Ala Nunu
Ala Nunu was born in 1994 in Poznań Poland, and is currently based in Portugal. She studied at University of Arts in her hometown, Royal College of Art in London and La Poudriere in Valence, France. She…
2023 Festival Artists
Get to know the 2023 Fusebox Festival Artists listed below (alphabetically)
Alex McAdoo
Alex McAdoo is a painter from Bellingham, Washington and is currently living and working in Los Angeles. He received his BFA in graphic design from University of Utah in 2013 and his MFA in painting from…
Alexis Hunter
Alexis Hunter is an identity-based, multidisciplinary artist currently living and working in Austin, TX. She earned a BFA from Texas State University in Studio Art with a concentration in painting and…
Amrita Hepi
Amrita Hepi (b. 1989, Townsville of Bundjulung/Ngapuhi territories) is an award winning artist. Her current practice is concerned with dance as social function performed within galleries, performance spaces,…
Amy Bench
Amy Bench is a cinematographer and filmmaker whose work spans documentary and fiction films. As a cinematographer her credits include TRANS IN AMERICA (Emmy, 2019), UPROOTED (HBO Max, 2021), BAD AT DANCING…
Anya Molyviatis
Anya Molyviatis sculpts visual and tactile landscapes by unifying her love for fibers and design. With color gradients, weaving structures, and materiality, she shapes space into one with depth and motion….
APHIDS
APHIDS is a 28-year-old artist-led experimental art organization based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Collaborative and future-focused, APHIDS is led by Co-Directors Lara Thoms and Mish Grigor with Executive…
Augusto Meijer
Augusto Meijer (Rotterdam, Netherlands) is an Electroacoustic music composer, has an European Media Master of Arts degree focused on electroacoustic music, and various composition techniques from the Utrecht…
Balún
Balún is an indie band from Brooklyn by way of San Juan whose smart, joyous music is framed by the stateside Puerto Rican perspective. They beat the music journalists at their own game when they came…
Beth Schindler
Beth Schindler, an artist, producer and curator living and working in Austin, TX. Working in textiles, video, photography and found materials, creating ephemeral installations and performance. She has…
Brian Wenner
Brian Wenner (Brooklyn, NY) is a Brooklyn-based music composer, sound designer and performer. His artistic practice combines sample collage techniques and live electronic improvisation to create realtime…
Chill Pillsbury / Hexseq
Chill Pillsbury / Hexseq (Austin, TX) is an American artist, composer, and music producer based in Austin, TX. His works deal with themes such as desolation and hopelessness and possess a pronounced dark…
Chris Grace
Chris Grace is best known for playing Jerry on NBC’s Superstore and can also be seen in PEN15, Broad City, Atypical, and more. His solo show “Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johansson” debuted…
Dorian Wood
Dorian Wood (b. 1975, pronouns: she/her/they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Her intent of “infecting” spaces and ideologies with her artistic practice is born from a desire…
Ecocentric Future Lab
At the Ecocentric Future Lab located at UT Austin, under the direction of Assistant Professor Jiabao Li, we are dedicated to fostering a radical shift in our understanding of the world and our place in…
Elisha Luckett
Elisha Luckett is a photographer, filmmaker and poet, born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised in Houston, Texas. His work, including his first exhibition, [solomon//thecircleUNBROKEN], explores the unified…
Elizabeth Hudson
Elizabeth Hudson is a mixed-media surrealist painter from Dallas, Texas. She studied studio art at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and art history at the University…
Emmett Palaima
Emmett Palaima (Brooklyn, NY) is an artist working with electronics and esoteric processes of sound creation. His practice is conceptually rooted in the idea that technology and magic are one and the same,…
Erin Cunningham
Erin Cunningham (b. 1979 Honolulu, HI) is an artist living and working in Austin, Texas. She received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003 and an MFA in studio art from The University…
Future Front
Future Front is a 501c3 nonprofit, homegrown in Austin. Outside of their flagship spaces, they host year-round workshops and meet-ups, as well as curate resources for resilience in creative industries….
Games Y’all
Games Y’all celebrates, amplifies, and supports the unique and underrepresented within indie games and beyond. We center diversity, community, curiosity, and play. As a program of The Museum of Human…
Greedy Peasant
Greedy Peasant/Tyler Gunther is a New York based artist and tassel archivist. He has collaborated with several artists and filmmakers, including as a designer & performer in Robin Frohardt’s…
James Talambas
James Talambas (Fort Worth, TX) is a multi-disciplinary new media artist, composer, producer, and activist who creates site-specific, multi-dimensional, multi-sensory sculptures, murals, and performances….
Jaylen Pigford
Jaylen Pigford is an Afro-Latino painter born and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas and based in Houston. The son of an African-American father and a mother of Mexican descent, Pigford is a self-taught artist…
Jeannelle Ramírez
Jeannelle Ramírez is curator, festival producer, multimedia artist, writer, and researcher based in Austin. She is the founder and director of Future Traditions Fest, a platform for innovative Latinx…
Jeff Khan
Jeff Khan is a writer and curator based in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia) Currently the Creative Director of Asia TOPA: Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts, at Arts Centre Melbourne and formerly Artistic…
Lauren Lee McCarthy
Lauren Lee McCarthy is an artist examining social relationships in the midst of surveillance, automation, and algorithmic living. She creates performances inviting viewers to engage. To remote control…
Loc Huynh
Loc Huynh (b. 1992 Austin, TX) earned his BFA from Texas State University in 2016. He did some graduate work at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and received his MFA from the University of North Texas…
Lyman Hardy
Lyman Hardy (Austin, TX) is an Emmy nominated sound designer and musician living in Austin, TX. His work ranges from spatial sound installations, feature films and documentaries to modular synth compositions,…
Michael Anthony García
Multidisciplinary artist & independent curator Michael Anthony García, claiming both Mexican and US citizenship, is based in Austin, Texas, and predominantly focuses his practice around photography/…
Michael J Love
Michael J. Love is an interdisciplinary tap dance artist, scholar, and educator. His embodied research intermixes Black queer feminist theory and aesthetics with a rigorous practice that critically engages…
Michelle Marchesseault
Marchesseault is a mutli-disciplinary artist and designer, formerly based in Austin, and now NYC.
Moïa Jobin-Paré
Moïa Jobin-Paré was born in 1978, and grew up in the countryside and in the city. She is a filmmaker at the crossroads of animation and photography. She has developed a unique and innovative scraping…
Poncili Creación
Poncili Creación is an art collective, composed of identical twin brothers Pablo and Efrain Del Hierro from Santurce, Puerto Rico. Known for their creative and improvisational approach to puppetry, the…
Prem Krishnamurthy
Prem Krishnamurthy (b. 1977) is a designer, author, and educator. He received the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Communications Design in 2015 and KW Institute for Contemporary Art’s “A Year…
Rachel Livedalen
Rachel Livedalen’s creative practice explores representations of femininity through the lens of art history and visual culture. She earned her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Iowa and her…
Rachel Mars
Rachel Mars is a writer and performer based in the UK. She works at the cross-over of performance art and theatre, interrogating the possibilities of live assembly; female, Jewish and Queer identities…
Rachel Simone Weil
Rachel Simone Weil combines approaches from electrical engineering, art history, and DIY culture to create video art and electronic objects that reimagine the history of technology. She has produced glitch…
Rachel Starbuck
Rachael Starbuck is an artist, educator and organizer who lives and works in Austin, TX. Her work operates with tactile erotics— thin skins and fluid bodies negotiating the space between distance and…
Rolling Ryot
Rolling Ryot is a spatial sound art collective in Austin, Texas. We design immersive multichannel spaces for soundscapes, sound art, and music compositions. We compose and commission work for unique sonic…
Rude Mechs
Rude Mechs is a performance collective formed in Austin in 1996. We have collaboratively created dozens of original performances; some with very big ideas, some with cheap laughs, and most with occasional…
Salvage Vanguard Theater
Salvage Vanguard Theater based in Austin TX, is a nonprofit organization that provides accessible, affordable, artistic exchange between an inclusive community of artists and audiences through high quality…
Sebastian DeWay
Sebastian DeWay (Montreal, Canada) is a French Canadian who regards himself as belonging to this generation of composer-producer-performer who use the laptop as a musical instrument. This compositional…
Shawn Smith
Shawn Smith was born in 1972 in Dallas, TX where he attended Arts Magnet High School and Brookhaven College before graduating from Washington University in St. Louis, MO with a BFA in Printmaking in 1995. …
Shunsaku Hayashi
Shunsaku Hayashi (b.1992, Osaka) is a painter and experimental filmmaker, exploring the intersection of experimental film, animation and painting. “Interstitial” (2017) won the Grand Jury Prize for…
SJ Norman
SJ Norman is an anti-disciplinary artist, author, curator and cultural organizer. His career has spanned two decades and many forms. His most recent major exhibitions include the 4th National Indigenous…
Sofia El Khyari
Sofia El Khyari grew up in Casablanca. She moved to Paris to study cultural management, learning animation on her own. She directed her first short film and then obtained a Master’s degree in animation…
Steve Parker
Steve Parker is an artist that works with salvaged musical instruments, amateur choirs, marching bands, urban bat colonies, flocks of grackles, and pedicab fleets to investigate systems of control, interspecies…
Sulaiman Shabazz
From rocking songs and stages with Madlib, Chance The Rapper, Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist to directing creative programming for multi-million dollar hotels like Soho House and The LINE, Sulaiman doesn’t…
Sumito Sakakibara
Sumito Sakakibara (b. 1980, Hokkaido). Sumito graduated from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2004 with a MA degree in Animation. After spending 10 years in Europe, Sumito is now back in Japan, living…
Susan Scafati
Susan Scafati is an American conceptual artist based in Austin, TX who explores how individual versus collective identities and personal versus cultural mythologies are constructed. She explores the iconography…
The Collaborative Art + Technology Situation (CATS+)
The Collaborative Art + Technology Situation (CATS+) is a residency and community program at The Museum of Human Achievement that encourages thoughtful, critical, creative engagement with technology. The…
The Semi-Modulars
The Semi-Modulars is an electronic music group made up of students in the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired’s synthesis and sound design class. Founded in 2013, the group utilizes…
Tammie Rubin
Tammie Rubin (b. Chicago, Il) is an artist whose sculptural practice considers the intrinsic power of objects as signifiers, wishful contraptions, and mythic relics while investigating the tension between…
UTimATX
UTim ATX is a group of graduate students led by Kate Freer from the UT live design & production MFA. As media and experience designers, they create story-based installations that engage, inform, and…
Weylin Neyra
b. in Miami (1991), currently residing in Austin, TX. Weylin Neyra is a Nicaraguan self-taught artist whose work references the tensions of power balance in the world and within ourselves. Latin heritage…