MICHELLE SUI is a multidisciplinary artist, performer, choreographer and filmmaker.
Their work exists at the intersection of moving image, dance, theater, installation, oral history, music and new technologies and draws upon the body and voice in relation to cinematic icons, language in translation, gender and performance, and the dislocations of memory.
Michelle’s films, experimental operas, performances, dance scores and immersive multimedia compositions have been presented in Germany, Italy, France, Poland, the Republic of Georgia, and throughout the U.S. Their decade-long research in polyphonic folk and ritual music traditions has taken them to study and perform in many post-Soviet landscapes of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. They are known for their performance work that merges choreographic and vocal improvisations, and have taught voice, dance, and the visual arts at University of Michigan, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, and Loyola Marymount University.
Past performance venues and residencies include MOCA, LA Music Center, REDCAT, Hammer Museum, Marciano Art Foundation, Chinese American Museum/Pico House, Charlotte Street Foundation, Walker Art Center, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Rubin Museum of Art, Park Avenue Armory, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Abrons Arts Center, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, La MaMa Umbria, and Cité des Arts Paris.
Michelle is a member of the inaugural 2024-2025 Public Art in Development Artist Council, a group of 8 artists selected by the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture to develop recommendations to improve public policy and practices to support artists in LA County.
Their work has received support from Foundation of Contemporary Arts, Center for Asian American Media, Sundance, Rauschenberg Foundation, California Arts Council, New York Foundation for the Arts, Bang on a Can, Poets and Writers, and the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers. B.F.A., New York University Tisch School of the Arts; Bard College Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.