EVENING LENGTH
“Heera,” Abrons Arts Center; New York, NY; June 2022.
“Air,” Performance Space New York; New York, NY; January 2020.
“Bouquet,” The Chocolate Factory Theater; Long Island City, NY; April 2019.
“Album,” American Realness Festival; New York, NY; January 2018.
“Yugoslavia,” Danspace Project; New York, NY; October 2017.
“Originators,” ISSUE Project Room AIR Show, Abrons Arts Center; New York, NY; January 2016
SELECTED GROUP & MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
“Brownout” Video Performance for Baryshnikov Arts Center; March 2021.
“Solo B” Video Performance for The Shed Open Call; August 2020.
“Yugoslavia,” Bitef Theater; Oct 27 Belgrade, Serbia; October 2019.
“Album,” The Bergen Assembly Parliament of Bodies Biennial; Bergen, Norway; September 2019.
“Futurity,” The Whitney Biennial; New York, NY; June 2019.
“Soundings,” The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Chicago, Il; January 2019.
“Album,” The Hirshhorn Museum; Washington, DC; July 2018.
”Sky Circle,” Dance Roulette; Brooklyn, NY; February 2014.
PUBLISHED BOOKS
“Mariana Valencia’s Bouquet” published by 3 Hole Press, 2019.
“Album” published by Wendy’s Subway, 2018.
GRANTS + AWARDS
Creative Capital Award; New York, NY. 2022.
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Extended Life Grant; New York, NY. 2019.
The Bessie Award for Best Production (Nominee); New York, NY. 2021.
The Bessie Award for Outstanding “Breakout” Choreographer; New York, NY. 2018.
The Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant to Artists Award; New York. NY. 2018.
The Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant; New York, NY. 2015.
Jerome Travel and Study Grant; New York, NY. 2015.
The Yellow House Fund of the Tides Foundation Grant; New York, NY. 2010.
RESIDENCIES
Devised Theater Working Group at The Public Theater; New York, NY. 2020.
The Rosin Foundation Residency at Movement Research; New York, NY. 2019.
Dance In Process at Gibney Dance Center; New York, NY. 2019.
Creative Exchange Lab at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art; Portland, OR. 2018.
Brooklyn Arts Exchange; Brooklyn, NY. 2016.
Perform(a) Festival; Skopje, Macedonia. 2016.
Kondenz Festival; Belgrade, Serbia. 2016.
ISSUE Project Room; Brooklyn, NY. 2015.
Show Box L.A. Residency; Los Angeles, CA. 2014.
Pieter Pasd Residency; Los Angeles, CA. 2014.
New York Live Arts Studio Series Residency; New York, NY. 2013-14.
Chez Bushwick; Brooklyn, NY. 2013.
COLLABORATIONS as PERFORMER
AK Burns, Elizabeth Orr, Em Rooney, Fia Backstrom, Geo Wyeth, Guadalupe Rosales, Jules Gimbrone, Kim Brandt, Morgan Bassichis, MPA, O’Helen, and robbinschilds.
COSTUME STYLING
“Adult Documentary” (2016); “Folk Incest” (2018) and “Family Happiness” (2023) by Juliana May
Mariana researches self-representation, collectivity and abstraction through dance. She was born in Chicago, IL amidst multicultural collaboration, attended Hampshire College with a vast constellation of queers in Amherst, MA, and in 2006 moved to New York to live as a choreographer.
Photos by Ian Douglas