A Common Thread

Adriana Chavez (she/her/they/them) lives and works in Las Vegas, NV. They incorporate theatre, mask making, mask performance, collage, assemblage, movement, and sculptural installation into their art practice. She creates and embodies characters and is interested in non linear narratives that incorporate humor, the divine, the grotesque, and the absurd. They view all the work they do as a kind of poetic collage practice: with thought to rhythm, flow, spacing, pacing, emotion, and imagery. She is on a quest to find her joy, resilience, and identity through her art. Her work has been exhibited at the Bullfrog Biennale, the Barrick Museum of Art, the Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, The Charleston Heights Arts Center, the Winchester Dondero Cultural Center, Gallery Mesa, and La Matadora in Joshua Tree. In Las Vegas she has performed with The LAB Experimental Theatre Company, Vegas Theatre Company, and Majestic Repertory Theatre. Other select performance companies include Dell’arte Company (Blue Lake, CA), Elke Rindfleisch Dance (NYC), Jonah Bokaer (NYC), Homunculus Mask Theatre (NYC), NYC Clown Theater Festival, and Naked Empire Bouffon Company (San Francisco/Boston). From 2017-2019 they were invited to the Z Forge Artist Residency in Hudson, NY, for collaborative theatrical devising. She was artist in residence at the Barrick Museum from 2020 to 2021. She is currently working on a solo performance project which will debut in 2023. She is also on the team representing Las Vegas for the inaugural Live in America Festival hosted by The Momentary in Arkansas.