Nia Love

Nia love was most recently awarded the DiP Gibney residence and the  2019 Gibney Presents Artist in Residence. nia love is a 2017 Bessie Award recipient for Outstanding Performer as part of the Skeleton Architecture ensemble, convened by Eva Yaa Asantewaa. She is a daughter, mother, grandmother, activist, choreographer, and educator. She is a two-time Fulbright Fellow, a two-time recipient of the Brooklyn Arts Exchange/BAX Artist-in-Residence program, and two-time recipient of New York Live Arts’ Suitcase Fund Award. Her work has been presented at NYU Skirball, Danspace Project, Harlem Stage, Judson Church, Kennedy Center, New York Live Arts, NOLA Cultural Arts Center, MOCADA, Montpelier Arts Center, PS122, Snug Harbor, and the Nafasi Art Space-Tanzania, among others. Presently, she works at BAX as both the Artist Advisor to the Artist-In-Residence program and the Racial Equity Advisor. love also serves as Assistant Professor at Queens College, Bard College, and The New School. In Sp. 2018, love was a Visiting Professor at UCLA and Sp. 2019 at University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.