— About
Artist Bio
Nico (they/she) is a queer Filipinx light designer, production manager, creative technologist, and multidisciplinary light artist that uses audiovisual equipment, interactive technologies, and digital fabrication tools for live performances, light sculptures, and installations.
They are the production manager at Center for Performance Research and lighting designer for the live production of Oscar shortlisted documentary 32 Sounds. They completed their postdoctoral artist residency at NYU Tisch’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, where they earned their Masters of Professional Studies.
Their audio-reactive light installations have been featured in the Illumination Light Art Festival, Other Art Fair, and at several music venues including Knockdown Center, Elsewhere, and National Sawdust.
ARTIST STATEMENT
As a non-binary queer person of color, Nico’s continuation to explore light as an art medium in a white-male dominated space is an act of resistance and a manifestation of QPOC indulgence, joy, and pleasure. Light is radiating, warm, mesmerizing, and they believe at its very essence, light can be void of controversy, classism, and racism.
Music and nightlife has always been Nico’s source of inspiration, consumed by light and sound, sharing space with the rest of the community, with the belief that specific nightlife spaces allow for escapism, release, and liberation regardless of the identities one may hold.
They want to reimagine the art world, and create a non-hierarchical community of dominantly QPOC creatives, where they can share ideas, work collaboratively and respectfully, resigning individual authorship and dismantling systems of power.
Past Shows
2022
FOURTHWORLD - Knockdown Center, Maspeth Queens
Within The River Within // ITP Spring Show - NYU ITP, Brooklyn, NY
2021
Within The River Within // Illumination Light Festival - Under the ‘K’ Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY
Lenticular Panel for AYI AYI - Heaven or Las Vegas, Brooklyn, NY
Lenticular Horizon - Elsewhere, Brooklyn, NY
Lenticular Horizon // ITP Thesis Week - NYU ITP, Brooklyn, NY
2020
Lenticular Sunrises - Fireplace, West Village
Vortex // NYU ITP Winter Show - NYU’s YORB, Virtual Exhibition
Light Altar // SHRINES - Ace Hotel, NY, NY
Lenticular Portals - ZeroSpace Virtual Space, NY, NY
Lenticular Portals // Engineers Week - Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, NJ
Glowing With Fire // LIPPtv - LIPPtv Live Stream, Virtual Show
Gesture Controlled DMX Lighting // ITP Spring Show - NYU ITP Virtual Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Light Altar // SHRINES - National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY
2019
Lenticular Portals // ITP Winter Show - NYU ITP Floor, Brooklyn, NY
Lenticular Sunrises // The Other Art Fair - Brooklyn Expo Center, Brooklyn, NY
Between Two Oceans // KAPWA by Sari Sari - Canal Street Market, NY, NY
Live Visuals for OCTONOMY // OCTONOMY Warhorse EP Release - Hart Bar, Brooklyn, NY
Live Visuals for Zach Allen Starkey // ULTRAVIOLET - Gold Sounds, Brooklyn, NY
Live Visuals for LAENZ // LAENZ EP Release - Refuge Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
Sunrise Collective // Anyone, Anywhere: Feelings - Kinfolk, Brooklyn, NY
Kitchen Mania // MAGFEST - Gaylord National Convention Center. National Harbor, Maryland
2018
Presence Container // Anyone, Anywhere: Bodies - The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Kitchen Mania // MakerFaire - Hall of Science, Queens, NY
Kitchen Mania // New Forms of Interaction - Brooklyn Research, Brooklyn, NY
Rainbow Waterfall // Anyone, Anywhere: Earth - The Living Gallery Outpost, NY, NY
2016
Foreshadow // Welding Show - Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, NY, NY
2015
Dripping Crotch Chandelier // Life, Love and Death - The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
