EDUCATION
2007 New York University. Gallatin School of Individualized Study. B.A.
AFFILIATION
2011 - PRESENT Colored Girls Hustle
2012 - 2020 Echoing Ida
2014 - 2019 Harriet's Apothecary
2008 - 2014 The Doula Project
PROJECTS
2022 - PRESENT Black Womens Dept. of Labor
2020 - 2021 Birth Justice Podcast NYC
2021 - PRESENT II XI XX (two | eleven | twenty): A Biomythography Project
2021 - PRESENT Pleasure Rituals
2021 - PRESENT The Invitation
2018 - 2019 Colored Girls Hustle Marketplace
KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
2021 "Pleasure Rituals | An Invitation" Cultivating Joy and Collective Restoration Conference. Harvard University. Virtual
2020 "Re-Membering is the Responsibility of the Living" Black Lives Matter Teach-In. Pratt Institute. Brooklyn, NY
RESIDENCIES | FELLOWSHIPS | GRANTS | AWARDS
2020 Sound Up. Spotify
2020 A Blade of Grass Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art
2019 NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Public Artist in Residence. Bronx, NY
2019 Maynor-Biggers Artist Fund. Hampton, VA
2017 Dixon Place. Artist-in-Residence. NY, NY
2017 New York Foundation for the Arts. Artist as Entrepreneur Bootcamp for Artists of Color. NY, NY
2016 Denmark Arts Center Residency. Denmark, ME
2015 Fall Space Grant. Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Brooklyn, NY
2014 EMERGENYC. Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University. NY, NY
2014 Create Change Fellowship. Laundromat Project. NY, NY
EXHIBITIONS
2019 "Re-Membering is the Responsibility of the Living" (iteration 3) Art League Houston. Houston, TX
2019 "Re-Membering is the Responsibility of the Living" (iteration 2) Practice Gallery. Philadelphia, PA
2019 "Re-Membering is the Responsibility of the Living" (iteration 1) George Washington Carver Museum. Austin, TX
2018 "This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering" No Longer Empty. King's County Hospital. Brooklyn, NY
2018 "This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering" Philbrook Museum. Tulsa, OK
2017 "This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering" Fair. Spinello Projects. Miami, FL
2017 "This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering" Equity Gallery. NY, NY
2017 "This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering" SPRING/BREAK Art Show. NY, NY
2015 "This Ain’t A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering" STooPS. Brooklyn, NY
2015 "This Ain’t A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering" Gallatin Arts Festival at New York University. NY, NY
2015 "This Ain’t A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering" La Mama Theater. NY, NY
SCREENINGS
2021 "Pleasure Rituals | An Invitation" Keynote Presentation. Cultivating Joy and Collective Restoration Conference. Harvard University
2021 "Pleasure Rituals: An Invitation | Orgasmic Bathing, A Venus Day Ritual" Poetic License Festival: A Feeling Good Ritual. Virtual
2021 "This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering" Healing the Black Body, Community Ritual. Virtual
2018 "This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering" Athens Festival of Queer Performance. Athens, Greece
2018 "This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering" Women to the Front. New York, NY
2018 "This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering" Luminal Theater. Brooklyn, NY
2018 "This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering" Rhodes College. Memphis, TN
2018 "This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering" Black Women's Arts Festival. Philadelphia, PA
2018 "This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering" African American Art and Culture Complex. San Francisco, CA
2018 "This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering" The Wexner Center for Arts. Columbus, OH
2018 "This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering" Black Gotham Experience. New York, NY
2017 "This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering" Kelly Street Collaborative. Bronx, NY
2017 "This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering" Black Dance on Film. Richard Beavers Gallery. Brooklyn, NY
2017 "This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering" Black Magic Shorts Festival. Washington, DC
2017 "This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering" Queer Healing Films. Raumerweiterungshalle. Berlin, Germany
2017 "This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering" Black Queer Brooklyn on Film. Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY
2017 "This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering" Her Dream Deferred. Hammer Museum. Los Angeles, CA
2017 "This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering" SPARK Spring Film Festival. Brooklyn, NY
2017 "This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering" Black Artstory Month. Brooklyn, NY
SOLO PERFORMANCES (VIRTUAL)
Pleasure Rituals
04.2021 Poetic License Festival: A Feeling Good Ritual
04.2021 Cultivating Joy and Collective Restoration. Harvard University Graduate Student Conference
SOLO PERFORMANCES (IRL)
The Bag Lady Manifesta
04.2019 Fusebox Festival. George Washington Carver Museum. Austin, TX
12.2018 FREE! (excerpt). Miami, FL
11.2018 Afterglow at Oberon. The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University. Boston, MA
11.2018 The Late Nite Series at Pillsbury House Theater. Minneapolis, MN
10. 2018 The Rotunda. Philadelphia, PA
09.2018 Rhodes College. Memphis, TN
09.2018 Philbrook Museum. Tulsa, OK
05.2018 Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas. Seattle, WA
05.2018 TRANS-Ville (excerpt). New York, NY
11.2017 Five Myles Gallery (excerpt). Brooklyn, NY
09.2017 Dixon Place. NY, NY
11.2016 Submerge: will you? (work-in-progress presentation) Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Brooklyn, NY
Is it a Crime
03.2020 The Noire Pageant. House of Yes. Brooklyn, NY
Gonna Make You Mine
11.2017 Golden Lady Burlesque. New York, NY
09.2017 SHADES of Burlesque. Brooklyn, NY
08.2017 House of Whimsy. Spiegeltent. Bard College. Annandale on Hudson, NY
06.2017 SHADES of Burlesque. Brooklyn, NY
06.2017 Switch N' Play. Brooklyn, NY
04.2017 Sweet Fantasy Burlesque. Cobra Club. Brooklyn, NY
04.2017 Perle Noire Presents Perlesque. Drom. NY, NY
Of Grief and Water
06.2016 Denmark Arts Center. Denmark, ME
12.2015 Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Brooklyn, NY
Between Holding On & Letting Go
10.2015 Houseworld. Brooklyn, NY
Love Me Good
09.2015 Movement Research at Judson Church. New York, NY
TRINITY
07.2015 Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Brooklyn, NY
Race Jones
02.2018 Unbound Bodies. Boston, MA
08.2017 House of Whimsy. Spiegeltent. Bard College. Annandale on Hudson, NY
06.2017 Switch N' Play. Brooklyn, NY
03.2017 House of Whimsy. New York Live Arts. New York, NY
11.2016 Brooklyn Museum Target First Saturdays. Brooklyn, NY
07.2016 Daring Duality. Hot! Festival. Dixon Place. New York, NY
02.2016 LAVAlentines. Brooklyn, NY
09.2015 SHADES of Burlesque. WOW Café Theater. New York, NY
06.2015 In the Middle of Things. New York, NY
05.2015 Opentoe Peepshow. Brooklyn, NY
This Ain’t a Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering
06.2017 Brooklyn Museum Target First Saturdays. Brooklyn, NY
04.2017 Civil Liberties and Public Policy Conference. Hampshire College. Amherst, MA
04.2016 5th Annual May Day Free University. Washington Square Park. New York, NY
02.2016 SEIU 1199 Bread and Roses Cultural Project. Martin Luther King Jr. Labor Center Gallery. New York, NY
11.2015 Imaging Justice for the Dark Divine. Bushwick Starr. Brooklyn, NY
07.2015 Movement for Black Lives Convening. Cleveland, OH
06.2015 STooPS. Brooklyn, NY
06.2015 Allied Media Conference. Detroit, MI
04.2015 Moon Show. Brooklyn, NY
04.2015 Fertile Ground. National Black Theater. Harlem, NY
04.2015 Gallatin Arts Festival. New York University. New York, NY
02.2015 SEIU 1199 Bread and Roses Cultural Project. Martin Luther King Jr. Labor Center Gallery. New York, NY
01.2015 SQUIRTS: New Voices in Queer Performance. La Mama Theater. New York, NY
The Rain
07.2014 Submerge: Benefit for Audre Lorde Project. BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance. Bronx, NY
06.2014 EMERGENYC. La Mama Theater. New York, NY
letitgo letitgo letitgo
05.2014 Art in Odd Places for EMERGENYC. Public Performance. New York, NY
Miss Black America
08.2013 Rivers of Honey. WOW Café Theater. New York, NY
07.2013 Brown Girls Burlesque Broad Squad Institute Graduation Show. WOW Café Theater. New York, NY
Sacrifice
12.2011 Rivers of Honey. WOW Café Theater. New York, NY
10.2011 Body Ecology Residency, Solo Works-in-Progress. La Casa Atabex Ache. Bronx, NY
PRESS & INTERVIEWS
08.2020 Womanly Interview: Taja Lindley (founder of the Birth Justice Podcast NYC) | Womanly Magazine
07.2020 Black Lives Matter Begins with Black Maternal Mortality | A Blade of Grass
06.2019 The Performance Starts Now with Taja Lindley | Sick Day Podcast
05.2019 Taja Lindley: There's Work to be Done | Austin Art Talk Podcast Episode 63
05.2019 Art Talk: Artist Activist Taja Lindley | AMMO
04.2019 Taja Lindley: Memory Worker, Healer, and Activist | Black Girl in Om
04.2019 Say Their Names: Taja Lindley's The Bag Lady Manifesta | Fusebox Festival
04.2019 Artists as 'Creative Problem Solvers' at City Agencies | The New York Times
04.2019 Taja Lindley Turns Her Artistic Eye to Black Maternal Mortality | Colorlines
11.2018 The Responsibility of the Living | American Repertory Theater
11.2018 Looking Back, Walking Forward | Improper Bostonian
11.2018 Your Guide to Arts in Boston for Fall 2018 | Boston Magazine
09.2018 Taja Lindley's "The Bag Lady Manifesta" | Memphis Flyer
05.2018 The 63 Best Things To Do in Seattle This Week: May 14-20, 2018 | The Stranger
05.2018 5 Performance Artists to Follow on Instagram | Art Zealous
02.2018 #ArtPowerWomen Series: Meet Performance Artist Taja Lindley | Art Zealous
12.2017 Why Miami's All Women Art Fair Doesn't Have Anything for Sale | Artsy
12.2017 Fair Brings a Forum for Feminist Art at Brickell City Centre | Miami New Times
12.2017 All Women Art Fair at Brickell City Center is a Non-Commercial Protest | WPLG Local 10
09.2017 Modern Griots Recap: The Bag Lady Manifesta | Aker: Futuristically Ancient
08.2017 Harriet's Squad: Black Women Using Ancient Healing Methods As Resistance | ELLE
06.2017 Black Queer Brooklyn on Film Focuses on Diverse Voices | The New York Times
04.2017 The Dance Enthusiast Hits the Streets to See Taja Lindley's Film "This Ain't a Eulogy" | The Dance Enthusiast
04.2017 Trash Bag Performance Art Highlights the Resilience of the Black Community | VICE
03.2017 WATCH: Taja Lindley's Short Film on the Importance of Black Lives | Colorlines
03.2017 6 Rooms Not to Miss at Spring/Break 2017 | Blouin Artinfo
03.2017 A Tour of the 2017 Spring/Break Art Show | ARTnews
03.2017 Best of Spring/Break | Bedford + Bowery
03.2017 Taja Lindley//This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering | Open House
02.2017 Short Film Draws Parallels between Violence Against Black People and Wastefulness | Afropunk
02.2017 Taja Lindley Releases Short Film "This Ain't A Eulogy" | Feministing
02.2017 "This Ain't A Eulogy" Premiere Puts Light on Violent Treatment of Blacks Amid Healing | Kings County Politics
10.2016 It Is Necessary to be Able to Dream | Contemporary And Magazine
10.2016 Submerge Spotlight: Taja Lindley | Helix Queer Performance Network
