Ayana Evans is a NYC based artist. Evans received her MFA in painting from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University and her BA in Visual Arts from Brown University. In 2015 she received the Jerome Foundation's Theater and Travel & Study Grant for artistic research abroad. During the summer of 2016 Evans completed her installment of the residency, "Back in Five Minutes" at El Museo Del Barrio in NYC. The next year she completed a 10 hour endurance based, citywide performance and 100 person performative dinner party in the Barnes Foundation museum (free and open to the public) during the Spring of 2017 for "A Person of the Crowd” which was a major performance art survey featuring artists such as, Marina Abramovic, Tania Bruguera and William Pope L. in Philadelphia, PA. Her international work includes participation in: FIAP performance festival in Martinique, The Pineapple Show at Tiwani Contemporary in London, and Ghana'a Chale Wote festival which drew 30,000 people. Evans was a 2018 Fellow in the Studio Immersion Program at EFA’s Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, as well as, a 2018 resident and grant recipient at Artists Alliance Inc (NYC), and a 2017-2018 awardee of the Franklin Furnace Fund for performance art, and a 2018 NYFA Fellow for Interdisciplinary Arts. She has performed at the Queens Museum, Panoply Performance Laboratory, Crystal Bridges Museum, Newark Museum, Grace Exhibition Space and Bronx Museum. Within the past year she completed her first three solo exhibitions with Medium Tings Gallery( Brooklyn), Cuchifritos Gallery (NYC) and the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop at NADA (Governors Island) and was a summer 2019 artist in residence for Art on the Vine in Martha's Vineyard. Evans recent press includes: ArtNet, New York Magazine's The Cut, Hyperallergic, and the Huffington Post. She is a professor at Brown University. | www.ayanaevans.com