Nao Bustamante
Bustamante on Dale Radio by Dale Seever in 2012
Born (1969-09-03) September 3, 1969 (age 54)
San Joaquin Valley, California, U.S.
EducationSan Francisco Art Institute, New Genres program and the Skowhegen School of Painting and Sculpture
Occupation(s)Associate Professor and Vice Dean at the USC Roski School of Art and Design
Known forArt

Nao Bustamante (born September 3, 1969) is a Chicana interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator from the San Joaquin Valley in California.[1][2][3] Her artistic practice encompasses performance art, sculpture, installation, and video and explores issues of ethnicity, class, gender, performativity, and the body.[4][5][6] She is a recipient of the 2023 Rome Prize.[7]

Early life and education

Bustamante was born in California. She first trained in postmodern dance before moving into the realm of performance in the mid-1980s.[8] Active in the San Francisco between 1984-2001, Bustamante was once referred to as "the doyenne of the Bay Area’s underground cultural scene."[9] She holds a BFA and MFA from the New Genres Program at the San Francisco Art Institute.[10]

Career

Bustamante has performed in galleries, museums, universities, and underground sites internationally, notably collaborating with performing artist Coco Fusco and the experimental arts entity Osseus Labyrint.[11][12] She has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the prestigious Anonymous Was a Woman Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Lambent Fellowship, Chase Legacy Award in Film, Artist in Residence for the American Studies Association, CMAS-Benson Latin American Collection Research Fellowship, Queer Artist in Residence at the University of California, Riverside, and the University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS) Scholar in Residence Fellowship in preparation for a solo exhibition at Vincent Price Art Museum in Los Angeles.[13]

She currently serves as Professor and Director of MFA Art Program at the University of Southern California Roski School of Art and Design in Los Angeles.[14] She previously held the position of Associate Professor of New Media and Live Art at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.[10]

Bustamante competed in the first season of Bravo's Work of Art: The Next Great Artist.[15]

Notable works

References

  1. ^ Nevins, Jake (2023-07-12). "Nao Bustamante and Her Friend Maggie Nelson Go to the Disco". Interview Magazine. Retrieved 2023-08-17.
  2. ^ "- Department of the Arts - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)". Archived from the original on 2016-10-22. Retrieved 2014-11-12.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-05-12. Retrieved 2017-03-11.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ a b "Bulletproof: Artist Nao Bustamante Bridges Past and Present in Soldadera". Bitch Media. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  6. ^ "Artist Nao Bustamante Opens a Pop-Up Club in a Chinatown Shopping Mall". www.culturedmag.com. Retrieved 2023-08-17.
  7. ^ Durón, Maximilíano (2023-04-24). "Seven Artists Win Coveted Rome Prize, Including Dread Scott and Nao Bustamante". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2023-08-17.
  8. ^ Corpus delecti : performance art of the Americas. Fusco, Coco. London: Routledge. 2000. ISBN 978-0415194532. OCLC 41096255.((cite book)): CS1 maint: others (link)
  9. ^ a b c Fusco, Coco, ed. Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas. London: Routledge, 2000.
  10. ^ a b "Performance artist Nao Bustamante joins USC Roski as vice dean of art". 2015-10-14. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  11. ^ "The Collections". Archived from the original on 2017-06-11. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  12. ^ "Interview with Nao Bustamante (2002)". Archived from the original on 2018-03-24. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  13. ^ "About Nao Bustamante". Archived from the original on 2018-05-18. Retrieved 2014-11-12.
  14. ^ "Nao Bustamante | Roski School of Art and Design". roski.usc.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  15. ^ "Work of Art Photos - Nao Bustamante". Bravotv.com. 2010-06-30. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
  16. ^ "Forbidden".
  17. ^ "Indigurrito Nao Bustamante video collection".
  18. ^ "Forbidden".
  19. ^ Munoz, Jose Esteban (July 2006). "The Vulnerability Artist: Nao Bustamante and the Sad Beauty of Reparation". Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. 16 (2): 191–200. doi:10.1080/07407700600744386. S2CID 144582505 – via International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text.
  20. ^ "Nao Bustamante America the beautiful Globalization, migration and the public sphere".
  21. ^ "The Chain South (1998)".
  22. ^ "Sparkler (2001)".
  23. ^ 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.
  24. ^ "Neapolitan". 2013-02-22.
  25. ^ Ball, Katie Brewer (2008). Bustamante, Nao; Finley, Karen; Muñoz, José Esteban (eds.). "Cabaret Thoughts on Wow and Now". Criticism. 50 (3): 543–549. doi:10.1353/crt.0.0078. ISSN 0011-1589. JSTOR 23130893. S2CID 36580234.
  26. ^ "Given Over to Want (2009)". Retrieved March 11, 2017.
  27. ^ Rob, Thomas (March 21, 2010). "Thrilling Them Softly". Madison Wisconsin State Journal.
  28. ^ McGarry, Kevin (19 June 2009). "The New Muse | Nao Bustamante". T Magazine. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  29. ^ "Arts Professor Nao Bustamante to premiere film "TABLEAU" at Outfest LA Film Festival - Department of the Arts - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)". www.arts.rpi.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-27.
  30. ^ Bustamante, Nao (2013-06-25), TABLEAU, low-res, cut as premiered on July 19th, 2013, retrieved 2019-03-27
  31. ^ "Nao Bustamante - Soldadera". www.naobustamante.com. Retrieved 2017-03-25.
  32. ^ "Nao Bustamante Brown Disco — OCDChinatown". ocdchinatown.com. Retrieved 2023-08-17.

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