Silk Worm

b. 1993, Atlanta, GA

lives and works in San Francisco, CA

EDUCATION

MA, Stanford University, Art History, June 2017

BA, Stanford University, Theater and Performance Studies, June 2017

PUBLICATIONS

“The Eyes of Others,” Open Space from SFMOMA, September 2021

“Lifetime Achievement,” untitled volume from Slash Art, June 2021

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES

Lessons in Anatomy (work-in-progress excerpt), CounterPulse (SF), performance, November 2022

The jaws of all are red with gore, CounterPulse (SF), performance, August 2022

Don’t Ask Me, /room/ at Slash Art (SF), solo show of video work, May – August 2022

The Last Waltz, Delaplane (SF), group show, March 2022

Lifetime Achievement, The Stud (SF), livestream screening, June 2021

GEN, Beauty Supply Arts (Oakland), performance, November 2019

knowing me, Clump TV (Berlin), performance, October 2019

crummy sheets, Berkeley Art Museum, performance, October 2019

Bottom Bride, Fierce! Festival (Birmingham, UK), performance, October 2019 

Bottom Bride, Pittsburgh Performance Art Festival, performance, August 2019

Bottom Bride, 2727 California Street (Berkeley), performance, July 2019

knowing me, HIT Gallery (SF), performance, April 2019

Bottom Bride, h0L0 (New York City), performance, November 2018

Bottom Bride, National Queer Arts Festival (SF), performance, June 2018

Bad Acting, Cantor Center for the Arts (Stanford), performance, May 2017

SELECTED WORK AS A PERFORMER IN OTHERS’ WORK

Bacchae Before by Hope Mohr and Maxe Crandall, Joe Goode Annex, September 2021

Colossus by Mica Sigourney, CounterPulse, April 2021

Drag House by Mica Sigourney, CounterPulse, May and June 2019

I’m Very Into You by Sara Lyons, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, November 2018

Out of Place, In Place by Futurefarmers, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, March 2018

PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES, AND WORKSHOPS

If You Shout ‘Brick!’,” Place Talks at the Prelinger Library, November 2019

“Bean Juice: A Drag Performance-Lecture,” Marlboro College, November 2018

“Bad Acting 101: A Workshop,” California College for the Arts, November 2017, 2018, and 2019

GRANTS, HONORS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency, Paul Dresher Ensemble, July 2022

San Francisco Artist Grant, San Francisco Arts Commission, June 2022

CA$H Dance Grant, Dancers’ Group, June 2022

CA$H Creates Grant, Theatre Bay Area, June 2022

Artist Power Convenings Grant, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, December 2021

Individual Artist Commission Grant, San Francisco Arts Commission, June 2020

GENERATE Programme, British Council and Arts Council England, October 2019

Alternative Exposure Grant, Southern Exposure, December 2019

danceWEB Scholarship, ImpulsTanz International Dance Festival, July 2017

Cantor Scholarship, Cantor Center for the Arts, January – June 2017

Miss SOME THING’s Got Talent 2016, Club SOME THING at the Stud, June 2016

Sherifa Omade Edoga Prize for Creative Work Addressing Social Issues, Stanford University Department of Theater and Performance Studies, June 2016

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Stanford University Department of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, June – August 2015

Chappell-Lougee Scholarship, Stanford University Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, June – August 2014

SELECTED CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE

HUSH-HUSH, Co-Founder and Director, various venues, February 2017 to present

Curatorial platform that has provided paid opportunities for 100+ queer and trans artists to present their experimental performance, installation, and video work in the Bay Area.

High Fantasy Memory Index, Guest Co-Curator, Tenderloin Museum, February 2020

Archival-based exhibition about San Francisco drag party High Fantasy.

This, That, and the Third, Curator, HIT Gallery, October 2019

Group show with Keko Jackson, DaMon Golatt, and Dara Peterkin.

Sweet Nothings, Curator, January 2019 and September 2019

Lecture and artist talk series at HIT Gallery and Beauty Supply Arts featuring local artists and writers who presented upcoming projects.