Grisha Coleman

Grisha Coleman is a time-based artist working in areas of choreography and performance, experiential technology and sound composition. Her practice and research explore relationships across physiological, technological and ecological systems; human movement, our machines, and the places we inhabit.

Her art and scholarly work echo::system  is a springboard for re-imagining the environment, environmental change and environmental justice through assembled dance, sound/visual media and computation. Her current project, The Movement Undercommons: Technology as Resistance | Future Archives (developed as a Radcliffe Fellow, 21/22), builds a repository of vernacular movement-as-data lexicon, centered around identity and embodied cultural narrative.

Her work has been generously supported by The National Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Multi-Arts Project [MAP] Fund, Creative Capital, the Jerome Foundation, the Surdna Foundation Thriving Cultures Grant, the MacDowell Arts Colony, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Carnegie Mellon University’s STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Pioneer Works, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center and Stanford University’s Mohr Visiting Artist Fellowship. 

Coleman earned an MFA in music composition and integrated media from California Institute of the Arts. Previous to the academy, she worked full-time as a dancer/choreographer with the acclaimed dance company The Urban Bush Women, and later created the music performance group Hot Mouth, which toured internationally and was nominated for the NYC Drama Desk Award for ‘Most Unique Theatrical Experience.’

She holds the position of Professor of Movement, Computation, and Digital Media in the in the College of Arts, Media, and Design at Northeastern University, and remains affiliated with the School of Arts, Media, and Engineering, the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the Center for Race and Democracy at Arizona State University.

Ms. Coleman is a New York City native.