Lani Asunción

Lani Asunción is a Boston based artist and a member of the BCA Studio Resident Program at Boston Center for the Arts (2022-25). They have performed live at Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Little Berlin in Philadelphia, Somerville Museum, and the Aurora Picture Show in Houston, TX. Asunción has been awarded artist residencies at the Studios at MASS MoCA with Assets for Artists, Vermont Studio Center, Santa Fe Art Institute, I-Park, Elsewhere Living Museum, The Wedding Cake House, Queer.Archive.Work, Caldera Arts Center, and BigCi in Australia. Asunción is an awardee of the Live Arts Boston Grant (2020), City of Boston's Transformative Public Art grant (2020), Dame Joan Sutherland Fund from the Australian American Association (2017), and Kala Fellowship Award (2023) from Kala Art Institute. Their project Revolutionary AYAT was awarded the Public Art for Spatial Justice Grant (2022) from New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA). They received their MFA (2011) from the UConn School of Fine Arts with a focus in video and performance. 

Headshot by Sasha Pedro