Gillian Walsh is an artist and performer from New York working with dance, time, and ways of being together. She works with dance as a thought form and mode of religious philosophical inquiry. Her current work addresses religious temporal aesthetics, material conditions of performance, and the dancer.
Works include: Lonely Lamb / Uan Uigneach. Clogher Strand, Dingle, Ireland, 2024., Friday Night Lights. Dia Chelsea, New York, NY, 2024, Wilderness. Danspace Project & New York City Players, New York, NY, 2023., May 2. OK #1 Gallery, Tulsa, OK, 2023., May. Gropius Bau, Berlin, 2022., LONELINESS. Beach Sessions Rockaway, Rockaway, Queens, 2020., Fame Notions. Performance Space New York, Watermill Center, New York, 2019., Moon Fate Sin. PERFORMA17 at Danspace Project, New York, 2017., Xgdziiiiiicdiirrwjfffffffff (pronounced grief). New York Live Arts, New York, 2016., Untitled (Steve Paxton and Bill T Jones). New York Live Arts, New York, 2016., Scenario: Script to Perform. The Kitchen, New York, 2015., Hasbro Procedures. The Kitchen, New York, 2014., Grinding and Equations. Abrons Arts Center, New York, 2013.
Walsh has been in residence at The Chinati Foundation, The Watermill Center, Crowley Theater Marfa, MoMa PS1, ISSUE Project Room, Mana Contemporary, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council on Governors Island, Stiftung Insel Hombroich, Impulstanz, Petronio Residency Center.