NAO BUSTAMANTE ARTIST TALK AND SCREENING
MONDAY APRIL 4, 5PM
AVERY THEATRE (FILM & ELECTRONIC ARTS BUILDING)
Nao Bustamante is an internationally known and beloved, media-saavy artist, and a recent contestant on the Bravo TV reality series Work of Art: The Next Great Artist. Originally from California, she attended San Francisco Art Institute where she was under the influence of the notorious New Genres department, and cut her teeth as an artist in San Francisco between 1984-2001. Bustamante now resides in upstate New York, where she teaches, and canoes with her poodle, Fufu (who also has an IMDB page).
On Monday, April 4 at 5pm in Avery Theatre, Nao Bustamante will present a selection of her at times precarious and radically vulnerable work that encompasses performance art, video installation, visual art, filmmaking, and writing. The New York Times (Kevin McGarry) says, “She has a knack for using her body.”
Bustamante has presented in Galleries, Museums, Universities and underground sites all around the world. She has exhibited, among other locales, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Franklin Furnace and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Sundance 2008, 2010, and the Kiasma Museum of Helsinki. Her movies have been shown at Outfest in Los Angeles and Mix in New York City among other festivals. Bustamante has been published by the Theatre Communications Group in the book, Out of the Fringe, as well as the Theatre Drama Review, published by the MIT Press. In 2000 she received the GLBT Historical Society Arts Award. In 2001 she received the prestigious Anonymous Was a Woman fellowship and in 2007 named a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, as well as a Lambent Fellow. Currently, Bustamante holds the position of Associate Professor of New Media and Live Art at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
This event is being presented by Film & Electronic Arts and Studio Arts, and has been co-sponsored by the Fund for Difference.