SHAWN ESCARCIGA

Shawn Escarciga (he/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, arts administrator, and organizer exploring the intersection of performance, design, and activism. Shawn's work examines labor, class, and queerness, while speculating on what non-oppressive, anti capitalist structures of art-making/valuing might look like. Their work has been seen throughout galleries, museums, sex parties, and DIY spaces across NYC (Exponential Festival [V Real and Legitimate MFA Thesis Show] MIX NYC, Panoply, CPR, Grace, Inferno, etc.), domestically, and abroad (Tempting Failure Biennial, London; Month of Performance Art, Berlin). They are the founder and co-organizer of the NYC Low-Income Artist + Freelancer Relief Fund alongside co-organizer Nadia Tykulsker. Since March 2020, the fund has raised close to a quarter of a million dollars and paid out to nearly 1000 people in NYC. Shawn has been a part of the INVERSE community since Fall 2018.