I LIVE IN A HIGHLY EXCITED STATE OF OVERSIMULATION.
Badly Licked Bear is or has been an arts administrator, community leader, writer, curator, student, artist, and educator. Their artistic work stands in two circles – one a performance practice of embodied discipline, BDSM, and Looney Tunes and the other a subject-making practice concerned with survival in an age of (INSERT CRISIS HERE).
Their work has been exhibited or performed at venues including: MOCA, Hammer Museum, REDCAT, Human Resources Los Angeles, Machine Project, Cerritos College, The Wignall Museum, as well as less-institutional locales, like an illegal bar in the Pacific Ocean during the inaugural Current Triennial. Their work is in the library collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Otis College of Art and Design.
Badly Licked Bear is also the Super Logistics Auntie / Navajo Nation Van Driver for the Auntie Sewing Squad, an 800 member organization that provided mutual aid primarily in the form of manufacturing and distributing 400,000 handmade masks during the primary phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. They are also a regular guest contributor to the Museum of Home Video.
As an educator, they teach undergraduate courses ranging from game design/theory to professional practice, with a focus on transforming students into powerful observers and thoughtful storytellers. In their prior career, they were a curator with a focus on nurturing emerging artists, commissioning new works, and social practice projects.