Ceysson & Bénétière

Née à Chicago, IL 

Formation

Temple University, Tyler School of Art, MFA in Painting with one year of concentration in Rome, Italy

Brown University, BA in Visual Arts

Fashion Institute of Technology, Associates Degree in Accessory Design

En tant qu'artiste performeuse, Evans aborde ce que signifie être une femme avec une honnêteté totale. Des œuvres comme I Just Came Here To Find A Husband explorent sa lutte pour être célibataire et trouver la paix intérieure, tandis que Frying Chicken illustre ses insécurités concernant la noirceur, la montrant en talons, en train de manger du poulet frit avec de l'huile pour bébé et de la graisse de poulet sur tout le corps. Sa performance féministe, Girl, I’d Drink Your Bath Water, joue sur un sifflement populaire, dans lequel elle utilise une baignoire, de l'eau et du savon pour se purifier.

Son œuvre la plus populaire, Operation Catsuit, a commencé lorsque Evans a été moquée pour avoir porté une combinaison en néon vert lors d'événements artistiques, mais acceptée lorsqu'elle a revêtu une tenue « arty ». « Mon corps était entièrement couvert mais, en raison de ma silhouette voluptueuse, la tenue était controversée », explique Evans.

La voir performer avec une telle physicalité et aborder des questions émotionnelles et politiques

Expositions Personnelles et à Deux

2022           

Cash Rules Everything Around Me (CREAM) Career Fair, Weeksville Heritage Canter, Brooklyn NY.

2021         

 I Just Came Here to Find a Husband and Start a Got Damn Revolution, Brown University,Providence RI

2020           

Constructing A Black Ass Art Show, Wa Na Wari Gallery, Seattle, WA (Online solo show)

2020         

 I Came by Boat So Meet Me at The Beach, August Wilson Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, PA                     

2019           

Spectacle and Change Beach Performance, Siren Arts Festival, Asbury Park, NJ

2019         

My Colonial Get Away, EFA Robert Blackburn Printshop at NADA, Governors Island, NY (Solo)

A Black Woman's Art Show and A White Man's Exhibition, Cuchifritos Gallery,  NYC (Solo)

2018           

If Keisha Jumped Off a Bridge, Would You Do It Too? Medium Tings, Brooklyn, NY (Solo)

Expositions Collectives et Performances

2023           

BIG HAPPY: A Momentary Utopia, performances in collaboration with Wanda Riumundi Ortiz, The Momentary/Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR

2022           

Loophole of Retreat, performance for symposium organized by Simone Leigh and Rashida Bumbry, Venice, Italy

2022           

A Legacy of Textures and Sun, a collaboration with Anina Major, activating her installation Haven No 3, Socrates Sculpture Park

2020           

INVERSE Performance Festival: Digital Ed, The Momentary at Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR  

Digital Loft Performances with Q & A, Franklin Furnace Archive, New York, NY

2020           

4 Bodies One Screen, Rubin Foundation, Zoom performance organized& curated by Maria Hupfield

Facial Performance + 'Gurl' I'd Drink Your Bathwater, COMPANY Gallery, NYC, Zoom performance

INVERSE Summer Residency Event with RACE Matters SLO, (based in San Louis Obispo, CA)

Performance in honor of "Luscious" a retrospective of works by Wendy Edwards, Brown University, RI

2019           

Operation Catsuit Performance at RISD Museum in collaboration with the Dirt Palace, Providence , RI     

Performance and Exhibit, Savage-Lewis Residency, Art on the Vine, Martha's Vineyard, MA        

Sparkle Performance and Workshop at Cuesta Collage, San Louis Obispo, CA

Studio Immersion Program(SIP) Fellowship Exhibition, EFA Robert Blackburn Gallery, NY, NY

Every Woman Biennial (Formerly The Whitney Houston Biennial), La Mama, NYC     

Females Occupying Space, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ

Rape, Representation, and Radicality, The Feminist Art Project @ CAA New York, NY

2018           

Inverse Performance Night, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA

Altered, Company Gallery, New York, NY

Inverse Performance Art Festival, Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AK

Drink My Kool-Aid, Living Arts Festival, Tulsa, OK

Temporal and Corporeal: A Broad Scope Of Performance Art, Ohio University

Her Art Will Be Cannibal, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY

2017           

Art in Odd Places: SENSE, 14th Street performances, New York, NY

Dancer with Stanley Love Performance Group, The Kitchen, NY, NY

Red Carpet Veggie Harvest, Laundromat Project, Bronx, NY

African Body Snatchers, Chale Wote Street Festival, Accra, Ghana

Operation Catsuit Gardening, Laundromat Project, Bronx, NY

Just Situations, Int'l Performance Fest, Panoply Performance Lab, Brooklyn, NY

Rapid Pulse Retrospect, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, IL

ITINERANT, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY

A Person of the Crowd, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

Festival International de Art Performance (FIAP), Fort de France, Martinique  

2016           

Gurl I'd Drink Your Bathwater, Prizm Art Fair, Miami Fl

Make Your Own Way, Satellite Art Fair, Miami, FL

Interior Interruptions -Post Election, Bullet Space Gallery, NY, NY

Coloring/Harnessing/Labor-Supreme/Electives, PPL, Brooklyn, NY

Stopping Traffic, at StartUp Art Fair with Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, IL

Raw Forms Forum, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ

The Pineapple Show, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK

Back in 5 Min Artist Residency at El Museo Del Barrio, New York, NY

#BlackGirlLit (traveling series), Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Performing the SAT: free SAT classes given in 'the Catsuit', Jamaica Flux, NY, NY

21st Suffragettes: Int'l Performance by Women, Grace Exhibition Space, NY

2015         

Post Midnight: SHPC responds to After Midnight Exhibit, Queens Museum, NY

Imperial Envy, durational performance,  ABC No Rio, New York, NY

Rapid Pulse Performance Festival, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, IL

Call of the Wild, AUX Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA