Chip Kimura is a transdisciplinary artist, dancer, and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Their work approaches curation, performance, and text as sites for mutually embodied encounter, queer temporality, and speculative dialogue toward postcolonial landscape. Kimura has published writing in Heichi Magazine, Weekend, Another Tab of Chrome, No Dancing, and Ginger Magazine. Kimura is currently an M.A. candidate in Performance Studies at NYU (2023), received an MFA in New Genres from Hunter College (2019), a B.A. in Sculpture from Bard College (2006), attended LANDING 2.0 (2017), and MSA^ Mountain School of Art (2011). They have performed and exhibited work in New York, Los Angeles, Portland (OR), Ithaca, Berlin, Basel, and Oslo. In 2012 Kimura co-founded Complimenta Inc., an artist-run center in Enfield, NY, hosting site-specific programming with local and international artists from 2012-2015. Grants & Awards include the Agnes Gund Curatorial Fellowship (2018), Kossak Painting Travel Grant (2017), NYSCA Artist Collective Grant (2013, 2014), Beth M. Uffner Scholarship (2004, 2005).

Why PS @ NYU?

Performance Studies offers an ideal place for my research at the intersections of gender, race, and class, to take meaningful shape, and gain cultural relevance among a vibrant cohort and faculty.