Ayana Evans

Ayana Evans is a NYC-based performance artist. Her guerilla-style performances have been staged at El Museo del Barrio, The Barnes Foundation, The Bronx Museum, Crystal Bridges, Newark Museum, the Queens Museum and a variety of public locations. Her performances have been reviewed in The New York Times, Bomb Magazine, ArtNet, Hyperallergic, and New York Magazine's The Cut. Her international work includes participation in the FIAP performance festival in Martinique, The Pineapple Show at Tiwani Contemporary in London, and Ghana’s Chale Wote Festival, which drew 30,000 people. Evans was a 2018 Fellow in the Studio Immersion Program at EFA’s Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, a 2018 resident and grant recipient at Artists Alliance Inc (NYC), 2017-2018 awardee of the Franklin Furnace Fund for performance art, a 2018 New York Foundation of the Arts Fellow in Interdisciplinary Arts, and a 2021-2022 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. In 2015, she received the Jerome Foundation's Theater and Travel & Study Grant for artistic research abroad. Her past residencies include Yaddo, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Vermont Studio Center.  She is an adjunct lecturer for graduate studies at Brooklyn College. Before coming to Gallatin, Evans was Professor of the Practice at Brown University.