Geo Wyeth
Geo Wyex, fka Geo Wyeth (born 1984) is a primordial ooze musician, performer, and visual artist known for songs, performances and soundscapes works that explore, augment, and reimagine the material poetic articulations of absence. His work often features characters, outcasts and alienated trans / queer subjects, and the cosomologies that come out of such positionality. Based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2017)[1][2]
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]Geo Wyex was born in New York, New York in 1984[3] and grew up in Hell's Kitchen New York City and Montclair, New Jersey.[4] He received a BA from Yale University.[5]
Work
[edit | edit source]Wyex's work combines installation, music and performance[6] in which handmade sets and unusual costumes join with absurd storytelling[7] in performances that break down the boundaries between the audience and the performer and create an experience of communal intimacy.[8]
Awards and fellowships
[edit | edit source]Among the honors which Geo Wyex has earned are:
- Dolf Henkes Prijs Rotterdam, NL -(2021)[9]
- Mondriaan Fonds Deltaworkers Residency (2019)[10]
- Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten Residency (2015)[3]Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Art Matters Foundation Grant (2012)[11]
- Jerome Foundation Travel and Research Grant (2011)[12]
Selected performances
[edit | edit source]Wyex has presented performances at art institutions including MoMA PS1, The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The New Museum, LA MoCA.[13]
- 2024 - "Nobody Wade Never Too Much" - JOAN Gallery, Los Angeles, USA[14]
- 2018 - I'm A Chip/Make This Music Disappear - Buda Kunstencentrum, Kortrijk, NLD[15]
- 2017 - Juice CrosxxxSing - The New Museum, New York City, USA[16]
- 2016 - Storm Excellent Salad - MoMA PS1, New York City, USA[17]
References
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External links
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- 1984 births
- American performance artists
- American queer artists
- American transgender artists
- Living people
- Yale University alumni
- American contemporary artists
- 21st-century American artists
- Artists from New York City
- American expatriates in the Netherlands
- American transgender men
- Transgender male musicians
- American transgender musicians
- American queer musicians