SALOMÉ EGAS

(she/her) is proudly Ecuadorian, an interdisciplinary artist, educator and bilingual children’s book author who is permanently questioning her identity through multiple mediums: dance, theater, film and textile arts. This year, Salomé will be working on her performance and workshop project “Mas que un Petalo” with the support of The Opportunity Agenda Narrative Innovator’s Lab and a grant from the 2023 NYFA’s Women’s Fund for Theater, FIlm and Music. In 2022, She was a Brooklyn Arts Council grantee, an American Immigrant Council Fellow, and a Resident Artist at MOtiVE Brooklyn. Salomé’s second bilingual book highlighting self-love in mixed-race characters  will launch in the coming months. 

Past artistic work includes: “Reflejo”, a solo piece supported by The Greenwich Arts Council (2021) and the Exponential Festival NYC (2020). “(Up)rooted”, a solo piece commissioned by Skidmore College’s Tang Museum (2019). Salomé performed “Reflejo” at the closing reception of The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB 2020), and was mentioned in Ekstrand’s essay “Considering Immigrant Women as Vessels of Knowledge, Power and Intergenerational Resilience.”  Salomé was selected for 2019-20 Creative Capital’s Workshop for Latinx artists and was a fellow at the 2018 EmergeNYC, Hemispheric Institute’s Program for Political Performance. As a solo performer and the founder of  FUN Theater Collective (Fierce, Untamed Niñes), she incorporates radical self-love and indigenization as tools to empower the ancestral knowledge carried by immigrant and femme bodies of color. 

Salomé’s work has been presented at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Brooklyn Arts Council, Downtown Brooklyn, Abrons Arts Center, LaMama, Dixon Place, NYTW, Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, etc. Internationally, she’s performed in several venues and festivals across Ecuador, Venezuela, Cuba, Argentina and Canada. She graduated from Skidmore College (2014), and obtained a Master’s in International Education, Mythologies and Performance from NYU Gallatin (2018). 

www.salomeegas.com
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Photo: Camila Javier