Lani Asunción (they/she) is an interdisciplinary multimedia artist creating socially engaged public art. Their work weaves together a visual language guided by historical research, community engagement, and experimental performance connected to their identity as a queer multiracial Filipinx-American. Using ritualized performance, Asunción integrates transmedia storytelling through new media technologies that encourage conversations that facilitate healing and collective empowerment in the face of cultural violence, oppression, and ancestral intergenerational trauma in the midst of the climate change crisis.

Asunción has performed live at MFA Boston, Now + There Lot Lab, Somerville Museum, Little Berlin in Philadelphia, and Aurora Picture Show in Houston, TX. They have facilitated community and public art projects at Brookline Arts Center, Boston Children’s Museum, Boston Cyberarts, Urbano Project, and Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia. They have been awarded artist residencies at the Studios at MASS MoCA as a Future Frequencies Fellow, Vermont Studio Center, Santa Fe Art Institute, Wedding Cake House, Caldera Arts Center, and BigCi in Australia. Asunción is an awardee of the Live Arts Boston Grant (2020), City of Boston's Transformative Public Art grant (2020), Dame Joan Sutherland Fund from the Australian American Association (2017), and Kala Fellowship Award (2023) from Kala Art Institute. Their project Revolutionary AYAT was awarded the Public Art for Spatial Justice Grant (2022) from New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA). They are Artistic Director and founding member of Digital Soup, a multimedia art and performance collective supporting inclusive spaces for queer BIPOC artists. They are also a member of the BCA Studio Resident Program at Boston Center for the Arts (2022-25). They received their MFA (2011) from the UConn School of Fine Arts with a focus in video and performance

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