running interference IV
2025
running interference II
2025
spirit will (siempre) 
2025
running interference III
2025
untitled / play 
2025
bas du fleuve, installation (2024)
What Matter’s Here.?! Exhibition, Small Center, New Orleans, LA
bas du fleuve, installation (2024)
What Matter’s Here.?! Exhibition, Small Center, New Orleans, LA
bas du fleuve, installation (2024)
What Matter’s Here.?! Exhibition, Small Center, New Orleans, LA
bas du fleuve, installation (2025)
Climate Culture Salon #4, SCALE, New Orleans, LA
bas du fleuve, installation (2025)
Climate Culture Salon, SCALE, New Orleans, LA
bas du fleuve, installation (2025)
Climate Culture Salon #4, SCALE, New Orleans, LA
oya’s audacity I (2025)
mixed media on glass
24x28
*side A
oya’s audacity I (2025)
mixed media on glass
24x28
*side A
oya’s audacity I (2025)
mixed media on glass
24x28
*side A
oya’s audacity I (2025)
mixed media on glass
24x28
* side B
oya’s audacity I (2025)
mixed media on glass
24x28
* side B
oya’s audacity I (2025)
mixed media on glass
24x28
* side B
whispers from elsewhere (2025)
mixed media on wooden mirror
46x40
whispers from elsewhere (2025)
mixed media on wooden mirror
46x40
whispers from elsewhere (2025)
mixed media on wooden mirror
46x40
whispers from elsewhere (2025)
mixed media on wooden mirror
46x40
theShore:in/SIGHT (2021) 
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA


theShore:in/SIGHT (2021) 
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA


theShore:in/SIGHT (2021) 
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
theShore:in/SIGHT (2021) 
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
theShore:in/SIGHT (2021) 
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
theShore:in/SIGHT (2021) 
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA




theShore:in/SIGHT II (2024) 
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
theShore:in/SIGHT II (2024) 
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
theShore:in/SIGHT II (2024) 
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
theShore: in/SIGHT II (2024)
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
theShore:in/SIGHT II (2024) 
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
theShore:in/SIGHT II (2024) 
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
modjeskamodjeskamodjeska (2023)
Hotel Peter and Paul, New Orleans, LA
modjeskamodjeskamodjeska (2023)
Hotel Peter and Paul, New Orleans, LA
modjeskamodjeskamodjeska (2023)
Hotel Peter and Paul, New Orleans, LA
modjeskamodjeskamodjeska (2023)
Hotel Peter and Paul, New Orleans, LA
modjeskamodjeskamodjeska (2023)
Hotel Peter and Paul, New Orleans, LA
modjeskamodjeskamodjeska (2023)
Hotel Peter and Paul, New Orleans, LA
modjeskamodjeskamodjeska (2023)
Hotel Peter and Paul, New Orleans, LA
modjeskamodjeskamodjeska (2023)
Hotel Peter and Paul, New Orleans, LA
modjeskamodjeskamodjeska (2023)
Hotel Peter and Paul, New Orleans, LA
modjeskamodjeskamodjeska (2022)
alt.home residency, Los Angeles, CA
modjeskamodjeskamodjeska (2022)
alt.home residency, Los Angeles, CA
modjeskamodjeskamodjeska (2022)
alt.home residency, Los Angeles, CA
modjeskamodjeskamodjeska (2022)
alt.home residency, Los Angeles, CA
modjeskamodjeskamodjeska (2022)
alt.home residency, Los Angeles, CA

paris cian (see-ahn)


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paris cian (1996) is an artist-scholar and curator native to and living in New Orleans, LA. Her art explores themes of devotion, time, Black memory, Black girlhood, climate change, and impermanence.



Education


MFA in Choreography, Roehampton University, London, United Kingdom
2021

BFA/BA in Dance, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
2018




Archive


watabodies, (digital archive)
2024

home(love)making:watercrossing (film)
2024

m3.LA (film)
2022

theShore:in/SIGHT (film)
2021

home(love)making; woodlandcrossing (film)
2020



Press

HowlRound Theatre Commons MicroCosmos Essay,
Surviving, Sustaining, and Grieving in Place
(2025)

A Studio in the Woods Rising Climate Crisis Residency (2024)

BODYPOETRY: A SHORT FILM (2023) by Zandashé Brown

NYFA Anonymous Was A Woman Enviornmental Arts Grant Recipient (2022)

#MYBODYPOETRYIS (2022), Dance as an instrument for Mental Health by LEDE NEW ORLEANS

Contemporary Arts Center Artist in Residence (2021)
theShorein:SIGHT Film x Interview

Visual Arts Research Journal (2021), 2323BlackLuna (film)



“...ceremonies carry potential for transformation.” - Tiffany Lethabo King