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LANI ASUNCION
Boston Center for the Arts
Studio 208
539 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02216
EDUCATION
2011-2009
MFA | Art: Video & Performance
School of Fine Arts, Art & Art History, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
2008-2004
BFA | Studio Art: Sculpture & Painting - Minor: Printmaking
Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
PUBLIC ART & SOCIAL PRACTICE
2024-25
SONG/ LAND/ SEA | WAI Warnings - Water Clock & Binkol Blessing, curated by Audrey Lopez, PhD, Greenway Public Art, Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, Boston, MA (forthcoming)
2022-2021
Revolutionary AYAT/LOVE, Public Art for Spatial Justice, New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), Cambridge, MA
2020
Mountain Monument | Monument Mountain, collaboration with Anne Harris, Art on the Marquee, Boston Cyberarts and the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, Boston Convention Center, Boston, MA
2018
Human Garden: Growing, Round 1 | Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Boston Cyberarts, Boston, MA
2017
VAGABOND City, ILLUMINUS Boston 2017, Downtown Crossing, Boston, MA
BON, Community Public Art - Pearl Street Micro Project, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Duty-Free Paradise curated by J.R. Uretsky, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
2022
Duty-Free Paradise, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2021
Duty-Free Paradise, Radial Gallery, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
2020
Human Garden, Biosounds, Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, MA
2019
Human Garden, Handmade, Boston Children’s Museum Art Gallery, Boston, MA
2016
3 Sisters Series, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA
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 LIVE PERFORMANCES
2024
Tabi Tabi Po (May I Pass) Performance Series, performed with Pauline Tan, curated by Audrey Lopez, PhD, Greenway Public Art, Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, Boston, MA (forthcoming)
Duty-Free Paradise Performances, curated by J.R. Uretsky, accompanied by Shey ‘Rí Acu’ Rivera Ríos and Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
2023
Binakol Blessing Performance, co-performer AGF (Antye Greie), Non-Event, Goethe-Institut, Boston, MA
Song/Land/Sea | Tabi Tabi Po, double performance series Joanna Tam, Lot Lab Public Project, Now + There, Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, MA
2022
Duty-Free Paradise: Dole House, Sanctuary City Exhibition Programming, Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA
Anting-Anting, VISIONS/VOICES Performance Series - New Narratives: Past and Present, Curated by Leslie Condon, PAO Arts Center/ Rose Kennedy Greenway, Chinatown, Boston, MA
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 - City of Boston's Transformative Public Art project, Boston, MA
Biosounds, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Press, Boston, MA
2019
Pineapple Girl Stories Told, Live Dinner 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, 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
Della Terra All’ Acqua, Collaborator: Katya Popova, Medicine Wheel 24 hrs. Vigil, Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Human Garden, Spaceus, Faneuil Hall, Boston, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Between Life and Land: Crisis, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT
2021
National Prize Show - Second Prize, Juried by Alice Gray Stites, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
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, Curators: Anabel Vazquez Rodriguez & JR Uretsky, Dirt Palace: Wedding Cake House, Providence, RI
2018
Contact Zone | WAIKIKI, Honolulu Museum of Art School, Main Gallery, Honolulu, HI
Annex Member Show, Fountain Street Gallery, Boston, MA
Mapping Worlds, Curator: Isabel Beavers, Spaceus, Roslindale, MA
Cast of Characters, Curator: Liz Collins, The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center, New York, NY
Space Invaders, Honorable Mention, Juror: Samuel Rowlett, Fountain Street Gallery, Boston, MA
2017
Emerging Artists Exhibition: Fay Chandler Award, Scollay Square Gallery, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA
VOX XIII: Are Friends Electric, Jurors: Aria Dean and David Hartt, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
2016
Foreign and Familiar, S.T. Chen Fine Arts Center, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT
2015
26th International Juried Exhibition, Juror: Lauren Hinkson, Viridian Artists Inc. Gallery, New York City, NY
2015
A Colony of Drifters, Alternative Space Commission, Collaborator: Colin McMullan, Artspace, New Haven, CT
By and by…at home with Sam and Livy, Curators: Sarah Fritchey & Rashmi Talpade, The Gallery, Connecticut Office of the Arts, Hartford, CT
2014
Vagaries of the Commons, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Nothing is Set in Stone, New Haven Museum, New Haven, CT
17th International Open, Juror: Myra Greene, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
3 SISTERS: Lost Myth [Eruption], Dirt Palace Window Gallery, Providence, RI
2013
Fem//me, Curator: Shelby Nimrod, Trolley Arts Building, New Haven, CT
Head, Curator: Jeff Ostergren, Institute Library Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Fetish Objects, Curator: Martha Willette- Lewis, New Acquisitions from the Flatfile, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2012
Local Builders: An Anthology of Connecticut Sculptors, Juror: Stephen Kobasa,
A-Space Gallery, West Cove Studios, West Haven, CT
MULTICHANNEL, Brick Factory, Nashville, TN
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
VIDEO SCREENINGS / NEW MEDIA FESTIVALS / ART FAIRS
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
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2023
Center of Gravity - Walkaway House, North Adams, MA
Steel Yard, Micro-Residency, Providence, RI
Rhythm in Nature Residency - Susie Ibarra, PS21 Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, Chatham, NY
Kala Arts Institute - Kala Fellowship, Berkeley, CA
2022
Boston Center for the Arts, Studio Residency, Boston, MA
Studios at MASS MoCA | Assets for Artists, Massachttes Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
2021
Queer.Archive.Work, Providence, RI
Wedding Cake House, Providence, RI
Cambridge Community Television [CCTV], Boston, MA
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
2012
Contemporary Artists Center at Woodside [CAC], Troy, NY
SELECTED GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS
2023
Duty-Free Paradise curated by J.R. Uretsky at BCA Mills Gallery - Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York City, NY
Kala Fellowship Award, Kala Arts Institute, Berkley, CA
2022
Public Art for Spatial Justice - Revolutionary AYAT/LOVE, New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), Boston, MA
Future Frequencies Fellow, Studios at MASS MoCA - Assets for Artists/ CreateWell Fund, Massachttes Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
Duty-Free Paradise: Isle of the Blessed, Mass. Cultural Council LLC Grant, Somerville Arts Council, Boston, MA
202
Second Prize Award - National Prize Show, Juried by Alice Gray Stites, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
Fellow in the Mentorship & Sponsorship Program 2.0, The Network for Arts Administrators of Color (NAAC Boston), Boston ,MA
Artist’s Resource Trust (A.R.T.) 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
2015
CWOS: Alternative Space Commission Grant, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, Santa Fe Arts Institute, Santa Fe, NM
2011
Graduate Fellowship, Department of Art & Art History, University of Connecticut
Graduate/Doctorate Travel Grant, Oahu, Hawaii, University of Connecticut
2009
Charles W. and Ola Massey Memorial Art Scholarship, Middle Tennessee State University
COMMUNITY LEAD PROJECTS
2022
Performance | History/ Ritual/ Identity, Summer Community Art Program, Artist-in-Residence, Urbano Project, Boston, MA
CURATORIAL WORK / PANEL REVIEWS
2023
43rd Annual Student Juried Exhibition, Co-Curator with Xander Marro, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Brown Arts Institute, Providence, RI
Jurying Artist, 2023-24 Artist Residency Program, Studios at MASS MoCA/ Assets for Artits, Massachttes Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
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 Artits, Massachttes Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
Panel Review, Visual Arts Projects - Local Cultural Council, Somerville Arts Council, Somerville, MA
VISITING ARTIST / LECTURES / WORKSHOPS
2024
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, MA
2021
Aurora Project Picture Show, Miko Revereza: No Data Plan - Screening & Conversation, Huston, TX
2018
Art&Tech // Show&Tell : Video Art & Digital Storytelling, Artist Talk with Siobhan Landry, Cambridge Community Television, Cambridge, MA
Rekindling our Living Link: Art & Environmentalism in a Contemporary Context, Artists Panel Talk, Dorchester Art Project, Boston, MA
2016
3 SISTERS Series: Artist Talk, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI
Journey of an Other Girl, ARTH3020: Asian American Art, Department of Art & Art History, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
2015
Visiting Artist, Video Art, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT
Modern Myth Making, Westover School, Middlebury, CT
ACADEMIC TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
2024
Adjunct Professor, Queering Performance & Video, Sculpture Department, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA (forthcoming)
2019 - 2018
Instructor, Experimental Animation, Continuing Education, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA
2018 FALL
Instructor, Essentials of Video: Visual Storytelling, Continuing Education, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA
2017 SPRING
Adjunct Professor, ART2011: Digital Media, University of Connecticut, Waterbury, CT
2016 FALL
Adjunct Professor, COMM1114: Production Fundamentals, School of Communications, University of New Haven, New Haven, CT
2016 SPRING
Adjunct Professor, PUB 321: Imaging Identities, Online Course, College Unbound, Charter Oak College, Providence, RI
Adjunct Professor, ADSN 230: 4-D Time-based Media, Shintaro Akatsu School of Design (SASD), Bridgeport University, Bridgeport, CT
Adjunct Professor, ADSN 231: Motion Graphics, Shintaro Akatsu School of Design (SASD), Bridgeport University, Bridgeport, CT
2015 FALL
Adjunct Professor, FVI105/JRN106 – Essentials of Video, Film, Video, & Interactive Media, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT
2015 SPRING
Instructor, 201 CAST: Commercially Applied Storytelling, Veterans Vocational Program, Institute for Advanced Media, Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network, Hartford, CT
2014 FALL
Instructor, VPE: Video Production Editing, Veterans Vocational Program, Institute for Advanced Media, Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network, Hartford, CT
2014 SPRING
Instructor, Applied Digital Graphics Lab, Veterans Vocational Program, Institute for Advanced Media, Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network, Hartford, CT
PROFESSIONAL WORK
CURRENT-2024
Public Art Program & Curator, Pao Arts Center, Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC), Boston, MA
2023-2022
Program Officer, Artists - Artists, Mass Cultural Council, Boston, MA
2023-2019
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 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
INDEPENDENT VIDEOGRAPHY SERVICES
2015
Larry Lewis Documentary, Fred Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, CT
2013
Universitas 21: Doctorial Program International Conference Video, Graduate Studies, Entrepreneur Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities, Storrs, CT
SCOPE Program, School of Business, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
2012
I-Park Foundation Inc., Video Documentation for Artists Residency Program, East Haddam, CT
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE / BOARD SERVICE / MEMBERSHIPS
Current-2021
Core Partner - Digital Soup, Cultural Equity Incubator (CEI), Midway Artist Studios, Boston, MA
Queer.Archive.Work/ Binch Press, Studio Member, Providence, RI
Current-2019
Digital Soup, Artistic Director & Founding Member, Boston, MA
2018
Annex Member, Fountain Street Gallery, Boston, MA
2015 - 2014
Events & Production Manager, PechaKucha NHV, New Haven, CT
2016 - 2015
Community Action Collective [CAC], Board Member, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2016 - 2014
Momentum Technology Videos [MTV], Institute for Women Art, Rutgers University,
2011
Diasporic Asian Art Network [DAAN], Member
PAPERS / PUBLICATIONS / INTERVIEWS / PRESS
2024
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/
2023
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 A_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
2022
Duty-Free Paradise, Special Issue - Art and Environment in Oceania, Pacific Arts, Volume 20, Issue 1. Pacific Arts Association, UC Santa Cruz, CA. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9bp1n9m2
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/
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
2018
Pineapple Girl Series, Issue 02: Fieldwork, Boston Art Review, p. 108-115
2012
Aspect EZ: Vol. 4, Déjà Vu, limited-edition DVD printing by ASPECT: The Chronicle for New Media, Boston, MA