Taja Lindley lives and works in Tennessee
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EDUCATION
2007
Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Bachelor of Arts. NY, NY
Concentration: Public Policy and Knowledge Production. Focus: Health and Women of Color.​
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KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
2021
“Pleasure Rituals | An Invitation" Cultivating Joy and Collective Restoration Conference. Harvard University. Virtual
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2020
"Re-Membering is the Responsibility of the Living" Black Lives Matter Teach-In. Pratt Institute. Brooklyn, NY
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RESIDENCIES | FELLOWSHIPS | GRANTS | AWARDS
2020
A Blade of Grass Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art
Sound Up. Spotify
2019
Public Artist in Residence. NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Bronx, NY
Maynor-Biggers Artist Fund
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2017
Artist-in-Residence. Dixon Place Theater. NY, NY
Artist as Entrepreneur Bootcamp for Artists of Color. New York Foundation for the Arts. NY, NY
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2016
Artist-in-Residence. Denmark Arts Center. Denmark, ME
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2015
Fall Space Grant. Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Brooklyn, NY
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2014
EMERGENYC. Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University. NY, NY
Create Change Fellowship. Laundromat Project. NY, NY
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Re-Membering is the Responsibility of the Living (iteration 3) Art League Houston. Houston, TX
Re-Membering is the Responsibility of the Living (iteration 2) Practice Gallery. Philadelphia, PA
Re-Membering is the Responsibility of the Living (iteration 1) Carver Museum. Austin, TX
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Mama Needs a Raise! Toward A Utopian Care Economy. Old Stone House. Brooklyn, NY
2019
(after)care. No Longer Empty. Kings County Hospital. Brooklyn, NY
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2018
Remember This: Life on Video. Philbrook Museum. Tulsa, OK
2017
Fair. Spinello Projects. Brickell City Centre. Miami, FL
Not the End. Equity Gallery. NY, NY
SPRING/BREAK Art Show. NY, NY
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PERFORMANCE RITUAL FILM SCREENINGS
2024
Pump & Feed. Pump & Feed: A Call & Response Community Conversation. Old Stone House. Virtual
2021
Pleasure Rituals. Poetic License Festival: A Feeling Good Ritual. Virtual
Pleasure Rituals. Cultivating Joy and Collective Restoration. Harvard University. Virtual
This Ain't A Eulogy. Healing the Black Body Community Ritual. Virtual
2018
This Ain't A Eulogy. Athens Festival of Queer Performance. Athens, Greece
This Ain't A Eulogy. Women to the Front. NY, NY
This Ain't A Eulogy. The Porch presented by the Luminal Theater. Richard Beavers Gallery. Brooklyn, NY
This Ain't A Eulogy. Rhodes College. Memphis, TN
This Ain't A Eulogy. 12th Annual Black Women's Arts Festival. Philadelphia, PA
This Ain't A Eulogy. The Black Woman is God: Assembly of the Gods. African American Art and Culture Complex. San Francisco, CA
This Ain't A Eulogy. Columbus Black International Film Festival. Wexner Center for the Arts. Columbus, OH
This Ain't A Eulogy. Nerdy Thursdays - Social Justice Night. Black Gotham Experience. NY, NY
2017
This Ain't A Eulogy. African American Policy Forum. Hammer Museum. Los Angeles, CA
This Ain't A Eulogy. Black Queer Brooklyn on Film. Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY
This Ain't A Eulogy. Kelly Street Collaborative. The Laundromat Project. Bronx, NY
This Ain't A Eulogy. Black Dance on Film. Richard Beavers Gallery. Brooklyn, NY
This Ain't A Eulogy. Black Magic Shorts Festival. Anacostia Arts Festival. Washington, DC
This Ain't A Eulogy. Queer Healing Films. Raumerweiterungshalle. Berlin, Germany
This Ain't A Eulogy. Black Queer Brooklyn on Film. Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY
This Ain't A Eulogy. Her Dream Deferred. Hammer Museum. Los Angeles, CA
This Ain't A Eulogy. SPARK Spring Film Festival. The Actors Fund Arts Center. Brooklyn, NY
This Ain't A Eulogy. Black Artstory Month. Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership. Brooklyn, NY
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​SOLO PERFORMANCE RITUALS
2023
Pump & Feed. We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Postpartum Nutrition & Infant Feeding. Virtual
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2020
Is it A Crime. The Noire Pageant. House of Yes. Brooklyn, NY
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2019
The Bag Lady Manifesta. Fusebox Festival. Carver Museum. Austin, TX
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2018
The Bag Lady Manifesta. Afterglow at Oberon. American Repertory Theater at Harvard University. Cambridge, MA
The Bag Lady Manifesta. Late Nite Series. Pillsbury House Theater. Minneapolis, MN
The Bag Lady Manifesta. Philbrook Museum. Tulsa, OK
The Bag Lady Manifesta. Central District Forum. Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute. Seattle, WA
The Bag Lady Manifesta. (excerpt) Five Myles Gallery. Brooklyn, NY
The Bag Lady Manifesta. (excerpt) FREE! Spinello Projects. Miami, FL
The Bag Lady Manifesta. The Rotunda. Philadelphia, PA
The Bag Lady Manifesta. Rhodes College. Memphis, TN
The Bag Lady Manifesta. (excerpt) TRANS-Ville Act V. Catinca Tabacaru Gallery. NY, NY
Race Jones. Unbound Bodies. Boston, MA
2017
The Bag Lady Manifesta. Dixon Place Theater. NY, NY​
This Ain’t a Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering. Target First Saturdays. Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY
This Ain’t a Eulogy. Civil Liberties and Public Policy Conference. Hampshire College. Amherst, MA
Gonna Make You Mine. Golden Lady Burlesque. NY, NY
Gonna Make You Mine. SHADES of Burlesque. Brooklyn, NY
Gonna Make You Mine. House of Whimsy. Spiegeltent. Bard College. Annandale on Hudson, NY
Race Jones. House of Whimsy. Spiegeltent. Bard College. Annandale on Hudson, NY
Gonna Make You Mine. SHADES of Burlesque. Brooklyn, NY
Gonna Make You Mine. Switch N' Play. Brooklyn, NY
Race Jones. Switch N' Play. Brooklyn, NY
Gonna Make You Mine. Sweet Fantasy Burlesque. Brooklyn, NY
Gonna Make You Mine. Perle Noire Presents Perlesque. Drom. NY, NY
Race Jones. House of Whimsy. New York Live Arts. NY, NY
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2016
This Ain’t a Eulogy. SEIU 1199 Bread and Roses Cultural Project. NY, NY
The Bag Lady Manifesta. Submerge: will you? (work-in-progress) Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Brooklyn, NY
This Ain’t A Eulogy. 5th Annual May Day Free University. Washington Square Park. NY, NY
Of Grief and Water. (work-in-progress) Denmark Arts Center. Denmark, ME
Race Jones. Brooklyn Museum Target First Saturdays. Brooklyn, NY
Race Jones. Daring Duality. Hot! Festival. Dixon Place Theater. NY, NY
Race Jones. LAVAlentines. Brooklyn, NY
2015
This Ain’t a Eulogy. Movement for Black Lives Convening. Cleveland, OH
This Ain’t a Eulogy. National Black Theater. Harlem, NY 04/15
This Ain’t a Eulogy. Imaging Justice for the Dark Divine. Bushwick Starr. Brooklyn, NY
This Ain’t a Eulogy. SQUIRTS: New Voices in Queer Performance. La Mama Theater. NY, NY
Of Grief and Water. (work-in-progress) Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Brooklyn, NY
Between Holding On & Letting Go. Houseworld. Brooklyn, NY
Love Me Good. (work-in-progress) Movement Research at Judson Church. NY, NY
TRINITY. (work-in-progress) Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Brooklyn, NY
Race Jones. SHADES of Burlesque. WOW Café Theater. NY, NY
Race Jones. In the Middle of Things. NY, NY
Race Jones. Opentoe Peepshow. Brooklyn, NY
This Ain’t a Eulogy. STooPS. Brooklyn, NY
This Ain’t a Eulogy. Allied Media Conference. Detroit, MI
This Ain’t a Eulogy. Moon Show. Brooklyn, NY
This Ain’t a Eulogy. Gallatin Arts Festival. New York University. NY, NY
This Ain’t a Eulogy. SEIU 1199 Bread and Roses Cultural Project. NY, NY
2014
The Rain. Submerge. BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance. Bronx, NY
The Rain. EMERGENYC. La Mama Theater. NY, NY
letitgo letitgo letitgo. EMERGENYC. Art in Odd Places. NY, NY
2013
Miss Black America. Rivers of Honey. WOW Café Theater. NY, NY
Miss Black America. Brown Girls Burlesque Broad Squad Institute Graduation Show. WOW Café Theater. NY, NY
2011
Sacrifice. Rivers of Honey. WOW Café Theater. NY, NY
Sacrifice. (work-in-progress) Body Ecology Residency. La Casa Atabex Ache. Bronx, NY
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PRESS & INTERVIEWS
2021
"A Creative’s Perspective with Taja Lindley" Zoomcast Series. Feminine Divine Brooklyn (FDBK)
"Dance on 4th!" Zoomcast Interview. Fourth Arts Block NYC (FABnyc)
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2020
“Pass the Mic: Brooklynite Launches Podcast on Black Maternal Mortality, Reproductive Justice” Brooklyn Paper
“Womanly Interview: Taja Lindley (founder of the Birth Justice Podcast NYC)” Womanly Magazine
“Black Lives Matter Begins with Black Maternal Mortality” A Blade of Grass
2019
“Review: Local Exhibitions Point to Ways to People of Color Were Freed but Still Aren't Free” Austin Chronicle
“The Performance Starts Now with Taja Lindley” Sick Day Podcast Episode 20
“Taja Lindley: There's Work to be Done” Austin Art Talk Podcast Episode 63
“Art Talk: Artist Activist Taja Lindley” AMMO
“BK Artist Chosen for Project Surrounding Black Maternal Health in the Bronx” News 12 The Bronx
“Taja Lindley: Memory Worker, Healer, and Activist” Black Girl in Om
“Say Their Names: Taja Lindley's The Bag Lady Manifesta” Fusebox Festival
“Artists as 'Creative Problem Solvers' at City Agencies” The New York Times
“Taja Lindley Turns Her Artistic Eye to Black Maternal Mortality” Colorlines
2018
“The Responsibility of the Living” American Repertory Theater
“Looking Back, Walking Forward” Improper Bostonian
“Your Guide to Arts in Boston for Fall 2018” Boston Magazine
“Taja Lindley's ‘The Bag Lady Manifesta’" Memphis Flyer
“The 63 Best Things To Do in Seattle This Week: May 14-20, 2018” The Stranger
“Bag, Bath & Beyond: Bag Lady Manifesta and Broken Bone Bathtub Both Explore Memory, Trauma, and the Body” Seattle Gay Scene
“5 Performance Artists to Follow on Instagram” Art Zealous
“#ArtPowerWomen Series: Meet Performance Artist Taja Lindley” Art Zealous
2017
“Why Miami's All Women Art Fair Doesn't Have Anything for Sale” Artsy
“An All Female Art Fair Takes on Gender Inequality with a Show at a Miami Shopping Mall” Artnet News
“Fair Brings a Forum for Feminist Art at Brickell City Centre” Miami New Times
“All Women Art Fair at Brickell City Center is a Non-Commercial Protest.” WPLG Local 10
“Modern Griots Recap: The Bag Lady Manifesta” Aker: Futuristically Ancient
“Performance as Participatory Policymaking: Taja Lindley's TRINITY, Black Life as Burlesque” CONTINUUM: The Journal of African Diaspora Drama, Theatre, and Performance
“Harriet's Squad: Black Women Using Ancient Healing Methods As Resistance” ELLE
“Black Queer Brooklyn on Film Focuses on Diverse Voices” The New York Times
“The Dance Enthusiast Hits the Streets to See Taja Lindley's Film ‘This Ain't a Eulogy’” The Dance Enthusiast
“Trash Bag Performance Art Highlights the Resilience of the Black Community” VICE
“WATCH: Taja Lindley's Short Film on the Importance of Black Lives” Colorlines
“6 Rooms Not to Miss at Spring/Break 2017” Blouin Artinfo
“A Tour of the 2017 Spring/Break Art Show” ARTnews
“Best of Spring/Break” Bedford + Bowery
“Short Film Draws Parallels between Violence Against Black People and Wastefulness” Afropunk
“Taja Lindley Releases Short Film ‘This Ain't A Eulogy’" Feministing
"’This Ain't A Eulogy’ Premiere Puts Light on Violent Treatment of Blacks Amid Healing” Kings County Politics
“A Conversation with Taja Lindley” Hemispheric Institute
2016
“It Is Necessary to be Able to Dream” Contemporary And Magazine
“Submerge Spotlight: Taja Lindley” Helix Queer Performance Network
