Nurya Chana
NURYA CHANA
American, b. Bronx, NY 1988
Lives and works in Hudson, NY
Education
2020 MFA, Hunter College, New York, NY
2011 BA Biology cum laude, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Group Exhibitions
2023
Dream Alliance, Chashama, New York, NY
Coast to Coast, Cauterskill Design & Build HQ, Catskill, NY
2022
Some Kind of Monster Roster, Analog Diary, Beacon, NY
2021
The Holiday Show, LabSpace, Hillsdale, NY
WinterOver?, Time/Space Limited, Hudson, NY
WinterOver?, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Garage, Chatham, NY
NADA x Foreland, Foreland, Catskill, NY
The Privilege of Getting Together III, Swivel Gallery x RegularNormal, Brooklyn, NY
2020
The Holiday Show, LabSpace, Hillsdale, NY
MFA Thesis Exhibition, 205 Hudson Gallery, New York, NY
Hunter MFA Thesis Spotlight, Hauser & Wirth, online
2019
Earthly Delights, Re-Institute, Millerton, NY
The Mnemonic Body, Hunter College, Tribeca, NY
2018 Six Months In, Hunter College, Tribeca, NY
2017 Music Seen, LabSpace, Hillsdale, NY
2015 Geek Show, curated by Ryan LaPointe, Hudson, NY
2013 (Solo) Swallow, Hudson, NY
2011 Light Changes Cells (Solo), Beekman Street Artist's Co-op, Saratoga Springs, NY
Solo Performances
2021 Aspirations, Unfix Festival, Online
2020 Gut Dance, Exponential Fest Variety #1, Para\\el, Williamsburg, NY
2019
Gut Dance, Performance Anxiety curated by Brandon Perdomo, Chinatown Soup, New York, NY
Gut Dance, event curated by Melinda Kiefer, The Grove, Bushwick, NY
Photophilia RPG, Coney Island Ritual Cabaret, Coney Island USA, Brooklyn, NY
2018
Navel, The New York Butoh Institute Festival, Theater for the New City, New York, NY
Navel, Bobo Beer Can Release, Honey's, Brooklyn, NY
Navel, Unfix Festival, New York, NY
Navel, Coney Island Ritual Cabaret, Coney Island USA, Brooklyn, NY
2017
Hunger, Halloween event curated by Ming Liu, C.A.V.E., Kingston, NY
Feeding, event curated by Nina Isabelle, The Shirt Factory, Kingston, NY
Feeding, LabSpace, Hillsdale, NY
Feeding, with Representative I, WeDoUs, Hudson, NY
1-800-Wisdom, event curated by Brandon Perdomo, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY
1-800-Wisdom, Hot Mud Fest, Hudson, NY
1-800-Wisdom, Rosekill Performance Art Farm, Rosendale, NY
Ontogenesis, with Representative I, Death Cafe Fundraiser, MaMa, Stone Ridge, NY
2016
Solidarity, FeminineRulez2 curated by Lindsey Beebe, Tarot Reading Room, Brooklyn, NY
Object Snatch, with Representative I, WeDoUs Festival, Hudson, NY
Plastic Wrap, Sugar, and Weeds, with Representative I, +Space, Catskill, NY
Borders 5 hour durational, with Representative I, LabSpace, Hillsdale, NY
2015
Big Cloth with Hole, curated by Slink Moss, +Space, Catskill, NY
Butoh Street Tour, solo tour, DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, NYC, Gloucester, Boston, Providence, and Portland, ME
Three Colors, with Representative I, CCCA Showcase curated by Slink Moss, Hudson, NY
End and Enduring, with Representative I, Gallery Four, Baltimore, MD
Trifecta, with Representative I, Get The Poison Out curated by Chris Carlone, Tarot Reading Room, Brooklyn, NY
Trifecta, with Representative I, Basilica Soundscape side stage curated by Bunny Brains, Hudson, NY
Representative I, Shadow People's Project, Times Square, New York, NY
Representative I, Basilica Drone Fest, Hudson, NY
Workshop Performance, with Representative I, TSL (Time/Space Limited), Hudson, NY
2014
The Holiday Party, with Representative I, WinterWalk, Hudson, NY
Representative I, Basilica Soundscape side stage curated by Bunny Brains, Hudson, NY
Collaborative Performances
2018
Cinematic Death Moon Return, solo dancer, Katherine Bauer, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Rabid Lords Gang, dancer, Ieva Mesciucavite, Private Party, Manhattan, NY
2017
Cinematic Death Moon Return, solo dancer, Katherine Bauer, Fahrenheit 451, Catskill, NY
Rabid Lords Gang, dancer, Ieva Mesciucavite, The Met Breuer, Manhattan, NY
Rabid Lords Gang, dancer, Ieva Mesciucavite, video project
2015
Neven, Representative I, film project with Chris Carlone
2014
Being Bodies, Representative I, film by Ephraim Asili
Pretty Please, Representative I, music video for Josephine Foster by Ephraim Asili
Curatorial Projects
April 2017- Dec 2021, HiLo Art, Director/curator, Catskill, NY
Press
2021 Upstate Art Weekend 2021, Bigger and Better, Paul Laster, White Hot Magazine, https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/art-weekend-2021-bigger-better/5132
2020 Interstices Acts as Aperture During a Most Miserable Year, Dana Notine, Eliana Blechman, and June Scalia, White Hot Magazine
2018 The New York Butoh Institute Festival 2018 Showcases Women and International Artists, Cindy Sibilsky, Broadway World