Press kit, yuniya edi kwon · Press kit, official use
yuniya edi kwon is a composer-improviser, multi-instrumentalist, and interdisciplinary performance maker based in New York City. Her practice connects sound, movement, and ceremony to explore transformation & transgression, ritual practice as a tool to queer ancestral lineage, and the use of mythology to connect, obscure, and reveal. She is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in Music Composition, 2025 Creative Capital Awardee, 2023-25 Arts Fellow at Princeton University, 2025 Nina von Maltzahn Fellow at The Watermill Center, 2024 Civitella Ranieri Fellow, 2024 Bessie Award Winner for Outstanding Sound Design/Music Composition, 2023 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Robert Rauschenberg Awardee in Music/Sound, 2016 United States Artists Ford Fellow, Van Lier Fellow & Resident Artist at Roulette Intermedium, Johnson Fellow at Americans for the Arts, Andrew W. Mellon Artist-in-Residence at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, Hermitage Fellow, and a recipient of the National Performance Network Creation Fund Award. Her work has been presented by Dia Art Foundation, Performa Biennial, New York Live Arts, Under The Radar Festival, National Sawdust, Roulette Intermedium, On The Boards, Asia Society, Poetry Project, Harlem Stage, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Monheim Triennale, and others. She was described as “absolutely stunning” (Wire Magazine), “strange and brilliantly captivating” (Jazz Pages Germany), and “a revelation ...
