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CONTACT: RIAN@BLACKBROWNBIENNALE.ORG
b. Houston, TX
has lived and worked in New Orleans, LA and Houston, TX
BIO
Rian (raven) Crane (he/they/elle) is a organizer and post-disciplinary performance artist interested in black diasporic rebellion as an anti-thesis to borders, gender, and prisons. Their work explores the paradox of hypervisibility for black +/ trans folks as well as the ongoing genocidal settler project of anti-blackness, displacement, colonial-made borders and severed ties from the land. Their work posits black fugitivity as a refusal to the colonial imagination; they imagine blackness in relation to land, water, and nonhuman kindred. He collaborates with other artists and communities to counter isolation, individualism, and the hyper-productivity of End-capitalism.
CV
Bachelor of Arts from Loyola University of New Orleans: Philosophy | Film
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The Wassaic Project | August - September 2024 | Wassaic, NY | Summer Artist Residency
- Big Meduim -The Line Hotel Residency | April-May 2023 | Austin, TX | Artist-in-Residency
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Artists' Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions (ACRE) Artist Residency | August 2022 | Steuben, WI | Resident
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BIPOC Arts Network & Fund Grant (BANF) | 2021-22 | Houston, TX | Co-Grant Recipient for Black Brown Biennale (BBB)
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MediaJustice Network Fellowship (MJNF) | 2021 | Nationally | MediaJustice Network Fellow
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“In the Sun” PYMxCASP | October 2021 | Houston, TX | Panelist/ Community Member in Solidarity
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Soil Tongue: A Southern Language Online Exibition | 2021 | Nationally | Co-Curator via Black and Brown Biennale (BBB)
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Common Field Covening: Beyond the Binary Brunch | April 2020 | Nationally | Organizer, Facilitator, Panelist
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Idea Fund Round 12 Stimulus Grant Recipients | 2020 | Houston, TX | Black TM for Black and Brown Mail Art Biennale
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the dye/dying/ dieing of our lives Performance | 2019 | Bayou City Be All | Houston, TX | Black TM
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Artist Communities Alliance ( ACA ) Diversity + Leadership Fellow Recipient | 2019 | Nationally
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TRANSforming whiteness and art institutions Performance + Installation | October 2019 | Blaffer Art Gallery | Black TM
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Wildfire (2019) | UNO Gallery - Black TM, Installation
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FI-RE: THINKING ABOUT THE MUNDANE PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE Performances | 2019 | UNO Gallery | New Orleans, LA | Co- Curator
- There is Enough for Everyone Art Exhibit | 2019 | Houston TX | Black TM