Biography


Faye Driscoll is a Doris Duke Award-winning performance maker who has been hailed as a “startlingly original talent” by The New York Times and “a post-millenium postmodern wild woman” by The Village Voice. She was the 2021-2022 Randjelovic/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Bessie award, and the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award among many others. Her work has been presented at Wexner Center for the Arts, ICA Boston, MCA Chicago, REDCAT, OZ Arts, and BAM, and internationally at Tanz im August, Kunstenfestivaldesarts (2021, 2024), La Biennale di Venezia, Festival d’Automne à Paris (2015, 2023), Melbourne Festival, Julidans Amsterdam, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Athens Epidaurus Festival, Centro de Arte Experimental in Buenos Aires, Festival Dias da Dança in Porto, and Festival TransAmeriques (Montreal). Faye received an Obie Award (2023) and the Grand Prix (2024) at the Prix de la Danse de Montréal for her latest performance-installation, Weathering, which is currently touring internationally.

Driscoll’s first ever solo exhibition, Come On In (2020), opened at Walker Art Center and then went on to Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, On the Boards, and Esplanade in Singapore. Driscoll most recently premiered a brand new site-specific work for the shoreline of Rockaway Beach (Queens, NY) called Oceanic Feeling (2024) as part of Beach Sessions Dance Series’ 10th anniversary season.

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Awards

2024 GRAND PRIX de la danse de Montreal, Weathering
2023 Obie Award, Direction, Weathering
2022 Ellis-Beauregard Contemporary Dance Award
2021 Randjelovic/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts
2020/24 MidAtlantic Arts International Award
2019 Performing Arts Residency Lab (PeARL) at Montclair State University
2018 Jacob’s Pillow Artist Award
2016 Doris Duke Artist Award
2016 United States Artist Fellowship
2015 MAP Fund Award
2014 FUSED/French US Exchange in Dance Award 
2014 National Dance Project Production Award
2013 Guggenheim Fellowship
2013 Creative Capital Award
2013 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Artist Award
2012 The Jerome Foundation Award
2010 National Dance Project Production Award
2009 Bessie Award, Outstanding Production