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LANI ASUNCION
Boston Center for the Arts
Studio 208
539 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02216


EDUCATION
2011   
MFA in Art: Video and Performance, School of Fine Arts, Art & Art History, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
2008   
BFA in Studio Art: Sculpture and Painting - Minor: Printmaking, Magna Cum Laude, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN

PUBLIC ART
2024
SONG/ LAND/ SEA | WAI Warning & Binakol Blessing, The Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston, MA (curated by Audrey Lopez)
2022
Revolutionary AYAT, Public Art for Spatial Justice, New England Foundation for the Arts, Cambridge, MA
2020
Mountain Monument | Monument Mountain, Art on the Marquee, Boston Cyberarts and the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, Boston, MA
2018
Human Garden: Growing, Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Boston Cyberarts, Boston, MA
2017
VAGABOND City, ILLUMINUS Boston, Downtown Crossing, Boston, MA
BON, Community Public Art - Pearl Street Micro Project, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Lani Asunción: Duty-Free Paradise, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA (curated by J.R. Uretsky)
2022   
Duty-Free Paradise, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2021
Duty-Free Paradise, Radial Gallery, Department of Art and Design, University of Dayton,   Dayton, OH
2020
Human Garden: Biosounds, Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, MA
2016
A Journey of a Vagabond and the Stories She Tells, Ives Gallery, New Haven, CT
2014
Modern Myth Making: Selected Works, Schumacher Gallery, Middlebury, CT

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Rooted Waves, two person show with Feda Eid, FPAC Art Space, Fort Point Arts, Boston, MA
2023
Between Life and Land: Crisis, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT
2021
National Prize Show - Second Prize, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA (juried by Alice Gray Stites)
2019
Repair & Design Futures, Dirt Palace Projects, RISD Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Ruffles, Rituals, & Repair: The Art of Fixing, Dirt Palace: Wedding Cake House, Providence, RI (curated by Anabel Vazquez Rodriguez and JR Uretsky)
2018
Contact Zone: WAIKIKI, Honolulu Museum of Art School - Main Gallery, Honolulu, HI        
Annex Member Show, Fountain Street Gallery, Boston, MA
Mapping Worlds, Spaceus, Roslindale, MA (curated by Isabel Beavers)
Cast of Characters, Queer Division and The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center, New York, NY (curated by Liz Collins)
Space Invaders, Honorable Mention, Fountain Street Gallery, Boston, MA (juried by Samuel Rowlett)
2017
Emerging Artists Exhibition: Fay Chandler Award, Scollay Square Gallery, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA
VOX XIII: Are Friends Electric, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA (juried by Aria Dean and David Hartt)
2016
Foreign and Familiar, S.T. Chen Fine Arts Center, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT
2015
26th International Juried Exhibition, Viridian Artists Inc. Gallery, New York City, NY (juried by Lauren Hinkson)
A Colony of Drifters, Alternative Space Commission, Artspace, New Haven, CT
By and by…at home with Sam and Livy, The Gallery, Connecticut Office of the Arts, Hartford, CT (curated by Sarah Fritchey and Rashmi Talpade)
2014
Vagaries of the Commons, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Nothing is Set in Stone, New Haven Museum, New Haven, CT
17th International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL (juried by Myra Greene)
3 SISTERS: Lost Myth [Eruption], Dirt Palace Window Gallery, Providence, RI
2013
Fem//me, Trolley Arts Building, New Haven, CT (curated by Shelby Nimrod)
2011
SHOP, Joint Collective, Hamburg, Germany
Tell it Slant, SOHO20 Gallery, New York City, NY
College Art Association NY Area MFA Exhibition, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York City, NY
Tell it Slant, The Benton Museum, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2024 
Bloodless | Blood, Bones, Aloha!, in collaboration with Magdalena Abrego and Matthew Azevedo, an archive and/or a repertoire, Tufts University Art Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, Boston, MA (curated by Laurel Mclaughlin)
Resonate Currents, collaborative performance with Iwalani Kaluhiokalani, Mer Sea: Iwalani Kaluhiokalani, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
Tabi Tabi Po (May I Pass) Performance Series, Greenway Public Art, Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, Boston, MA
Duty-Free Paradise Performances, with Shey ‘Rí Acu’ Rivera Ríos and Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
2023
Binakol Blessing, co-performer AGF (Antye Greie), Non-Event, Goethe-Institut, Boston, MA
 NAPJ: Decoding the Colonial, performance series with Joanna Tam, Boston Public Art Triennial, Lot Lab - Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, MA
2022
Duty-Free Paradise: Dole House, Sanctuary City Exhibition Programming, Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA
VISIONS/VOICES Performance Series - New Narratives: Past and Present, Pao Arts Center & Rose Kennedy Greenway, (curated by Leslie Condon)
Duty-Free Paradise: WAI: Red Hill Hex, Aurora Picture Show, Huston, TX
Duty-Free Paradise: Dole House, 10b Projects, Jamaica Plain, MA
2021
Duty-Free Paradise: Isle of the Blessed, Starlight Square, Cambridge, MA
Duty-Free Paradise Performance Series, Blue House Arts at Front Street First Friday, Dayton, OH, Dayton, OH
2020
Biosounds, Concerts in the Courtyard Series, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA (Funded by City of Boston's Transformative Public Art Grant)
Biosounds, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Press, Boston, MA
2019
Pineapple Girl Stories Told, Performance Series (3 Night Event), Tanam, Bow Market, Sommerville, MA
Biosounds, Sonorium Series, Salem Public Access TV, Salem, MA
2018
Bloodless, Opening for Narcissister Organ Player Screening in Boston Woman’s Film Festival, Museum of Fine Arts (MFA Boston), Boston, MA
Bloodless, SITE Seeing, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
Human Garden | Mirrors, Non-Event, The Yard, Boston, MA
Human Garden, Collaborator: Sean Saman, Ramler Park, Boston, MA
Human Garden, Spaceus, Faneuil Hall, Boston, MA   

FAIRS / VIDEO SCREENINGS / NEW MEDIA FESTIVALS
2024
Satellite Art Fair, Brooklyn, New York, NY
2022
Completely Familiar, Entirely Free, curator Saskia Globig & Michael Ipsen - Lino Kino New Media Collective, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2020
For and From Whom We Owe Our Strength, aCinema, Woolard Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI
2017
Private Video Screening: Selection of Experimental Film, The Annex, Boston University     Art Gallery, Boston, MA
2016
3 SISTERS: Dreamtime, First-Cut Screening & Performance, Bilpin International Grounds   Creative Incentives [BigCi], New South Wales, Australia
Great Wall of Oakland, Costa’s High Paradise video screening, Oakland, CA
2015
SUPERMARKET Independent Art Fair, SpartAn: Another Athens Film Programme, Interview Room 11 booth, Stockholm, Sweden
2014
Another Athens, SpartAn: Interview Room 11, Edinburgh, Scotland/ SNEHTA, Athens, Greece
Australian International Experimental Film Festival, Goodtime Studios & Replants, Melbourne/Perth, Australia
Natural Tendencies, Hartford New Music Festival, Charter Oak Center Gallery, Hartford, CT
2013
Fits & Starts, Video Screening, Torrance Museum of Art, Torrance, CA
2012
Déjà Vu DVD Screening, Aspect: The Chronicle of New Media, Boston, MA
Fits & Starts, Video Screening & Performance, Curators: Elizabeth Leister & Cindy Rehm, Agency Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Currents 2012: International New Media Festival, Parallel Studios, Santa Fe, NM
Midas Touch Video Hour: Episode 2, Rhizome ArtBase, New York, NY
Night of Festivals 2012: Moving Image, ArtReach Nanoplex/Nottingham Contemporary, UK

RESIDENCIES
2023
Kala Arts Institute, Berkeley, CA
Center of Gravity - Walkaway House, North Adams, MA
Steel Yard, Micro-Residency, Providence, RI
PS21 Performance Spaces for the 21st, Century, Chatham, NY
2022
Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Boston Center for the Arts, Studio Residency, Boston, MA
2021
Queer.Archive.Work, Providence, RI
Wedding Cake House, Providence, RI       
2020
Blue House Arts, Dayton, OH   
2019
Cerdeira, Lousã, Portugal
2018
Vermont Studio Center [VSC], Johnson, VT
2016
Bilpin Int’l Ground for Creative Initiatives [BigCi], New South Wales, Australia
2015
Santa Fe Art Institute [SFAI], Santa Fe, NM
2014
Elsewhere Living Museum, Greensboro, NC
2013
Caldera Arts Center, Sisters, OR
I-Park, East Haddam, CT

FELLOWSHIPS
2023
Kala Fellowship Award, Kala Arts Institute, Berkley, CA
2022
Future Frequencies Fellow, Studios at MASS MoCA - Assets for Artists/ CreateWell Fund, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
2020
Fellow in the Mentorship & Sponsorship Program 2.0, The Network for Arts Administrators of Color (NAAC Boston), Boston, MA
2015
Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, Santa Fe Arts Institute, Santa Fe, NM

GRANTS / AWARDS
2024
Expand Massachusetts Stories-Climate Track Grant, Mass Humanities & Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC), Northampton, MA
MAP Fund Grant for project 'Transmuting Imperialism's Impact: A Culinary and Visual Exchange' in collaboration with Ellie Tiglao, New York, NY
Neighborhood Activation Grant, SONG/LAND/SEA: WAI Warning - Performance: Tabi Tabi Po, Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture with the City of Boston
Good Neighbor Fund, Digital Soup x Mobius Artists Group Collaboration, Wagner Foundation, Boston, MA
2023   
Duty-Free Paradise curated by J.R. Uretsky at BCA Mills Gallery - Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, NY
2022   
Public Art for Spatial Justice - Revolutionary AYAT/LOVE, New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), Boston, MA
Duty-Free Paradise: Isle of the Blessed, Mass. Cultural Council LLC Grant, Somerville Arts Council, Boston, MA
2021
Second Prize Award - National Prize Show, Juried by Alice Gray Stites, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
Artist’s Resource Trust Fund - Duty-Free Paradise Performance Series, Berkshire Taconic   Community Foundation, Sheffield, MA
2020
Live Arts Boston Grant - Duty-Free Paradise Series, Boston Foundation, Boston, MA
City of Boston's Transformative Public Art - Biosounds Performance, Concerts in the Park at the Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
2018
Opportunity Fund Grant, Artist Career Development Grant - Vermont Studio Center Artist Residency, City of Boston Arts & Culture, Boston, MA
2016
Dame Joan Sutherland Fund, Travel Grant, American Australian Association, New York City, NY
Assets for Artists (A4A), Matched Savings Grant, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2024
3DTD-324-04: Discourse in Practice: Public Art, Fine Arts 3D Practice (FA3D), Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Fall 2024
3DSC-239-01: Queering Performance & Video, Sculpture Department, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Fall 2024
2019
Experimental Animation, Continuing Education, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Spring 2018
2018
Essentials of Video: Visual Storytelling, Continuing Education, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Fall 2018
2017
ART2011: Digital Media, University of Connecticut, Waterbury, CT, Fall 2017
2016
COMM1114: Production Fundamentals, School of Communications, University of New Haven, Spring 2016
2016
PUB 321: Imaging Identities, Online Course, College Unbound, Charter Oak College, Spring 1016
ADSN230: 4-D Time-based Media, Shintaro Akatsu School of Design (SASD), Bridgeport University, Bridgeport, CT, Spring 2016
ADSN231: Motion Graphics, Shintaro Akatsu School of Design (SASD), Bridgeport University, Bridgeport, CT, Spring 2016
2015
FVI105/JRN106 – Essentials of Video, Film, Video, & Interactive Media, Quinnipiac University, Fall 2015 
2015
Commercially Applied Storytelling, Veterans Vocational Program: Institute for Advanced Media, Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network, Fall 2015
2014
Video Production Editing, Veterans Vocational Program, Institute for Advanced Media, Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network, Fall 201
2014
Applied Digital Graphics Lab, Veterans Vocational Program, Institute for Advanced Media, Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network, Fall 2014

CURATORIAL WORK / PANEL REVIEWS
2023
Un-Monument Public Art and Performance, Curator, Pao Arts Center & Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture supported by The Mellon Foundation, Boston, MA
2023
43rd Annual Student Juried Exhibition, Co-Curated with Xander Marro, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at Brown Arts Institute, Brown University
 Jurying Artist, 2023-24 Artist Residency Program, Studios at MASS MoCA/ Assets for Artists, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
2022
Digital Soup Collective Exhibition & Event Series, Canal Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
Jurying Artist, 2022-23 Artist Residency Program, Studios at MASS MoCA/ Assets for  Artists, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
Panel Review, Visual Arts Projects - Local Cultural Council, Somerville Arts Council, Somerville, MA

VISITING ARTIST / LECTURES / WORKSHOPS
2024
Visiting Artist, Illustration Master of Fine Arts Program, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, RI
 Visiting Artist, Sculpture Department, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2023
Visiting Artist, Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM), Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
Visiting Artist Critic, Advanced Sculpture Studios, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
Artist Lecture, ART318: Advanced Drawing, Department of Art at Chapman University, Irvine, CA
Artist Lecture, TIME: Advanced Drawing & Foundations, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2022
Artist Lecture, Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM), Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
Artist Lecture, ARCH 7130: Master’s Research Studio, Erased Architectures/Narratives, School of Architecture, Northeastern University, Boston, M
Performance | History/ Ritual/ Identity, Summer Community Art Program, Artist-in-Residence, Urbano Project, Boston, MA
2021
Aurora Project Picture Show, Miko Revereza: No Data Plan - Screening & Conversation, Huston, TX

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2023-2022
Program Officer - Artists, Mass Cultural Council, Boston, MA
Current-2019
Founding Member + Artistic Producing Director & Events Organizer, Digital Soup, Boston, MA
2021 - 2017
Studio Manager: Media Arts - Performance/ Animation/ Film Department, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA
2017-2016
City-Wide Open Studios Associate Producer & Events Manager, Art Space, New Haven, CT
2016 - 2011
Media Production Specialist, Ed McMahon Mass Communications Center, School of Communications, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT 

ARTISTIC PRODUCING DIRECTOR & EVENTS ORGANIZER - DIGITAL SOUP
2024
Digital Soup x Mobius Artists Group Collaboration (Good Neighbor Fund - Wagner Foundation Grant), Boston, MA
Digital Soup Residency at Fountain Street Arts, SoWA, Boston, MA
2023
Digital Soup Collective Artist Residency, Closing Event, Boston Cyberarts, Jamaica Plain, MA                    
Black Portals II, partnership with Boston Ujima Project, Black Market, Roxbury, MA
Digital Soup Exhibition at CAA @ Canal Gallery, curation of open call and events, Cambridge Art Association, Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA
Dirt Palace Show, Providence, RI
2022
Black Portals I, partnership with Boston Ujima Project, Nubian Gallery, Roxbury, MA
Cores II, partnership with 3rd WavvE and Black Math Design Studio, Chinatown, Boston, MA
2021
BAR x DS + Boudoir Launch Party, Boston Art Review, Charles River Speedway, Brighton, MA
Cores I, partnership with 3rd WavvE and Black Math Design Studio, Chinatown, Boston, MA
2020
Digital Soup Show I, Black Math, Chinatown, Boston, MA
Digital Soup @ Green House, Jamaica Plain, MA
2019
Digital Soup x Studio 550 Show, Studio 550, Cambridge, MA
 
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE / BOARD SERVICE / MEMBERSHIPS
Current-2023
Mobius Artists Group
Current-2018
Artistic Director & Founding Member, Digital Soup Collective, Boston, MA
2024-2023
Board Member, Fort Point Arts Community, Boston, MA
2024-2021
Core Partner - Digital Soup, Cultural Equity Incubator (CEI), Midway Artist Studios, Boston, MA
Queer.Archive.Work/ Binch Press, Studio Member, Providence, RI
2018
Annex Member, Fountain Street Gallery, Boston, MA
2016 - 2015
Community Action Collective [CAC], Board Member, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2016 - 2014
Momentum Technology Videos [MTV], Institute for Women Art, Rutgers University, NJ
2015 - 2014
Events & Production Manager, PechaKucha NHV, New Haven, CT
2011
Diasporic Asian Art Network [DAAN], Member

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Ripple Effect: Lani Asunción confronts colonial pasts while envisioning liberated futures,” feature by Grace Talusan, Issue 13: Make Believe, Boston Art Review, Boston, MA, pg. 24-31
Looking Through the Mirror of the Imperial Gaze on the Philipina Diaspora, Balikbayan | Homecoming: Filipino Perspectives on Philippines Collections, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, May 29, 2024. https://peabody.harvard.edu/laniasuncion
Paradise Betrayed?: Lani Asunción’s Activist Look at Hawai’i Rarely Seen, by Susan Volmer, 18th Anniversary Issue #109, Artscope Magazine, March/April, 2024, pg. 56-57. https://artscopemagazine.com/2024/03/paradise-betrayed-lani-asuncions-activist-look-at-hawaii-rarely-seen/
Revolutionary Healing in Public – Reimagining Colonial Wounds in Public Monuments by Lani Asuncion, New England Foundation for the Arts, Jun 13, 2023. https://www.nefa.org/news/revolutionary-healing-public
What does it mean to be free today?, Philippines Independence Day Be Free Festival , Balay Kreative, SOMA Pilipinas - Filipino Cultural Heritage District, San Francisco, CA. June 9, 2023. https://balaykreative.com/stories-content/what-does-it-mean-to-be-free-for-the-filipino-today
Visibility – Case Study: Duty-Free Paradise Lani Asuncion, The We Design Issue, Design Museum Everywhere Magazine, Issue 024, p.202-205.
INPUT/OUT Magazine, Podcast Series - Episode 3 of Season 2: Tales from the Margins hosted by Magdalena Abrego, January 17, 2023. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0JqUS94ZgNqC2jpaCUiMhp?si=hLMOKO9- TqiiYsX40AkZcA
Digital Soup / Multimedia Collective for Liberation: New Media, Experimental Art & Performances, by Lani Asuncion and edited by Marcel Marcel, Boston Compass, Brain Arts, Boston, MA. July 2023. https://www.bostoncompassnewspaper.com/post/digital-soup-multimedia-collective-for-liberation-via-new-media-experimental-art-and-performances
A Work in Progress: Developing equitable spaces for artistry to flourish in Boston, by Taylor Blackley, The Scope Boston, May 9, 2022. https://thescopeboston.org/7951/features/a-work-in-progress-developing-equitable-spaces-for-artistry-to-flourish-in-boston/
Duty-Free Paradise, Special Issue - Art and Environment in Oceania, Pacific Arts, Volume 20, Issue 1. Pacific Arts Association, UC Santa Cruz, CA. 2021. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9bp1n9m2
Dream House, Woman House Zine - HEXENTEXTE Publishing by Cindy Rehm, LAND + Anat Ebgi - Stefano Di Paola, Los Angeles, CA. 2020.
Dream House: How a Providence Collective Fashioned a home for art in a storied place, Rooting, Issue 07, Boston Art Review, p. 61, p. 108-115
Pineapple Girl Series, Issue 02: Fieldwork, Boston Art Review, p. 108-115
Aspect EZ: Vol. 4, Déjà Vu, limited-edition DVD printing by ASPECT: The Chronicle for New Media, Boston, MA. 2012.