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Judy Dunaway is internationally known for her numerous works for latex balloons as sound producers, including sculptural sonic performances, sound installations, interactive pieces and acousmatic works. Since 1990 she has created over forty works for balloons as sound conduits and has also made this her main instrument for improvisation.

Industry Experience

Awards and Honors

• 2024 – Foundation for Contemporary Arts Creative Research Grant
• 2023 – Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant (for participation in the group exhibition An AIDS Walkthrough at Village in Berlin, Germany)
• 2022 – iii Instrument Inventors Artist-in-Residence (Hague, Netherlands)
• 2022 – Vasulka Kitchen Visiting Artist/Researcher (Brno, Czech)
• 2022 – Errant Sound Artist-in-Residence (Berlin, Germany)
• 2017 – Harvestworks (NYC), Artist-in-Residence
• 2014 – EMS Elektronmusikstudion, Artist Residency, Stockholm, Sweden
• 2014 – Logos Foundation, Artist Residency, Gent, Belgium
• 2006 – New York State Music Fund
• 2004 – Aaron Copland Fund, Recording Program
• 2000 – American Composers Forum, Composers Commissioning Fund
• 2000-2001 – Visiting Artist/Researcher Residency, Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany

Recent Exhibitions and Performances

• 2024 – Harvestworks “New Waves in Art and Tech,” Governors Island, NYC
  Center for New Music, Window Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  Soup & Sound (Continuum Culture and Arts), Brooklyn, NYC
  Downtown Music Gallery, NY, NY
  Wesleyan University, NuMusWes24, Middletown, CT
• 2023 – “An AIDS Walkthrough” Exhibition at Village, Berlin (sponsored by Instinct.Berlin)
  Performance Space 122 (NYC)
  ​Roulette (NYC)
• 2022 – Dissolve Music @ MIT (Cambridge, MA)
  Akouphene Festival (Geneva, Switzerland)
  Kulturhaus Helferei (Zurich, Switzerland)
  Universitaet der Kuenst Berlin
  Errant Sound Galerie (Berlin, Germany)
  Vasulka Kitchen (Brno, Czech)
  RIB Gallery (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
  iii Instrument Inventors (Hague, Netherlands)
  Museum Wiesbaden (Germany)
  Non-Event (Boston)
  Earfest at Stony Brook University
• 2020 – Chashama (NYC) (sponsored by Ensemble Ipse)
• 2019 – New England Conservatory (Boston)
  Columbia University
  Museum of Modern Art (NYC)
  Expo’74 at Mass MoCA
• 2018 – Experimental Intermedia (NYC)
  Non-Event at School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)
• 2017 – Harvestworks (NYC)
  ​Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) (Spain)
  New Genres Arts Festival (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
  Opensound (Boston)

Recent Publications

• 2020 – Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture, Vol. 1, Issue 1 (University of California Press: April 2020), “The Forgotten 1979 MoMA Sound Art Exhibition.”
• 2012 – Leonardo Music Journal, Vol. 22 (MIT Press: Nov. 2012), “What You Cannot Hear.”

Connect: judydunaway.com