Artist Name: Ayanna Dozier
Residency Dates: April – June 2025
Born: 1990
Hometown: Riverside, California
Lives & Works: Brooklyn, NY
URL: https://dozierayanna.com | Instagram @dozieraynna
Gallery: Microscope Gallery
Education:
2020 – Ph.D. Art History & Communication Studies, Graduate Option in Gender & Women Studies Dissertation: Mnemonic Aberrations: Black Feminisms and the Counter-Poetics of Rhythm in Experimental Short films (1968-1998) McGill University, Montréal, QC
2014 – M.A. Media Culture & Communication New York University, New York, NY
2012 – B.A. Art History & French Literature & Film Chapman University, Orange, CA
Bio/Statement:
Ayanna Dozier is one of the selected artists for the 2025 NYC-Based Artist Residency Program.
Ayanna Dozier is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker-artist and writer working with performance, experimental film, installation, printmaking, and analog photography. Her work examines how transactional intimacy, such as sex work, redistributes care from the private sector into public and social politics of relations. She is the author of Janet Jackson’s The Velvet Rope (2020) and is currently working on a manuscript titled The Pull-to-Trigger: Women Experimental Film and Video on the Taboo during the Sex Wars.
Dozier has exhibited at institutions including BRIC (Brooklyn, NY), Microscope Gallery (New York, NY), the Block Museum (Chicago, IL), the Gantt Center (Charlotte, NC), MoCA Arlington (Arlington, VA), Hauser & Wirth (Los Angeles, CA), PLATFORM Centre (Winnipeg, MB), and The Shed (New York, NY). She has participated in residencies such as the 2022 Wave Hill Winter Workspace (Bronx, NY), the 2018-2019 Helena Rubinstein Fellowship in Critical Studies at the Whitney Independent Studies Program, and the 2024 Penumbra Workspace Residency. Her films are held in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. She is an assistant professor in Film Studies in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
The 2025 NYC-Based Artist Residency Program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
