Nao Bustamante

Nao Bustamante is a Chicana multimedia and performance artist,[1] from the San Joaquin Valley in California.[2] Her work largely explores issues of ethnicity, class, gender, performativity, and the body. She first trained in postmodern dance before moving into the realm of performance in the mid-1980s. She has been called "the doyenne of the Bay Area’s underground cultural scene."[3]:178 She holds a BFA/MA from the San Francisco Art Institute and currently serves as Associate Professor of New Media and Live Art[4] at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.[2] She has exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the New York Museum of Modern Art, Sundance, and the Kiasma Museum of Helsinki.[4] In 2007, Bustamante was named a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow. Bustamante competed in the first season of Bravo's Work of Art: The Next Great Artist.[5]

Notable Works

References

  1. McGarry, Kevin. "The New Muse | Nao Bustamante." Editorial. New York Times Style Magazine 9 June 2009: T Magazine. New York Times Company, 9 June 2009. 31 Oct. 2014.
  2. 2.0 2.1 http://www.arts.rpi.edu/pl/faculty-staff/nao-bustamante
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Fusco, Coco, ed. Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas. London: Routledge, 2000.
  4. 4.0 4.1 http://www.naobustamante.com/about.html
  5. "Work of Art Photos - Nao Bustamante". Bravotv.com. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
  6. http://www.naobustamante.com/art_indigurrito.html
  7. http://hidvl.nyu.edu/video/000509510.html
  8. http://www.naobustamante.com/art_rosadoesjoan.html
  9. http://hidvl.nyu.edu/video/001018439.html
  10. Muñoz, José Esteban. "Feeling Brown, Feeling Down: Latina Affect, the Performativity of Race, and the Depressive Position." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 31.3 (2006): 675-88.
  11. http://vimeo.com/60283405
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