn, NY)
6.23.22 SOUND IS AN OPENING (curator & performer) w/ Charmaine Lee, Jen Shyu, International Contemporary Ensemble @ Abrons Arts Center (New York)
6.24.22 Vision Festival w/ Fay Victor, Sam Newsome, Joe Morris, Reggie Nicholson @ Roulette Intermedium (Brooklyn, NY)
6.25.22-7.03.22 Ensemble Evolution (faculty) @ International Contemporary Ensemble (New York)
7.06.22-7.07.22 FOUR RITUALS w/ Isabel Crespo Pardo & Holland Andrews @ Green-Wood Cemetery Catacombs (Brooklyn, NY)
7.17.22 Solo @ Noguchi Museum w/ Bang on a Can Series (Queens, NY)
7.24.22 Duo w/ Lester St. Louis; Isabel Crespo Pardo - Kalia Vandever - Carmen Rothwell Trio; Aden @ BOP DUBU (Red Hook, Brooklyn)
8.06.22-8.11.22 International Interdisciplinary Arts Consortium @ Mount Tremper Arts (Mt Tremper, NY)
8.12.22-8.14.22 International Interdisciplinary Arts Collective Lab @ Movement Research (New York)
8.20.22 TIME:SPANS Festival @ DiMenna Center w/ International Contemporary Ensemble, Nicole Mitchell, George Lewis, Wadada Leo Smith, Jessie Cox (New York)
8.25.22 Parzelle Visual Sound Outdoor Festival w/ Trio: Tomeka Reid & Jean Cook (Dortmund, DE)
8.26.22 Platzhirsch Festival w/ Trio: Tomeka Reid & Jean Cook (Duisberg, DE)
8.27.22 Moers Festival w/ Trio: Tomeka Reid & Jean Cook (Moers, DE)
9.19.22 Performance w/ Holland Andrews & Vinson Fraley for ALAÏA & Bergdorf Goodman @ Peter Brant Foundation (New York)9.20.22 World Premiere by Lesley Mok w/ International Contemporary Ensemble @ Joe’s Pub (New York)9.24.22 Hyde Park Jazz Festival (Chicago) w/ Hear In Now (Tomeka Reid, Mazz Swift, Silvia Bolognesi, Chad Taylor) + QWANQWA (Ethiopia)
9.25.22 18th-annual NYC In C by Terry Riley w/ Various Artists @ Le Poisson Rouge (New York)
10.4.22 tombstar [Isabel Crespo Pardo, Zekkereya El-magharbel, Lesley Mok] @ Roulette Intermedium (Brooklyn)
10.13.22 WEIRDO NIGHT w/ Dynasty Handbag @ Bell House (Brooklyn)
10.22.22 nakji (Leo Chang, gamin, DoYeon Kim, Vong Pak) @ BOP DUBU (Brooklyn)
10.27.22 Duo w/ Holland Andrews @ C’mon Everybody w/ DAYS (Brooklyn)
11.05.22 w/ Sun Ra Arkestra & Jessie Cox @ DiMenna Center for Classical Music (New York)
11.12.22 Infinite Beginnings Second Artist Line Launch w/ Wing on Wo (New York)
12.01.22 - 12.02.22 Performance & Workshop Residency @ Oberlin Conservatory (Oberlin, OH)
12.09.22 International Contemporary Ensemble @ Target Margin (Brooklyn, NY)
12.12.22 - 12.18.22 Residency @ The Industry Lab w/ Mariah Garnett, Holland Andrews, Jessika Kenney (Los Angeles, CA)
2.22.23 Weirdo Night @ The Bell House (Brooklyn) w/ Dynasty Handbag
4.28.23 Moor Mother @ Kaufman Center (New York)
4.30.23 Poetry Project Cavafy Marathon @ St. Mark’s Church (New York)
5.7.23 Art Ensemble of Chicago @ Pioneer Works (Brooklyn, NY)
5.19.23 SUN HAN GUILD @ Roulette Intermedium (Brooklyn, NY)
5.26.23 - 5.29.23 SUN HAN GUILD @ moers festival (Moers,Germany)
6.1.23 Ceremony
6.10.23 w/ Maya Keren @ Biophony (Brooklyn, NY)
6.13.23 w/ Stephan Crump @ Barbés (Brooklyn, NY)
6.16.23 Solo @ Bowerbird at The Rotunda (Philadelphia, PA)
6.17.23 SUN HAN GUILD @ Roulette Intermedium for Vision Fest (Brooklyn, NY)
6.22.23 tombstar @ Icebox w/ Fire Museum Presents (Philadelphia, PA)
6.25.23 tombstar @ Noguchi Museum (Queens, NY)
6.26.23 - 6.29.23 Ensemble Evolution Faculty @ International Contemporary Ensemble (New York)
8.12.23 *CANCELED* New collaborative work w/ Kyoko Takenaka @ 2220 Arts + Archives (Los Angeles, CA)
9.5.23 Begin Princeton Arts Fellowship (Princeton University)
9.9.23 Touching Leaves Woman w/ Gelsey Bell @ Morgan Library (New York)
*CANCELED RAIN* 9.10.23 Arts for Art InGardens w/ Lester St. Louis (New York)
9.28.23 Reckoning w/ Du Yun, Shahzia Sikander, Zeb Bangash (Times Square, New York)
10.5.23 Solo @ Foundation for Contemporary Arts (New York)
10.14.23 Solo @ Arts for Art @ The Clemente (New York)
11.16.23 - 11.19.23 Boy mother / faceless bloom (NY Premiere) @ New York Live Arts co-presented with Dia Art Foundation as part of Performa 2023 w/ Juni One Set (Senga Nengudi, Degenerate Art Ensemble)
12.20.23 OO/LL/IM (Premiere) w/ gamin @ Abrons Arts Center (New York)
1.7.24 - 1.12.24 How does it feel to look at nothing (Development Residency) w/ Holland Andrews @ National Sawdust (Brooklyn, NY)
1.12.24 How does it feel to look at nothing (Work-in-progress) Performance w/ Holland Andrews @ National Sawdust (Brooklyn, NY)
1.26.24 - 1.27.24 Westerly Breath (H Sinno) @ The Met - Temple of Dendur (New York)
1.30.24 Duo w/ Holland Andrews @ Heavy Florals – Sisters Brooklyn (New York)
1.31.24 silver through the grass like nothing (in-process) @ Princeton University Hearst Dance Theater (Princeton, NJ)
2.3.24 Art Ensemble of Chicago @ Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH)
2.6.24 Princeton Composition Student Performances @ Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
2.16.24 Solo + SUN HAN GUILD @ Harlem Stage (New York)
3.2.24 Tomeka Reid Stringtet @ Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN)
3.16.24 Holland Andrews + yuniya edi kwon @ Brooklyn Public Library (Brooklyn, NY)
3.23.24 Art Ensemble of Chicago @ Bergamo Jazz (Bergamo, IT)
4.3.24 Hear In Now + QWANQWA @ Roulette Intermedium (Brooklyn, NY)
4.9.24 - 4.13.24 Tomeka Reid Stringtet @ Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
4.16.24 - 4.18.24 Presentation + silver through the grass like nothing (in-process) @ University of Oregon (Eugene, OR)
4.25.24 Solo w/ MIZU + Concrete Husband @ Elsewhere (Brooklyn, NY)
5.4.24 - 5.5.24 Darius Jones @ Longplay Festival (Brooklyn, NY)
6.6.24 Duo w/ Holland Andrews @ Roulette Intermedium Gala (Brooklyn, NY)
6.10.24 - 7.19.24 Civitella Ranieri Residency (Umbria, IT)
7.2.24 - 7.6.24 Signature Artist @ Monheim Triennale (Monheim am Rhein, DE)
7.19.24 - 8.9.24 Residency: How does it feel to look at nothing @ Teatro Municipal do Porto (Portugal)
8.24.24 Solo @ PLEASE Y.S. (Brooklyn, NY)
9.3.24 Princeton Arts Fellowship @ Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
10.18.24 Duo w/ Holland Andrews @ Prelude Festival 2024 at CUNY Segal Theatre Center (New York)
11.8.24 Tomeka Reid Stringtet @ University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts (Chicago, IL)
11.22.24 Duo w/ Holland Andrews @ Poetry Project at St Mark’s Church (New York)
12.12.24 - 12.14.24 Boy mother / faceless bloom @ On The Boards (Seattle, WA)
1.15.25 Duo w/ Holland Andrews @ Union Pool (Brooklyn, NY)
2.12.25 Sonic Commons w/ Holland Andrews @ Creative Time HQ (New York)
2.26.25 Solo @ Restoration Sound (Brooklyn)
3.8.25 Solo @ Women From Space Festival (Toronto, ON)
3.13.25 Performance w/ Du Yun, NOMON, Lun Li @ Asia Society (New York)
3.30.25 Susan Alcorn Tribute @ Big Ears Festival (Knoxville)
4.17.25 Solo @ Fire Over Heaven w/ gushes (Queens)
4.25.25 Duo w/ Lester St. Louis @ Chicago Jazz Strings Summit (Chicago)
5.8.25 Solo @ Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha)
5.14.25 Art Ensemble of Chicago @ Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg, Germany)
6.7.25 GYOPO Diasporic Refractions @ LA Philharmonic w/ SASAMI (Los Angeles)
6.17.25 World Poetry Salon @ NYPL w/ Victoria Chang (New York)
7.4 - 7.6.25 World Premiere @ Monheim Triennale (Monheim-am-Rhein, Germany)
6.14.25 - 6.20.25 How does it feel to look at nothing RESIDENCY @ BAM (Brooklyn)
8.4 - 8.8.25 How does it feel to look at nothing RECORDING RESIDENCY @ National Sawdust (Brooklyn)
8.10 - 8.18.25 How does it feel to look at nothing RESIDENCY @ Avaloch Farm Music Institute (NH)
9.3.25 Fundraiser for Neighbors in ICE Detention @ Sisters (Brooklyn)
9.14 - 9.28 How does it feel to look at nothing RESIDENCY @ Shadowcliff Mountain Lodge (CO)
10.10.25 Shahzad Ismaily @ Walker Art Center (Minneapolis)
10.18 - 11.16.25 How does it feel to look at nothing RESIDENCY @ Watermill Center (NY)
11.19.25 Senga Nengudi Book Launch @ Dia Chelsea (NYC)
12.7.25 World premiere commission by PinkNoise Ensemble @ Zurcher Gallery (New York)
12.8 - 12.14.25 How does it feel to look at nothing RESIDENCY @ Oak Head (WA)
12.15 - 12.21.25 How does it feel to look at nothing RESIDENCY @ PICA (Portland)
12.29 - 1.11.26 How does it feel to look at nothing RESIDENCY @ Brooklyn Academy of Music (NYC)
1.1.26 Poetry Project New Year’s Marathon @ St. Mark’s w/ Holland Andrews (NYC)
1.28.26 Kaoru Watanabe’s Bloodlines Interwoven @ National Sawdust (NYC)
2.14.26 Lunar New Year Celebration @ Wing on Wo / WOW Project (Chinatown NYC)
2.26.26 Kaoru Watanabe’s Bloodlines Interwoven @ National Sawdust (NYC)
3.6.26 w/ Holland Andrews @ Les Complices* (Zurich)
3.8.26 w/ Holland Andrews @ Moods (Zurich)
3.11.26 w/ Holland Andrews @ Stadtgarten Köln (Cologne)
3.19.26 w/ Holland Andrews @ Les Atelier Claus (Brussels)
3.26 - 3.28.26 Bloodlines Interwoven In-Residence @ Big Ears Festival (TN)
4.13 - 5.3.26 How does it feel to look at nothing RESIDENCY @ Guild Hall (NY)
4.30.26 How does it feel to look at nothing IN-PROCESS @ Guild Hall (NY)
5.19.26 Solo @ Movement Research Gala (NY)
5.30 - 5.31.26 Bodies on the Brink w/ LEIMY (NY)
6.3.26 Cyro Baptista @ The Stone (NY)