Elaine Tin Nyo is a conceptual artist with a kitchen and a studio in Harlem and locker full of dance shoes in downtown Manhattan.
Selected Performance Projects
2017
Atelier Slice, Stockholm, Sweden/New York, NY. Duchamp Dust Dinners
2016
LabSpace, Hillsdale, NY. Sour Cherry Pie Lesson
2015
Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. The Boating Party
2013
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Edible Magritte.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. On Meat and Mortality.
2011
Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY. The Fourth Leg. A whole animal butchery class.
2010
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY. Picture Garden. Interactive event.
Art Shanty Projects, Minneapolis, MN. Black Bania. Public art project.
2009
Swiss Institute, New York, NY. Three Minutes of Intimacy. Public art performance.
Private location, Brooklyn, NY. The Beast Menu. Private art performance.
2008
Seoksu Art Project, Anyang, South Korea. Kimchi, Jeotgal, Makgeoli. Food seminar on fermentation.
Färgfabriken Norr, Östersund, Sweden, Three Minutes of Intimacy, 2008. Public art performance.
Disarmory, New York, NY. The Wartime Ball. Costume ball and performance event.
Over the Opening, Brooklyn, NY. I Want to Make Tamales. Cooking demo.
2007
Art In General, New York, NY. The Eat In. Email-based performance and event. www.the-eat-in.blogspot.com
Capital City Arts Initiative, Carson City, NV. Three Minutes of Intimacy. Public art performance.
2006
Ambush, Chez Bushwick, Brooklyn NY. The Lobster Course. Cooking demonstration and lecture.
Kitchen Theater at the French Culinary Institute, New York, NY. The Lobster Course. Cooking demo and lecture.
2004
Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY. First Dance.Videos, installation and events.
Segal Theater, New York, NY. The Pleasure of Your Company. Interactive social dance event. During Social Capital: Forms of Interaction curated by Howie Chen, Allison Moore and Leta Ming.
2002
Dixon Place, New York, NY. Rumba is Just Burma Spelled Sideways. Choreography by Christian Baerens.
2000
Fargfabrikan, Stockholm Sweden. Don’t Try This at Home and A Lesson in Cuban Motion, 2000. Cooking and dance demos.
The Kitchen, New York, NY. Fast Forward’s Feeding Frenzy, 2000. Guest chef.
1999
Downtown Arts Festival, Chelsea Market, New York, NY. The Lobster Course, 1999. Lecture and cookbook.
1998
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York NY. The Lingua Burma. Lecture.
Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY. Lo-Fi Baroque, January. The Lingua Burma. Lecture.
1997
Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY. Bingo!. Performance event, Bingo card editions and video project.
1996
Creative Time, Creative Time’s Holiday Buffet. Web page.
Museum of Chinese in the Americas, New York, NY. Make Mohinga with Me. Multimedia cooking demo and shopping guide.
Deitch Projects, New York, NY. The Bake Sale. Event.
Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY. The Pot Luck Dinners. Performance event and cookbook.
Lauren Wittels Gallery, New York, NY. Egg Curry during Show and Tell.(premiere). Multimedia cooking demo.
1995
Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NY. Pie Expo, during In Three Dimensions. Event and cookbook.
Selected Exhibitions
2017
Grefti Cultural Project, Umbertide, Italy. Zelai Bizitzako (The Life of Mud)
2016
Labspace, Hillsdale, NY. CHOW
2015
Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York, NY. Value of Food (curated by Kirby Gookin and Robin Kahn)
CR10, Linlithgo, NY. FOODshed (curated by Amy Lipton)
2014
Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY. Makers Biennial
Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. FOODshed
Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY. Eat! The 60th Anniversary Feast, Program 1: Friends with Benefits (curated by Jason Fox for Flaherty Seminar)
2013
Atelier Food, Swedish Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm, Sweden. Carl Larsson Cooked Pizza (curated by Jan Aman)
21C Museum Hotel, Louisville KY, Genisis One: Salies-de-Bearn to Hasparren
2012
The Aurora Picture Show, Houston TX. The Universal Backyard Theater.
Nurture Art, Brooklyn NY. Is This Free?
2011
Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, New York, NY. The Pleasure of Slowness.
Center for Book Arts, New York, NY. With Food in Mind.
Palais des Nations for the United Nations Offices, Geneva, Switzerland. The Raw & The Cooked: Art, Food and Agriculture.
2010
Da Gallery, New York, NY. Open Kitchen.
Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY. PQ: 100.
Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York. First Supper.
2009
Vendor Bar, E|AB Fair, New York. Big Ball Bar. Performance collaboration with Nancy Hwang
Triple Candie, New York. Eye World.
Room, Auckland, NZ. Instructional Show.
Phillips Collection, Washington DC. CAFÉ.
2008
Seoksu Art Project, Anyang, South Korea, Open Studios.
Bupyeong History Museum, Bupyeong, South Korea, Role Playing.
Färgfabriken, Östersund and Stockholm, Sweden, Teleport Fargfabriken.
Paloma, Brooklyn NY. Edible Complex.
2007
Main Gallery, Western Nevada Community College , Carson City, NV. How To Cross the Street.
1999
Brenau University, Atlanta GA. Girls’ School.
Downtown Arts Festival, Rare Gallery, New York, NY. Food Video Screening. (Eel)
ArtLab, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada. FoodCulture
1998
Leslie Tonkonow & Bound & Unbound, New York, NY. Disappearing Act.
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York NY. Keeping up with the Joneses.
1996
Deitch Projects, New York, NY. Shopping.
Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY. Offerings.
Soho 20, New York, NY. Oo La La!
1995
The Swiss Institute, New York NY. Chocolate!
D.A.R.E., Dallas TX. Selections From Blindspot.
1994
Four Walls, Brooklyn NY. The Beauty Show.
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York NY. Bad Girls.
Neueberger Museum, Purchase, NY. (Also, Center for Photography at Woodstock, 1993.)
1993
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA. Science Fair.
Awards/Honors/Other
Siena Art Institute, Summer Resident Artist, 2015
Creative Capital Grant, 2013.
Member, dBfoundation
Franklin Furnace Grant, 2008-2009.
Seoksu Art Project Residency, Fall 2009.
Community Arts Project commission, Capital City Arts Initiative, 2007.
Collaborative Arts Project grant, Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2004.
Collaborator, Four Walls Slide and Film Club
Costume Designer and Dramaturg, Gail Gilbert Dance Company,1995-2000.
Costume Designer, David Grenke Dance, 1998.
Artist in Residence, Asian American Art Center, 1992.
Carnegie-Mellon Press Award for Poetry, 1983.
USA Dance amateur ballroom dance competitor, ten International style dances.
Artistic Director, EFA Gallery 2006-2008.
Born in Rangoon, Burma. U.S. citizenship, 1975. Has kept a studio, and kitchen in New York since 1984.
Education
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA. BFA, Painting, 1984.
State University of New York, New York NY. Empire State Studio Program, Fall 1984.
Pennsylvania Governors School for the Arts, Bucknell University, 1979.
Publications
How Food Stole the Avant-garde. 2014. Essay for Hyperallergic.com.
Sour Cherries 2012. 2014. Artist book.
Is This Free? 2012. Exhibition catalogue.
The Three-Legged Pig. 2011. Artist book.
Three Questions for Slice. 2011. Interview by Jan Aman.
First Supper.2010. Artist book.
The Disarmory. 2008. Newspaper by dBfoundation.
Creative Time: The Book. 2008. Anne Pasternak and Lucy Lippard.
A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World. 2008. Marcia Tucker and Liza Lou.
The Pitfalls and Payoffs of Crossing the Street. 2007. Exhibition catalogue essay by Kris Vagner.
We Did Everything Wrong. 2008. Exhibition catalogue essay by Jan Aman, Fargfabriken.
What We Want Is Free: Generosity And Exchange In Recent Art. 2005. Essay by Bill Arning, edited by Ted Purves. State University of New York Press .
FoodCulture: Tasting Identities and Geographies in Art. 1999. Edited by Barbara Fischer, essay by Bill Arning, recipes by Elaine Tin Nyo. YYZ Books, Toronto.
Visualizing Women in the Middle Ages: Sight, Spectacle, and Scopic Economy (Middle Ages Series). 2001. Madeline H. Caviness.
Parachute vol. 87. 1997. Relational Sense by Jennifer Fisher.
Shopping, exhibition publication. 1996. Jerome Sans and Deitch Projects.
Offerings, exhibition catalogue. 1996. Essay by Samantha Tsao.
New Observations: Incarnations. 1996. Edited by Paul Dickerson.
Bad Girls, exhibition catalogue. 1994. Marcia Tucker and New Museum of Contemporary Art.
Picturing Ritual: the Working Intersices of Photographic Practice, exhibition catalogue. 1994. Essay by Cornelia Butler.
Promotional Copy, 1993. Organized by Robin Kahn.
Blindspot, Charter Issue. May 1993.