Nicolás Dumit Estévez received his MFA at the Tyler School
of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. He is an interdisciplinary
artist working primarily in performance art. His work has been exhibited
in New York at P.S.1/Clocktower Gallery, Sculpture Center, El Museo del
Barrio, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Cynthia Broan Gallery,
the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Dixon Place, P.S. 122, Exit Art, Cuchifritos,
Here Arts Center, Longwood Art Gallery, DCTV, and Deitch Projects among
others, all in New York. His work has also been exhibited at the Museo
de Arte Moderno and the Museo del Hombre Dominicano in the Dominican
Republic; and the Universidad Autónoma de Mexico and Museo de
Ciencias y Arte in Mexico City, Mexico. He was awarded a Future Faculty
Fellowship from Tyler School of Art in PA, a Fellowship from the Vermont
Studio Center in VT, a Special Editions Fellowship from the Lower East
Side Printshop, an Independent Projects Grant from Artists Space in New
York, a Puffin Foundation Grant, and a Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance
Art. Estévez is currently the recipient of a Lambent Fellowship
in the Arts from Tides Foundation.
Estévez is currently creating the permanent counterpart of
an internet-based/performative project entitled For Art's Sake, to
be developed with Franklin Furnace. He is modeling this piece after
the Catholic El Camino de Compostela in Spain, to stage a series of
pilgrimages that reverse the relationship between art and religion.
In this project religion becomes a tool at the service of art as he
endures seven tortuous journeys that begin Downtown Manhattan and conclude
at seven NYC museums.
