mikki Yamashiro
mixed media/installation/performance
Upcoming
• Queer Threads, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA. Mixed Media (Group)
• The Mall, COOP Gallery, Nashville, TN. Mixed Media (Solo)
• Shoe Bones Gallery, Salem, MA. Mixed Media (Solo)
2023
• Plays on Foreplays, Trulee Hall, Rusha & Co, LA, CA. Performance
• Choke Hole: Portal, Zony Mash, New Orleans, LA. Performer
2022
• Estuaries, Lior Shamriz, Feature Film. Performance
• Choke Hole, Zony Mash, New Orleans, LA. Performance
• Choke Hole: Portal, Area 15, Las Vegas, NV. Performer
• Ladies’ Lair Lake, Trulee Hall, Los Angeles Nomadic Division, LA, CA. Performance
• Sorority: Thrust, Lyric-Hyperion, LA, CA. Performance
• Hey Chica!, The Elysian Theater, LA, CA. Performance
• Lizzie, The Paranoyds, Music Video. Assistant Director
• Ca Commence Par, Kate NV, Music Video. Assistant Director
• Jean of Arc, Gap Girls, Music Video. Assistant Director
2021
• the input of this machine is the power an output contains, Jacqueline Gork, Hammer Museum, LA, CA. Performance
• Remote Intimacies Issue 69 of The Archive release, Leslie Lohman Museum, NYC, NY. Performance
• Sorority: Consent, Virtual. Performance
• Mistress Violet, Violet Chachki, Music Video. Assistant Director
2020
• Remote Intimacies, Leslie Lohman Museum & ONE Archives at USC Libraries, Performance
• Normal Girl, OCHI Projects, LA, CA. Mixed Media with Machine Mclaughlin
• Choke Hole, New Orleans, LA. Performance
2019
• Visotor Welcome Center, LA, CA. Performance
• Killjoy’s Kastle, a lesbian haunted house, The Ice House, PA. Performance/Mixed Media
• Our Community Standards, Tom of Finland Foundation’s Festival, LA, CA. Performance
• Choke Hole, Super Chief Gallery, Queens, NY. Performance
• Herstorical Fictions, Leiminspace, LA, CA. Mixed Media and Performance (Solo)
• Sonora Stage, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Indio CA. Installation
• Future Ladies of Wrestling, Zebulon, LA, CA. Performance (Group)
2018
• Reading Room, Root Division, SF, CA. Performance/Mixed Media (Group)
• Sonora Stage, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Indio CA. Installation
• Future Ladies of Wrestling, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. video
• Future Ladies of Wrestling, Human Resources LA, CA. Performance
• Crochet line of home goods for Urban Outfitters
2017
• Mix Show, Leiminspace, LA, CA. Mixed Media (Group)
• Future Ladies of Wrestling, UCLA games festival, Hammer Museum, LA, CA. Performance
• Ultimate Multiversersal Warrior, Human Resources, LA, CA. Performance
• Butch Ballet, New Original Works Festival, Redcat Theater, LA, CA. Costume & Prop Design
• Sonora Stage, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Indio CA. Installation
• ssisterss, an experimental musical, 24th street theater, LA, CA. Costumes
2016
• Queer Biennial II, Industry Gallery, LA, CA. Performance
• Unnatural History, Pieter’s Space, LA, CA. Video/Performance
• We’ve Been Around, Television. Performance
• Sorority: Muscles, Lyric Hyperion Theater & Cafe, LA, CA. Performance
• Sorority: Witches, Lyric Hyperion Theater & Cafe, LA, CA. Performance
• Void of Course, Women’s Center for Creative Work, LA, CA. Performance
2015
• Killjoy’s Kastle, A Lesbian Haunted House. LA, CA. Performance/Mixed Media
• My Barbarian’s, Double Agency, LACMA, LA, CA. Performance
• A Wonderful Cloud, Eugene Kotlyarenko, Feature Film. Performance
• Lesbians, Thou Art Funny/Every Asian Woman From My Childhood, LA, CA. Mixed Media/Performance (solo)
2014
• Best Friends, Workhorse Journal. Performance/Video
• 144 Brent Lane, Theater, NY, NY. Props/Costumes/Sound
• Howard Ink, Theater, NY, NY. Performance
2013
• Strange Rain, Theater, NY, NY. Props/Costumes
• World of Darkness, Brooklyn, NY. Co-Director/Sculpture/Video/Performance
• The Firebird, a Ballez, NY, NY. Costume Designer
2009-2012
• Judy, NY, NY. Head Creative Director/Hostess. Interactive Installation/Sculpture/Sound/Video
2012
• Dlectricity, MOCA, Detroit, MI. Installation/Sculpture/Audio/Video/Performance • Dance Bitch Dance , Maureen Catbagan,Feature Film, NY. Set Design
2011
• Deep Aerobics with Miguel Gutierrez, NYC. Costume/Transformation Assistance
2010
• Queer Conscience, NYC. Performance
2009
• Hijinx featuring The Yes Men, NYC. Performance
• Brooklyn is Burning, NYC. Performance
• K-corealinc.k (section a), Ryan Trecartin, Feature Film. Performance
2008
• I Scream You Scream We All Scream For Ice Cream, Art Basel, Miami. With Raul de Nieves as Mikilandia Productions. Installation/Sculpture/Video/Performance
• De Feet of Joy, Giti Nourbakhsch Galerie, Berlin. With Raul de Nieves as Mikilandia Productions. Installation/Sculpture/Performance
2007
• Mix Festival, NYC. As Mikilandia Productions. Installation/Performance
Awards and Residencies
• 2016 Feminist Art Gallery Residency, Toronto, CA.
• 2011 awarded FUN Fellowship in the Social Practice of Nightlife by the Museum of Art and Design (MAD), NYC.
• 2008 Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL with Raul de Nieves