On View: October 12
Dia Chelsea (537 W 22nd St, New York, NY 10011)
Time:
Free. Seating is limited and entry is offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Queuing begins at 4:15pm. Doors open at 5pm. Performance begins at 5:30pm.
NIC Kay: The last gasp of the angry yt man examines the rage and resistance of white men in the face of shifting American societal norms.
The artist continues their exploration and development of the work during a two-week summer residency in Dia Chelsea’s talk space, as part of the Kitchen’s multi year partnership with Dia Art Foundation.
NIC Kay: The last gasp of the angry yt man is commissioned by The Kitchen and organized by Matthew Lyons, Curator, and Angelique Rosales Salgado, Curatorial Assistant, The Kitchen.
BIOS
NIC Kay is a performer, dancer, conceptual choreographer, and all-around artist who uses creative movement, performing-arts history, and performance-art theory to explore relationality and yearning. They are a 2024 Artist-in-Residence at the Stone Quarry Hill Art Park in Cazenovia, New York. NIC Kay’s works have been performed at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto; Encuentro 2019, Mexico City; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Kampnagel, Hamburg; Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Oregon; and Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Zurich, among others. They have exhibited at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, as well as at Gallery 400 and Woman Made Gallery in Chicago. NIC Kay’s dedication to their craft is evident in their numerous artist residencies including those at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2018); Pioneer Works, Brooklyn (2018); Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2018–19); and Center for Book Arts, New York (2020–21). Their talent has been recognized through various fellowships including Movement Research Van Lier Artist of Color Fellowship (2017–18); Dance and Process, the Kitchen (2018); Dancing While Black, Angela’s Pulse (2018); and Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography Forward Dialogues (2018). They published their first book, Cotton Dreams, with Candor Arts in 2020. NIC Kay is a graduate of Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, with an MFA in sculpture.
FUNDING SUPPORT & CREDITS
The Kitchen’s programs are made possible in part with support from The Kitchen’s Board of Directors, The Kitchen Global Council, Leadership Fund, and the Director’s Council, as well as through generous support from The Amphion Foundation, Inc., Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Cowles Charitable Trust, The James and Judith K. Dimon Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Ford Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Marta Heflin Foundation, Lambent Foundation Fund, a fund of Tides Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, New Music USA, The Royal Norwegian Consulate General in New York, Ruth Foundation For The Arts, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Simons Foundation, and Teiger Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts; and in part by public funds from the Manhattan Borough President, the National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
The Kitchen acknowledges the generous support provided by the Collaborative Arts Network New York (CANNY). As a coalition of small to mid-sized multidisciplinary arts organizations, CANNY is committed to strengthening the infrastructure of arts nonprofits throughout New York. For more information about CANNY, please visit https://can-ny.org/.
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