New York

Arien Wilkerson

(They/Them)

Arien Wilkerson is a Philadelphia-based gender-fluid black queer choreographer, performer, filmmaker, and installation artist. Wilkerson is the founder of Tnmot Aztro, a collaborative multidisciplinary performance installation company. Tnmot Aztro considers that the complexities within art derive from the alienation of objects, identities, the body, sounds, and humans, among many things. As an entity, the artistic practice is rooted in repurposing or redefining the meanings of “fine art” and its attachments to colonialism, white supremacy, and institutionalized racism.

Wilkerson was recently awarded funding from The Graham Foundation for advanced studies in fine arts (20-21), The Velocity Fund (21), the Sachs Program for arts & Innovation at Upenn (2020), 2019 The Greater New Haven Arts Council & Connecticut office of the arts - Artist Workforce Initiative Sponsorship (2019), The Connecticut office of the arts Artist Fellow (2019).