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Multimedia Performance Art
2010 “The Camillia, a Strong Flower of a Woman”, at the exhibition of & inspired by the art of Namiyo Kube, Viridian Artists,
an improvisation with Japanese guitarist, Kazuyosi Yamada
"Dress", Fieldwork at Dance Theater Workshop, NYC
In Japan, Izu City, at the invitation of Namiyo Kubo, artist
2009 “Ghost Traveler II”, Movement Research @Judson Memorial Church, NYC with muscian, Sean Carolan & Nicole Lee, dancer
“Ghost Traveler I”, with musician, Sean Carolan, Ceres Gallery, NYC
2008 “Channeling III”, Henry street Arts & Living Center, “Field Day”; NYC; Green Studio, LIC, NY;
“Channeling IV”, University Settlement Theater, NYC
“Channeling II”, The Tank @ Collective Unconscious, “Field Day”, NYC
"Channeling”, Dinnerware, Tucson, AZ; Live Arts Collaboration, The Performance Project @ University Settlement
“08-08-08”, Rivington Underground School, NYC with David Rodgers & Brendan Coyle
2007 “Trapped”, Sackler Center for Feminist Art @ Brooklyn Museum
“Barbie”, Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
“Barbie in Paris”, Butoh guerilla performance, Pompidou Museum, Paris, France
2006 “The Silver Rose”, Museum Pompidou, Paris, France; Huntington Library Gallery, Long Island, NY
“Performance: aLive Art”, School of Visual Arts, NYC with Linda Montano, Martha Wilson, Annie Sprinkle
2005 “Transformation Daze”, Diesel Gallery Red Hook, NY
“Random Acts” & “Nostalgia”, Gallery OneTwentyEight (2 Performances & music by Sean Carolan, one solo & one with Kazuko Miyamoto)
"Transformation Daze” & “The Blue Flower (w Gabrielle Juvan)”, Vogelfrei 6, Darmstadt, GR.(catalog)
“Butoh Words”, Central Wyoming College, Riverton WY
2004 “Trapped”, YW Performance Evening @ Viridian Artists & DTW (Dance Theater Workshop), NYC
“Trapped” The missile Dick Chicks & others, The Patriot Room @ Dick Shea's, NYC
“7 Year Performance”, curated by Linda Montano beginning December 8, 2004 - Dec 8, 2011.
2003 Fine Arts Building Gallery, Chicago IL, performance @ opening reception of Inner Muse/ Viridian Artists from New York City to Chicago
2002 "Laughing”, Performance Studies International Conference, NYU, NYC
2001 “LOVE, "GHOST CATS", "Perfect Woman" with Billy Bang & Kazuko, Gallery 128;
"Don’t Know What to Call It” w Charles Foster-Hall, Pirate Space, Denver CO
"It All Goes So Quickly", Atelier Juvan, Offenbach, Germany;
Invited Artist "7th Performance Studies Conference, Mainz, Germany
2000 “How to be the Perfect Woman”, Viridian Artists, NYC;
“Paper Doll(s), Soho20, NYC;
“where My Dolls At?”, Patch 155, NYC;
“Fan Dance”, ABC No Rio, NY;
"WET" (Quality of Life II)
1999 “How to Be the Perfect Woman”: FSP, Tokyo, Japan; Westchester Community College, NY;
“All Wet” UFO Technologies, NYC;
“Let’s Make 42nd St Dirty Again”, NYC
1998 “Bohemian Barbie” 11 East Ashland, Phoenix, Gallery128, NYC; Eklectikos, Wash. DC
“Lost Forever”, the Edge Festival, Lower East Side, NYC “From There to Here"
1997 Viridian Artists Inc, Gallery OneTwentyEight, “How to Be the Perfect Woman” (w Kazuko Miyamoto),
Ridge Street Gallery, Sandra Gering Gallery, NYC (w Coco Gordon), “Moderne Bride”,
"How to be the Perfect Woman”, “DIRT” (curator), gallery 128;
“Bohemian Barbie at 80” & “Yule No Wen U Git Thair”, Ridge Street Gallery & Gallery 128, NYC
1996 419 Lafayette, NYC, "The Nature of Things "
1995 Cami Hall, Cast Iron Gallery, Gallery 128, "The Nature of Things", all NYC,
The Writer's Place, KC MO, "Giovanni's Box"
1992 Cunningham Studio, NYC, "Remembering Ourself"
1990 DC Art Center, Wash DC, "Micro-Soft Woman"/"Giovanni's Box";
La Mama La Galleria, NYC, "Giovanni's Box"
1989 BACA Downtown, Brooklyn NY: "MicroSoft Woman";
Spontaneous Combustion, Brooklyn NY: "Mexican Memories";
La Mama La Galleria, NYC: "MicroSoft Woman"
1988 55 Mercer Gallery, Henry Street Arts for Living Center, NYC: "Artful Selves" (director);
Casa del Laga, University of Mexico, Mexico City: "Mexican Memories"
1987 Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island: "Surface Tensions"
1986 Guggenheim Museum, NYC: "evolutionary Woman";
Experimental Intermedia, NYC: "Surface Tensions (the Noises of Art)";
Henry Street Playhouse/The Floating Performance, NYC "5 NotSoEasy Pieces" (curator & performer)
1985 Franklin Furnace, NYC: "Private Places (Sexual Adventures of Adolescence)";
The Woman's Building, Los Angeles, CA: "Private Places";
Cuando, NYC, "Goya Mea";
Douglass College, New Brunswick, NJ&"Choice Works" (with PADD) "This Is Not a Condom"
1984 BACA's Downtown Cultural Center, Brooklyn: "This Is Not a Condom"
1983 AIR, NYC & BACA, Bklyn: "The Autumn of Her Descent";
Judy Caden Gallery, NYC: "The Last Confession (Lies & HalfTruths)"; Cable TV, NYC: "How To Paint"
1980 Printed Matter, NYC: "Window Undressing";
Fiatal Muvesek Klubja, Budapest: "Imaginary Transformations"
1979 Tweed Courthouse, NYC: "My Name Is Nemesis"
1977 Soho 20 Gallery, NYC: "Humorette";
Corner of Spring & Wooster Sts., Soho: "A Performance, Sort Of";
Jersey City Museum, NJ: "Traveling"
1970 Guggenheim Museum, NYC: "Juice" (Meredith Monk)
1968 Judson Dance Theater, "ENVIRONMENTS" by Phil Niblock w Barbara Lloyd, Ann Danoff