EDUCATION
2010 New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, MFA Interactive Art
2004 University of Texas at Austin, BFA Film and New Media Art, BA Media Studies
RESIDENCIES AND FELLOWSHIPS
2020-22 Pratt Institute Fellowship in Civic Engagement
2021-22 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Process Space Residency, Governors Island, NY
2020-21 More Art Engaging Artists Fellowship
2018-19 Project for Empty Space Artist-in-Residence, Newark, NJ
2018 Anderson Ranch Arts Center Artists-in-Residence, Snowmass Village, CO
2014-17 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency, New York, NY
2016 Mana Contemporary BSMT Residency Curator + Participant, NJ
2015 The Watermill Center Independent Residency, Water Mill, NY
2014 Banff Centre for the Arts Theater Arts Residency, Banff Canada
2013 Team Effort! Artist Residency, Glasgow, Scotland
2010-12 Resident Artist, ITP at NYU in Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY
PRIZES AND AWARDS
2022 NYFA Grant Recipient
2021 Research Impact Award at Pratt Institute
2019 Artist Campaign School Award Recipient
2018 Franklin Furnace Fund Grant Recipient
2017 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant Recipient
2016 Sphinx MPower Artist Grant Recipient with Janinna Norpoth and PUBLIQuartet
2015 Creative Capital On Our Radar Recipient
2014 IDEA Grant Recipient, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada
2012 Audience Award, South by Southwest Film Festival, Austin, TX
2008 Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Study Scholarship, NYU, New York, NY
2007 Audience Award, Cinematexas International Film Festival, Austin, TX
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND TWO PERSON EVENTS
2023 Pool of Nothing That Knows Where It’s Going, Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR
2022 Sun Seekers, The Arts Center at Governors Island: Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY
Sun Seekers Induction 01, Performance, River-to-River Festival, NY
Sun Seekers Induction 02, Performance, World Trade Center Oculus, NY
2017-21 Word on the Street + Workshop on the Street: collaboration w/House of Trees
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, NY
Times Square Arts, NY, NY
River to River Festival, NY, NY
Artpace, San Antonio, TX
Emerson Collective, Washington DC
The Watermill Center, Water Mill, NY
Socrates Sculpture Park, NY, NY
Leila Heller Gallery, NY
2020 Against Doom TV w/Macon Reed, Old Stone House Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2019 GHOSTS, Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ
2018 You Never Know, Performance, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY
You Never Know, Solo Installation & Performance, signs and symbols gallery, NY, NY
2018 I Pledge, Solo Exhibition, Kimmel Gallery at NYU, NY, NY
2017 The Myth of Layla, Solo Exhibition, NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY
The Myth of Layla, Solo Exhibition + Performance Series, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2016 The Scheherazade Project with PUBLIQuartet, National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY
STATUESQUE in collaboration with Erica Magrey, Abrons Art Center, NY, NY
2015 Activists in Sexy Solidarity, The Watermill Center, Water Mill, NY
The Interview, Dixon Place, New York, NY
mantrap, The Glad, Glasgow, Scotland
2014 PROTEST, Eric Harvie Theatre, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada
PRACTICE, The Stone curated by Laurie Anderson, New York, NY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES, AND SCREENINGS
2023 50 Years of Roe v Wade, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Nesting/Anidaciónes, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
Textures of Feminine, Cuchifritos Gallery, New York, NY
2022 Seeking, Performance, Queens Museum, Queens, NY
Sun Seekers, FORMAT Festival, Bentonville, AR
Abortion Stories, LUMP Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Political Intimacy II, Exhibition, Recess, Brooklyn, NY
Wake Up, Group Exhibition, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT
2021 Political Intimacy, Exhibition, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY, NY
Enlivened, Aware, Awake: Symbols of Activism, Group Exhibition, Tang Teaching Museum, NY
Radical Spectacle + Joy with the Wide Awakes, BLM Futures and Utopias Conference, NY, NY
Political Intimacy, Art in Odd Places Festival, New York, NY
Show Up, Performance Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Abortion is Normal, Group Exhibition, Arsenal Contemporary, New York, NY
Armed Disposal, Group Exhibition, Victori + Mo Gallery, New York, NY
Un/raveling: A Collective Mourning, Group Exhibition, Harold Miossi Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
The Further We Roll The More We Gain, Group Exhibition, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Art + Activism, Showfields Gallery, London, UK
Possibilities for Thought and Action, Performance, The New School, New York, NY
Civic Engagement Series: Art + Abolition, Vote Again, Performances, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
2019 Cash is King, Group Exhibition, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Maidez, Group Exhibition, Sotheby’s Gallery, New York, NY
Opposite of a Weapon, Young Curators/New Ideas for Detroit Art Week, Detroit, MI
For Freedoms, Group Exhibition, International Center of Photography Museum, NY, NY
A Pressing Conference, Group Exhibition, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY
Away Message, Group Exhibition, Sweetpass Sculpture Park, Dallas, TX
Workshop on the Street, Performance, LMCC Take Care Series for Part of our Future Climate Change Festival, Governors’ Island, NY
Workshop on the Street, Performance, Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ
It is astonishing the lengths a person will go, Group Exhibition, Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ
2018 You Never Know, Performance, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY
Word on the Street, Banner Pop-up Display, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, NY
It is astonishing the lengths a person will go, Group Exhibition, VOLTA Art Fair, NY, NY
You Never Know, Solo Performance, signs and symbols gallery, NY, NY
A Pressing Conference, Group Exhibition, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, NY, NY
Menopause Pop-up Shop, Group Exhibition, Recess Assembly, Brooklyn, NY
20th Anniversary, Performance, NURTUREArt, Brooklyn, NY
Material Witness Witness Material, Group Exhibition, The Knockdown Center, Queens, NY
Finals, Group Exhibition, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO
2017 PULSE PLAY, Group Exhibition, PULSE, Miami Beach, FL
Stand Up Stand Down, Group Show, The High Line, New York, NY
Whitney Houston Biennial, Group Exhibition, 325 West Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
BODY/HEAD, Group Exhibition, Field Projects Gallery, New York, NY
Archival Alchemy, SAWCC 20th Anniversary Group Show, Abrons Arts Center, NY, NY
Nasty Women Group Exhibition, The Knockdown Center, Queens, NY
...far from the deathless gods, Group Exhibition, Elysium Gallery, Berlin, DE
Arteries Festival, Performance, Van Alen Institute, NY, NY
Cosmic Joke, Performance, Safe Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
CATCH 73, Performance, The Invisible Dog Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
NURTUREArt at EFA Project Space, NY, NY
Vertigo, Performance, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2016 Pseudo, Anti, and Total Dance, Group Exhibition, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
C∆N-D Moves in collaboration with Michael Clemow, Performance, National Arts Gallery, NY, NY
Supersketchy, Group Exhibition curated by AlleyOop Projects, DCTV, NY, NY
LADY ART: Talks, Group Exhibition, New Women Space, Brooklyn, NY
C∆N-D In the Club in collaboration with Michael Clemow and Michael Breslin, Performative Installation, Dixon Place, NY, NY
Thank You Error, Group Exhibition, 68 Jay, Brooklyn, NY
2015 C∆N-D + DRELLA, Performance Series, River to River Festival, New York, NY
RAGE/RELEASE, Performance, Invisible Dog Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
C∆N-D, Performance for AUNTS Residency, ACE Hotel, New York, NY
Absolute Zero, Group Exhibition, Academic Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2014 Approaching -273.15, Group Exhibition curated by Over the Opening, Radiator Arts Gallery, Long Island City, NY
;(, Performance, The Brick Theater, Brooklyn, NY
C∆N-D, Performance, JACK, Brooklyn, NY
Dream Squawk, Performance, Makerfaire, Queens, NY
2013 And Um Yeah, Performance, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
Over Not Over, Group Exhibition, Shea Stadium, Brooklyn, NY
And Um Yeah, Performance, Silent Barn, Brooklyn, NY
2012 little feast, Group Exhibition, Cameo Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
In Proximity, Group Exhibition, 168 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Letter to Obama, Group Exhibition, Experiment Station, Chicago, IL
How do you feel about the holidays, Group Exhibition, Busboys and Poets, Washington DC
2011 One Foot In Each World, Group Exhibition, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
PRACTICE (Chapter 2), Performance, MMix Interactive Arts Festival, New York, NY
PRACTICE (Chapter 1), Performance, Zora Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
One, Group Exhibition, One by One Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Square Root of Love, Group Exhibition curated by Karen Finley, Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY
Delusion, Performance, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
Dream Squawk, Performance, MakerFaire, Queens, NY
Chronotronic, Performative Installation, Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Power Bike Parade, Performative Installation, DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
Power Bike Parade, Performative Installation, Art in Odd Places Festival, New York, NY
Rust Fest, Group Exhibition, McDonough Museum, Youngstown, OH
NIME, Group Exhibition, Exit Art, New York, NY
inside/out, Performance, The Kitchen, New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023. Variety, “Format Festival Performance Art Edge,” Jem Aswad
ARTNews, “FORMAT Fest Lives Up to Promise,” Shanti Escalante-De Mattei
2022 Hyperallergic, “Sun Seeking at Governors Island,” Christen Clifford
The New York Times, “Experience the Healing Power of Art,” Holland Cotter
2021 PAPER Magazine, “We Need to Normalize Abortion,” Savannah Hardman
Art F City, “Explain Me: Political Meditation,” Paddy Johnson
2020 The New York Times, "A Show of Artists Galvanized by the Abortion Debate,” Jillian Steinhauer, January 23, 2020
Hyperallergic, “50 Artists Remind Us That “Abortion Is Normal,” by Marisa Crawford, , January 24, 2020
The Guardian, “Abortion is Normal: the emergency exhibition about reproductive rights,” by Laura Feinstein
PAPER Magazine, “We Need to Normalize Abortion,” by Savannah Hardman
2019 San Antonio Express News “Artpace brings protest banner show to San Antonio,” Deb Martin
Rivard Report “Word on the Street: Banners Give Voice,” Cat Cardenas
Artnet, “Editor’s Picks: 16 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World,” Sarah Cascone
The Amy Beecher Show Podcast: Amy Khoshbin, Amy Beecher
2018 New York Times, "Archival Alchemy on the LES," Holland Cotter
Art21, "Women Artists Bring Protest Messages to Times Square," Lindsey Davis
Artnet, "Feel-Good Slogans in Times Square," Sarah Cascone
Vanity Fair, “For Protesters, You Never Know,” Hilary Weaver
NYMag, “Top Performance Picks” Cassidy Dawn Graves, June 1
2017 Flaunt Magazine, "Word on the Street" Reproduction of Women's March Banners," William Simmons
The Art Newspaper, "Female Artists get the word out in Times Square," Victoria Stapley-Brown
Hyperallergic, “A weeklong Performance Festival Devoted to Surprise,” Benjamin Sutton, June 2
Widewalls, "Word on the Street; Female Artists Take Over Times Square," Angie Kordic
Art F City, “This Week’s Must-See Art Events,” Michael Anthony Farley, Feb 13
Culturebot, “Season Finale of REAL TALK/KIP TALK,” Paul Ketchum, May 10
Filthy Dreams, "In Pursuit of the Day," Osman Can Yerebakan
VECTOR, Issue 9, “Political Comedic Artmaking,” edited by Ellie Krakow
Critical Correspondence, “Amy Khoshbin in Conversation with Carlos Soto,” Tess Dworman, June 3
Asian American Arts Society, "Amy Khoshbin: Redefining Art, Politics, and Their Intersectionality," Robert Lee, May 1
2016 VICE The Creators Project, "Iranian-American Tackles Big Brother with Performance Art," Kara Weisenstein, Oct 30, 2016
Hyperallergic Art RX, "Dystopian Reality Show," Jillian Steinhauer, Nov 22, 2016
Emergency INDEX, Vol. 5, "Activists in Sexy Solidarity," edited by Yelena Gluzman, Sophia Cleary
2015 New York Times, “River to River Festival Heads for a Grand Finale,” Jun 25, 2015
2014 “Dream Squawk and Shadow Puppet Sequencer,” Make Magazine, Apr 23, 2014
“IDEA Performances,” Documentary Broadcast on CBC in Canada, Jan 31, 2014
2012 “Coin Slot Detector Knows You Show Too Much!” Glamour Magazine, Apr 2012
2010 “Power Bike Parade,” Computer Music Journal, Volume 34, MIT Press
“Nerd Art,” Documentary broadcast on RTVE in Spain, Jan 4, 2010
2009 “Dream Squawk,” ITP Book v.1, NYU Publication
2008 “Dream Squawk,” Make Magazine, Dec 2008
“Buttcrack Detector,” Craft Magazine, Oct 2008
“Butt-Crack Detector: Plumbers are hot,” Gizmodo, Oct 2008
“Perceptual Expansion Space/Suit,” Dance-Tech.net Featured Video, May 2008
2004 “East Austin Stories: Female Boxer,” Austin-American Statesman, Jun 25, 2004
“Laying the Foundation: Female Boxing,” News 8 Austin, Broadcast Jun 20, 2004
ARTIST TALKS + PANELS
2023 Amy Khoshbin: Energy Exorcisms + Media Art, University of Nevada
Amy Khoshbin: Healing and Media Art, New York University
2022 Amy Khoshbin: Absurdist Healing + Sun Seeking, NYU Tisch
Amy Khoshbin + Jennifer Khoshbin: Sun Seekers, the Arts Center at Governors Island
2021 Amy Khoshbin: Visual Communication and Governance, New York University Humor and Politics, Hunter College, NY, NY
2020 Revolting Bodies: Performance/Art in Movement Building w/Viva Ruiz, Natalia Broniarczyk, Carmen Hermo, Arsenal Contemporary
2019 Acting Up w/Shaun Leonardo + Guadalupe Maravilla, Tufts University, Boston, MA
Amy Khoshbin: Critical Artmaking + Civic Engagement, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Amy Khoshbin: Visual Communication and Governance, Pratt University
Amy Khoshbin: Performance and Politics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Amy Khoshbin: Art Practice, Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe, NV
2018 Summer of Know w/LA Kauffman + Nat Trotman, Guggenheim Museum, NY, NY
Artists Take the Street w/Tania Bruguera, Anne Carson & Carmen Hermo, PEN World Voices Festival, NY, NY
Amy Khoshbin: Art & Activism, The New School, NY, NY
Amy Khoshbin: Civic Engagement, Columbia University, NY, NY
2017 Amy Khoshbin for Hands Off Our Revolution, International Center for Photography, NY, NY
Archival Resistance curated by Saisha Grayson, Abrons Arts Center, NY, NY
Amy Khoshbin and Social Practice, The New School, NY, NY
Humor and Politics, Hunter College, NY, NY
Intersectional Feminism and Protest, School of Visual Arts, NY, NY
Amy Khoshbin for Hands Off Our Revolution, Fashion Institute of Technology, NY, NY
REAL TALK/KIP TALK, Abrons Arts Center, NY, NY
Life as a Political Artist, NYU, Tisch School of the Arts
2016 Amy Khoshbin and Hybrid Media, NYU, Performance Studies
LADY Art: Talks, New Women Space
Identity and Performance, The Watermill Center
2015 Art and Trauma Lecture, The Guggenheim Museum
Feminist Artmaking Practice, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
2014 Performance and Politics Lecture, Guggenheim Museum
2013 Amy Khoshbin: Performing Identity with Video Art, Bronx Museum of Arts
2010 Video Art Lecture Series, NYU, Tisch School of the Arts
2008 Video Art Lecture Series, Bronx Museum of Art
CURATORIAL INITIATIVES
2021-22 Political Intimacy I + II, Recess Art + Pratt Institute Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Optics: Midterm Election Night, Performance Event + Panel, International Center of Photography
NURTUREArt 20th Anniversary co-curated w/Lauren Silberman, Performance Festival, NURTUREArt, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Stand Up Stand Down, stand-up comedy by artists, The High Line, New York, NY
Movement Research Spring Festival Curator with Laurie Berg & Monstah Black
2016 Mana BSMT, performance series and 6-month residency, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2013 OVERNOTOVER: Performance Festival, Shea Stadium, New York, NY
2009 SHOVE: Interactive Sound Art, The TANK, New York, NY
2003 Parallax View, CinemaTexas International Film Festival, Austin TX
TEACHING POSITIONS
2022-23 Media Art, University of Nevada MFA Interdisciplinary Program, Reno, NY
2021-23 Mentor in Fine Arts, University of Nevada MFA Interdisciplinary Program, Lake Tahoe, NY
2020-22 Studio in Social Practice, Pratt Institute School of Art MFA + BFA Program, Brooklyn, NY
2020-22 Graduate Symposium + Art Theory, Pratt Institute School of Art MFA Program, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Graduate Thesis, University of Nevada MFA Interdisciplinary Program, Reno, NV
2019 Art + Integrated Media, University of Nevada MFA Interdisciplinary Program, Reno, NY
2019 Video Art, The New School: Parsons School of Design, BFA Department of Photography, NY, NY
2019 Digital Arts Toolkit, The New School: Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts BFA, NY, NY
2018 Video Art Post-Production, The New School: Parsons School of Design, BFA Photography, NY
2018 Personal As Political, University of Nevada MFA Interdisciplinary Program, Reno, NY
2017 Integrated Media, New York University: Interactive Telecommunications Program MA, NY, NY
2017 Participatory Performance, New York University: Interactive Telecommunications Program MFA
2016 Identity + Media, The New School: Parsons School of Design, BFA Department of Photography
2015 Art and Trauma Workshop Video Series with Karen Finley, The Guggenheim Museum
2011 PureData Interactive Coding Course, Outpost Artist Resources, Queens, NY
2010 Video Art and Animation Courses, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
2008 Performance and Video for Social Justice Course, Global Action Project, NY, NY
2007 Video Production, Brooklyn College, MFA Performance and Interactive Media Arts, Brooklyn, NY
PUBLICATIONS
2018 VECTOR Artist Journal, “Not Just Words,” Edited by Javier Barrios and Peter Gregorio
2017 Critical Correspondence, “Artists And Equity,” Edited by Tess Dworman
2016 Emergency INDEX, Vol. 5 “Activists in Sexy Solidarity," Edited by Yelena Guzman
2012 Computer Music Journal, “Power Bike Parade,” Volume 34, MIT Press
2009 NYU Publication, “Dream Squawk,” ITP Book v. 1
COLLABORATIONS
2009-23 Laurie Anderson: The Weather, To the Moon, Sidewalk, Habeas Corpus, Delusion, Vivid Live
2017-23 Anne Carson: Word on the Street
2017-23 House of Trees, Word On the Street
2010-16 Karen Finley, The Jackie Look
2012 Tina Barney, Summer Look Video Series