Moriah Evans works in, on and around the mediums of performance, dance and choreography. Her works take the form of site-specific performances, theater productions, installations, symposiums, texts, and curatorial projects. Through ongoing investigations into embodiment, her research considers how notions of flesh, body, self, and subject position constitute “being” in the world. Evans’s works have been presented by: Museion, Bolzano; Performance Space New York; Public Art Fund, NY; Pace Live, NY; Beach Sessions, NY; NYU Skirball, NY; The Kitchen, NY; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, DC; Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai; SculptureCenter, NY; Whitney Museum, NY; MoMA PS1, NY; Atelier de Paris: CDC, Paris. In 2023 the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden acquired her performance Be my Muse. In 2011 Evans initiated The Bureau for the Future of Choreography—a collective investigating participatory performance. She was Editor-in-Chief of the Movement Research Performance Journal (‘13-’20), Tanzkongress Curatorial Advisor (‘17-’19), and Dance & Process Co-Curator (The Kitchen,‘16-’23). She has been a visiting professor in the Institute for Applied Theater Studies at University of Giessen and teaches workshops internationally. Evans has been an artist-in-residence at MacDowell, Movement Research, The New Museum, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Issue Project Room, Νew York Live Arts, ImPulsTanz, MoMA/PS1, MANA Contemporary, Onassis AiR. She is a FCA Individual Artist Awardee, a ‘22 Guggenheim Fellow and a ‘23-’24 Hodder Fellow. She has a BA in Art History & English from Wellesley College, and MA in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from University of California, San Diego.

PHOTO CREDITS: Moriah Evans, Configure [The Kitchen, 2018]. Pictured (left to right): Moriah Evans, Lizzie Feidelson, Nicole Mannarino, Lydia Okrent, Ka Baird, João dos Santos Martins. Photo: Paula Court.