Portrait of Faye Driscoll

Faye Driscoll © Willa Ellafair Folmar

Faye Driscoll

Faye Driscoll is a Doris Duke Award-winning performance maker. She was the 2021 – 2022 Randjelovic / Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, a Bessie award and the Jacob’s Pillow Artist Award, among many others. Her work has been presented at Wexner Center for the Arts, Walker Art Center, ICA/Boston, MCA Chicago and BAM, and internationally at Tanz im August (Berlin), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussel), La Biennale di Venezia, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Melbourne Festival, Belfast International Arts Festival, Onassis Cultural Centre (Athens), Centro de Arte Experimental in Buenos Aires and Festival Dias da Dança (Porto).

Her newest multi-sensory performance sculptures “Calving” (2022) and “Weathering” (2023) premiered at Theater Bremen (Bremen, Germany) and New York Live Arts (NYC, USA), respectively. In 2020, her first-ever solo exhibition, “Come On In”, opened at Walker Art Center and then went on to Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, On the Boards and Esplanade (Singapore). She also choreographs for plays and films, including the Broadway production of Young Jean Lee’s “Straight White Men” and Josephine Decker’s award-winning feature film “Madeline’s Madeline”.

As of: September 2024