paris cian (see-ahn)
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paris cian (1996) is an interdisciplinary artist and curator native to and living in New Orleans, LA. Working across installation, public art, painting, sculpture, and performance art, her practice mobilizes embodied memory, sustainability, and devotion. Through processes of the poetic, she composes with impermanence, the weather, and Black memory.
Informed by Black girlhood and spatiality, cian’s practice lives within the choreography of worldmaking, repetition, and the non-linear. Her obsessions offer inquiry to transformation and questions of urgency.
Education
MFA in Choreography, Roehampton University, London, United Kingdom
2021
BFA/BA in Dance, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
2018
2021
BFA/BA in Dance, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
2018
home(love)making:watercrossing (film)
2024
m3.LA (film)
2022
theShore:in/SIGHT (film)
2021
home(love)making; woodlandcrossing (film)
2020
Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist in Residence 2026 - New Orleans Artists (2026)
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)