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 postmillenium 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 Artist Award among many others. Her work
has been presented at Wexner Center for the Arts, Walker Art Center, ICA/Boston, MCA Chicago and BAM,
and internationally at Tanz im August, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, La Biennale di Venezia, Festival d’Automne à
Paris (2015, 2023), Melbourne Festival, Belfast International Arts Festival, Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens,
Centro de Arte Experimental in Buenos Aires, Festival Dias da Dança in Porto, Théâtre Garonne (Toulouse),
and Le Lieu Unique (Nantes).

She recently premiered Calving (2022) at Theater Bremen (Bremen, Germany), and Weathering (2023) at New
York Live Arts, (NY, USA). In 2020, her first-ever solo exhibition, Come On In, opened at Walker Art Center and
then went on to Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, On the Boards, and Esplanade in Singapore, offering
gallery-goers an experience of six distinct audio-guided experiences called Guided Choreographies for the
Living and the Dead.

Awards

2023 Obie Award, Direction, Weathering
2022 Ellis-Beauregard Contemporary Dance Award
2021 Randjelovic/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts
2018 Jacob’s Pillow Artist Award
2018 PEARL Artist Award
2016 Doris Duke Artist Award
2016 United States Artist Fellowship
2015 MAP Fund
2014 NEFA National Dance Project Production and Touring award
2013 Guggenheim Fellowship
2013 Creative Capital Award