HIghlighted works
VIVA ART ACTION - Performance art festival
Montréal, QC. Oct 2025
The was the 9th edition of the ViVA Art Action Festival. For one week 250-300 people conveened nightly to experience performances of all variations by an international mix of artists. NOTE: “I don’t know of another festival (currently running) with this much care for performance artists and their craft.” - Ayana Evans
“How Often Are You Photographed Without Your Permission?
Jessica Lanay, the 2024-2025 Artist & Scholar-in-Residence for the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Loyola University-Chicago, curated this exhibition which was also Evans’s first ever solo exhibiton in her hometown of Chicago. How Often Are You Photographed Without Your Permission? was on view April 3-May 10th 2025. The show highlighted Ayana Evans’s mediums of performance art, photography, Installation, and video painting. This show highlighted her ongoing OperationCatsuit Series and included a studnt workshop, live performance and artist talk. This work focused on the pressures of self-determination, self-love, surveillance, race, and gender. Students participated in the public performance. Video by MARSZ Flight.
Loyola University Chicago, IL 2025
wanawari walk the block festival
(Seattle, Washington 2023)
Loophole of Retreat
(Venice 2022)
WASSAIC RESIDENCY 2021
For one week, Tsdedaye Makonnen and I performed in and around the area of Wassaic, New York - an area with a rich history of BLack Liberation via the underground railroad. These images in collaboration with Tsedaye Makonnen, are from the Black Femme Residency, founded and curated by Douglas Turner. The Wassaic Project hosted this residency for the 2021 iteration.
All photos were taken by Theo Coulombe.
For sixth months in 2020 I was sick with long Covid and living alone. During this time I began making weekly performaces.
Pandemic performances
A Celebration of Women’s Suffrage in the USA hosted by Franklin Furnace, Zoom performance, 2020.
Tearing down the blinds was from my first performance
while in quarantine, Instagram live performance, 2020..
