Kyana Brindle is an interdisciplinary performing artist from New York City. She has worked collaboratively and as a solo artist, premiering her first one-woman show ‘Between Spaces’ at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. She has been a member of various artist collectives, and has performed for over twenty years as a poet, vocalist, and theater actor in New York, Belize, Beijing, and beyond. She has used creative engagement and facilitation as tools for social impact, leading workshops with youth and adults in educational and community spaces. Kyana is also Co-Founder and Director of Artist Engagement for Nfinit Foundation Arts. Her work explores the intersections of art and spirituality, and the body as location for healing, transformation, and liberation.

Return to the Waters
FiveMyles, NYC 2024

“Return to the Waters is a ritual performance by interdisciplinary performing artist Kyana Brindle. Drawing from various archetypes of the Tower card in the tarot, as well as her own ancestral and divination practice, this piece explores the Tower as a guide for healing through words, sound, and altar installation.”

Tipped, And Poured Out
2020
A short video for the “A Few Minutes With…” series by FiveMyles.
”To stay in touch during these confined times, our artists film short snippets of their current lives and share their work-in-progress.”

Up/Root
FiveMyles, NYC 2019

“Up/Root is a ritual performance which explores finding “home” amid displacement and loss through the daily practices that create grounding and connection. It is an invitation into my intimate space of healing and reflection. With this work, I explore the questions which engage the complexity of my experience as a black woman in the world, and the interconnectivity of our pain and joy. Who are we when no one is looking? What private spaces do we create to bring us into contact with our grief and loss, the expansion and contraction of our day-to-day experiences? What does it mean to be at home in our bodies and the places we inhabit? How do we come home to ourselves?”

Find You
BANG TEMPLE  no. 2 | scratch(es) at Brooklyn Art Store, NYC 2017
A ritual performance on death, release and regeneration.

I Am The Lovers
Image Factory Art Foundation, Belize 2017
A ritual and meditation through the Lovers card of the tarot.

I Am The Lovers at Introversion.Extroversion.Performance
Wildfire art space, Belize 2017

Legacy/Love
Image Factory Art Foundation, Belize 2016
A moving meditation and ritual inspired by Egun, Yemaya and Osun.

Naked Layers
2011-2014
Developed with Novel Idea of Nfinit Foundation Arts, Naked Layers is a multimedia film project exploring vulnerability, body image, identity, and representations of black women. Naked Layers was exhibited in Looking To The Self, Looking Into Others: An Intersectional Conversation hosted by Garner Arts Center and ArtShape Mammoth at the Garner Arts Festival in New York, 2017. It was also screened at Black Brown + Digital at Mist Harlem in 2015.

Contact

kyana[at]kyanabrindle[dot]org