JB Firestone
new commissions, queer practice, institutional critique

Recent Exhibitions
2022-2025
  1. yachachiqniykunapaq
  2. (A self-organized repatriation)
  3. The Christmas Show
  4. (A holiday altar, a crime scene)
  5. Nothing Under Heaven
  6. (BDSM, god, and Andy Warhol)
  7. Clocking In, Clocking Out
  8. (erotics, e-bikes, ecstatics)
  9. The Backend
    (laws, logic, a lack thereof)
  10. Dancing on Axes and Spears
    (violence and veneration)
  11. Nesting
  12. (worldbuilding and wonder)
  13. Case Studies
  14. (a series of solo shows)

Writing 
2019-2025
  1. Baron Books

Performances
2019-2025
  1. Horizon Lies
  2. To Move Is To Remember

Select Exhibitions
2014 - 2021

  1. Earth In Peril
  2. (queer visions of the American West)
  3. Eco-Urgency
  4. (its now or never)
 
Mark


Prelude, NYC
Curator, Isaac Pool: Untitled Mood Lighting (2021)

Wave Hill, NYC
Provides support for all aspects of indoor and outdoor performances at a 28 acre estate and public garden.

Co-Producer, Trisha Brown: In Plain Sight (2021)
Production Assistant, Overlook Quartet (2021)
Production Assistant, String Orchestra of Brooklyn (2021)
Production Assistant, Wave Hill Presents: Brandee Younger (2021)
Production Assistant, Wave Hill Presents: Kamala Sankaram (2021)
Production Assistant, On Site Opera: Turn of The Screw (2019)

Open Call Assistant at The Shed, NYC
Managed and supported all aspects of performance and live event production for emerging artist commissions including outdoor and indoor performances, concerts, opera, and experimental theater. 

Featured artists included Richard Kennedy, Ebony Golden, nicHi Douglas, Richard Sears, and Justin Allen among others.