Narcissister, a performance character, employs humor and spectacle to explore gender, racial identity, and sexuality. Narcissister wears masks, pneumatic breasts, outlandish wigs, and trompe l’œil costumes to deconstruct stereotypical representations. By opening up and turning against themselves “fixed and closed stereotypical representations,” she exposes, in live performance, video, film, sculpture, and collage, the practice of representation itself, and challenges the audience to question its own enjoyment and titillation. This work draws on her previous careers as a professional dancer and commercial artist and her long-standing visual art engagement.
At Brown University, Narcissister discovered a passion for modern dance. Upon graduating from Brown, she moved to New York City to continue studies as a scholarship student at Alvin Ailey American Dance Center. After a year of study at Ailey, she began to dance professionally in the United States and in Europe while continuing to also develop a visual art practice. After seven years of dancing professionally, she decided to concentrate fully on visual art.
As Narcissister, she has presented work in New York at The New Museum, MoMA PS1, The Kitchen, and at many nightclubs, galleries, and alternative art spaces. Narcissister’s art videos have been included in exhibitions and film festivals worldwide. In 2018, her first feature film, Narcissister Organ Player had its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival and at the 2018 SXSW Festival.
She had her first solo exhibition abroad, “Narcissister,” at Kendall Koppe Gallery in Glasgow in 2024, and she is currently working on a new sculpture and performance that will be part of the “Carnival” exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York in 2025. A commission for a new Narcissister theatrical piece directed by Lucas Hnath at Playwrights Horizons in New York will have a 2026–2027 premiere. She will also have a solo exhibition at Margot Samel Gallery in New York in 2026.