Elia Arce is an artist that works in a variety of contemporary mediums, including video installation, performance art, experimental theater, writing, photo, video and sculptural performance. She has received awards from the J.Paul Getty Individual Artist Award, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Performance Network Creation Fund Award, the Durfee Foundation Individual Artist Award and in 1999 was nominated for the Herb Alpert/CalArts Award in Theater. She received a fellowship from New Voices, a Ford Foundation Initiative, to develop a social sculpture pilot project entitled: The Gulf Coast Art Corridor (from Houston to Alabama), and was one of the five winners in the United States to receive an American Masterpiece Award for her piece on identity entitled: First Woman on the Moon. As a guest scholar, she has taught theory and practice of performance at the University of Northridge, Los Angeles, CA, the California University in San Diego and at the University of Houston.
She has also taught numerous independent performance workshops in the United States comissioned by different artistic organizations. In 2010, she received the Fullbright Specialists Award to teach a performance class at the National University in Costa Rica. At the end of May of 2011, she presented a small sample of her work at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in San José, Costa Rica as part of a visit from the Hemispheric Institute of Performance from the University of New York. She has has been commissioned to create a series of photo performances for the International Photo Fest in Bamako, Mali during the month of October of 2011. Arce will be touring to Dallas, Washington D.C., Chicago, San José-California and Houston during 2012.

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