evan ray suzuki
performance // video // design
LIVE WORKS
2024
afterimage, Umbria Factory Festival, Creative Hub Cantiere Oberdan, Spoleto ITALY
Bodhisattva Beer Run, Cannonball Festival, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia PA†
Bodhisattva Beer Run, PAGEANT, Brooklyn NY†
I don't have two wolves inside me, I have..., MOMENTA #013, Trans-Pecos, Queens NY
Aizen Lite, Amanda+James The Decade Gala, NY NY†
Last Minute Malfunction of the Pyrotechnics Display, Movement Research at the Judson Church, NY NY
2023
New Work, New Dance Alliance Performance Mix Festival #37, Abrons Arts Center, NY NY
NEPOBABYPASTAGIRL, New Dance Alliance Performance Mix Festival #37, Abrons Arts Center, NY NY
Residue ii, WestFest Dance Festival, NY NY
Residue, 98 Release, DCTV, NY NY
2022
Not-Working, Open Studios, curated by Tei Blow, Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn NY†
FUDO, Not Your Mother’s Pan-Asian Festival 2, Corlears Hook Park, NY NY†
I’m listening, i’m just nervous, CreateART Works-In-Progress, Dancewave, Brooklyn NY
untitled, DANCE HOLE, The Tank, NY NY
ARTPROP 2.0, Butoh What, Williamsbridge Oval, Bronx NY
ARTPROP, Amanda+James Summer Happenings Festival ’22, Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn NY
my saturday night did NOT go as planned :), ANT Fest, Ars Nova, NY NY
2021
superbloom, 20 and 20s, The Tank, NY NY
~ d r e a m c o r e ~, Radical Acts Festival, JACK, Brooklyn NY
:/ , Enduring Apocalypse: A Performance Art Marathon, Abrons Arts Center, NY NY
:), KA-BAH-RAY, Purgatory, Brooklyn NY
superbloom, Groundswell Series, Cuyler Gore Park, Brooklyn NY
Yonsei f*ck f*ck pt. 7, LES Dance Crawl, Mizuma & Kips, NY NY†
Yonsei f*ck f*ck pt. 6, LES Dance Crawl, Trotter & Scholer, NY NY†
2020
thewaves-or-untitled, Sarah Lawrence College, Virtual
Yonsei f*ck f*ck pt. 0.5, WAXworks, Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn NY†
2019
FREAK PIECE, Melancholy Players, Yonkers NY
FILM/VIDEO WORKS (selected)
2023 Goblin Mode — Narrative Short
2023 Raising Daughters: “Nor’easter” — Music Video
2021 ~wake up with me~ // GRWM day in my life vintage aesthetic — Dance Film
2020 pamplemousse — Dance Film
2020 Lungs — Narrative Short
PERFORMANCE
Great Jones Repertory Company, 2023-present
2024 Creatures: Sea Level, Experiments Play Reading Series, La MaMa ETC, NY NY
2024 Medea, La MaMa ETC, NY NY
2023 The Book of Thel, La MaMa Umbria, Campello sul Clitunno ITALY
Ayano Elson, 2024
2024 Part Song/Immortal Life, Danspace Project, NY NY
David Neumann, 2022
2022 The Saint and the Football Players, Mabou Mines, NY NY
Mina Nishimura, 2022
2022 Mapping a Forest while Searching for an Opposite Term of Exorcist, Danspace Project, NY NY
gorno/Glenn Potter-Takata, 2018-present
2024 Yeah yeah no no, Movement Research at the Judson Church, NY NY
2022 Yonsei f*ck f*ck, SUITE/Space, Mabou Mines, NY NY
2022 Mega, Take Root, Green Space, Queens NY
2022 Yonsei yeah yeah, New Dance Alliance Performance Mix Festival #36, Abrons Arts Center, NY NY
2022 Yonsei f*ck f*ck pt. 13, WestFest Dance Festival, NY NY
2022 Yonsei f*ck f*ck pt. 13, Amanda+James Makers Gala, NY NY
2022 Yonsei f*ck f*ck pt. 8, Sarah Lawrence College Dancefilm Festival, Video
2021 Yonsei f*ck f*ck pt. 12, Pioneers Go East Crossroads Festival, NY NY
2021 Yonsei f*ck f*ck pt. 2, Movement Research at the Judson Church, NY NY
2021 Yonsei f*ck f*ck pt. 11, Not Your Mother’s Pan-Asian Festival, Abrons Arts Center, NY NY
2021 Yonsei f*ck f*ck pt. 10, 7 Midnights Physical Research, Arts on Site, NY NY
2021 Yonsei f*ck f*ck pt. 9.1, Amanda+James Summer Happenings Festival '21, Brooklyn NY
2021 Yonsei f*ck f*ck pt. 9, Amanda+James Summer Happenings Festival '21, McCarren Park, Brooklyn NY
2020 Yonsei f*ck f*ck pt. 4, Open Performance, Movement Research, Video
2020 Yonsei f*ck f*ck pt. 3, 7 Midnights Physical Research, Video
2019 Jet of Blood, Sarah Lawrence College, NY
2018 The Toilet of Poetry, Sarah Lawrence College, NY
MINBUZA/The Japanese Folk Dance Institute of New York, 2022-2023
2023 PRIVATE POLICY Fall Winter 2023, New York Fashion Week, NY NY
2022 Japan Day Parade, NY NY
2022 Cherry Blossom Festival, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn NY
Sara Rudner, 2019
2019 Dancing-on-View, Sarah Lawrence College, NY
Elliot Nye, 2019
2019 The Sheepening, A*space, NY
CURATION
DANCE HOLE
The Tank, NYC
October 7, 2022
Featuring work by Asia Stewart, Liana Zhen-ai, evan ray suzuki, & Ragin Smith
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2025 New York State Council on the Arts Support for Artists
2024 BIPOC New Work Track Award Recipient, Cannonball Festival, Philadelphia, PA
2023-24 Makers Lab Residency, Ars Nova, NY NY
2023 Next Generation Residency, Centro Umbro di Residenze Artistiche (C.U.R.A)/La MaMa ETC, Umbria ITALY
2023 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
2023 Satellite Residency, New Dance Alliance, NY NY
2022-23 LiftOff Residency, New Dance Alliance, NY NY
2022 Artistic Residency, The Tank, NY NY
2021 Pollinate, Amanda+James, NY NY
2019 La MaMa Umbria International Scholarship, Spoleto ITALY
EDUCATION
B.A. Sarah Lawrence College
Dance, Theatre, Literature, Cultural Studies