bio
i’m nico luna paz (they/them), an artist, and theater tech who makes work about people, identity, and the environment.
i’m based in brooklyn, new york (Lenape land). I am inspired by climate research, activism, and history.
i have an MFA in Social and Environmental Art Practice from Prescott College. i am part of the art collective The Revolution School, which is a Creative Capital grant recipient, I’ve created public art for NYC’s City Artist Corps program and I was recently an artist in residence at the Carrie Able Gallery in Brooklyn.
right now, i am looking for opportunities to teach and to partner with educational spaces to create work with or for the public.
i work as a costume tech on Broadway and am a proud member of IATSE.
i live in brooklyn, ny with my partner, plants, and our two cats, Spooky and Morticia.
contact: nikkilunapaz@gmail.com
www.instagram.com/nikkilunapaz
exhibitions
with the Revolution School:
2022 how we are in time and space, Armory Center for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Studio 2022, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Mind’s Eye, WeRise at LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
solo:
2021 plantita, public interactive installation, KnowWasteLands, Brooklyn, NY
2020 beyond the heart-sphere, site-specific facilitated performance, virtual via Zoom 2019 Global Witness, performance, Otis College of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Please Touch the Art, Shawn Lewis Gallery, New York, NY
group:
2023, Disconnected Visions, Carrie Able Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2021 manifesto, with Flower Shop Collective, The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY
2019 The Evidence of Things, Otis College of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Bondage and Freedom, Otis College of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Anyone/Anywhere IV: Feelings, Kinfolk Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Moonapalooza!, The Moon Infospace, Newburgh, NY
2017 Silence = Death, 400 West Rich Gallery, Columbus, OH
curatorial projects
2019, Bondage and Freedom, Otis College of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2019, PRIDE Fest for Queer Performers & TransLatinx Network, Rubulad, Brooklyn, NY 2019, Write for Resistance for ICE Detainees in NJ, Little Skips East, Brooklyn, NY 2019, Power 2 Dreamers for New Sanctuary Coalition, Bizarre Bar, Brooklyn, NY
2018, Art Against ICE, Bizarre Bar, Brooklyn, NY
2018, Spookyfest RAICES Fundraiser, Sunshine Palace, Brooklyn, New York
awards
NYC Cultural Affairs City Artist Corps Grant Recipient
CERF+ Craft Artist Grant Recipient
Arts and Culture Leaders Grant Recipient
Prescott College Diversity in the Arts Grant
Otis College Governer’s Grant for Social Practice Artists
collections
Adventures in Reshaping Time, LACMA | Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Three of Cups, Vanderelli Gallery, Columbus, OH
bibliography
Lewis, M.E. “Introducing Plantita: Like a Little Free Library, but for Plants”. Bushwick Daily, Nov 2, 2021
Moon, Jennifer: “Old Technologies, New Embodiments,” LA Review of Books, Aug 2, 2020, p.12
”East LA’s Thought Provokers”, VoyageLA
Santa Ana River Review, Feb 3, 2019
”Urban Wild”: Murze Magazine Issue 8, Issue 8, 2019
Winter 2018 Property Materials Magazine
Gindi, Maegan: ”The Witches of Kings County” for Venefica Magazine
conferences, workshops, teaching
2021, Workshop, “The Revolution: Operation Scrooge and League of Superheroes.” With the Revolution School, 18th St. Arts Center
2019-20, Teaching Assistant, Disaster Design and Rise Above Plastics, Otis College of Art + Design 2019, Teaching Artist and Technical Theater Director, Manhattan Youth at the Clinton School
residencies
2023, Carrie Able Gallery
2022, Studio at REDCAT with The Revolution School
2020, All is Leaf Residency (canceled due to COVID)
education
MFA Social and Environmental Art, Prescott College
BFA Interdisciplinary Design Sustainable Fashion, Costumes, Media, Parsons The New School for Design Certificate of Fashion and Culture Studies, University of the Arts London
from The Revolution Deck. designed by Devin Alejandro-Wilder.
photographed in 2018 by Maegan Gindi
for Venefica Magazine, The Witches of King’s County