NISA OJALVO
Collections //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Ojalvo’s work is collected by the Tate Modern Museum Archive (London), Institute of Contemporary Art
ICA Boston, Grey Art Gallery, Spencer Museum of Art, More Art, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Asian Art Archive
Hong Kong, Performa Biennial & is in various individual collections.
Exhibitions //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2025 Viaggio nella storia del Culto di San Michele, Video Installation, Cathedral of San Michele, Padula, Campania, Italy
2025 Stiwdio Maelor, "Recently Framed", Corris, Wales UK
2024 Casa Padula, "Padula...oh Padula" Video Installation & Open Studio, May/June, Campania, Italy
2024 Stiwdio Maelor, "One Place, One Story" Ten Year Anniversary Show, Corris, Wales UK
2023 Art Center Padula, "Processione" Video Loop & Open Studio, September/October, Campania, Italy
2023 Casa Padula, "First Impressions" Video Loop, April/May, Campania, Italy
2022 Ffenest Y Piazza Art Centre, "900 Baskets" in collaboration with Veronica Calarco, University of Aberystwyth, Wales UK
2022 Plas Bodfa, "Bodfa Continuum: The Possibilities of Time", with artist talk, Anglesey, Wales UK
2022 Stiwdio Maelor, "I gam o gam", in collaboration with Veronica Calarco, Corris, Wales UK
2021 Galleri 2, "Borrowed Landscape", kelly|marhaug|ojalvo Solo Show, Stamsund, Lofoten Islands, Norway
2021 Stuttgarter Filmwinter 2021, "Piss Take", kelly|marhaug|ojalvo, Stuttgart, Germany
2020 "Unus Multorum: The Possibilities of a House", with artist talk, Plas Bodfa, Anglesey, Wales
2019 "Sui Generis: The Possibilities of a House", Plas Bodfa, collaboration with Veronica Calarco, Anglesey, Wales
2018 Kunstgarasjen, "Borrowed Landscape", collaboration of artist collective kelly|marhaug|ojalvo, Bergen, Norway
2016 ChangJiang Contemporary Art Museum, “Parabiosis International Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Chongqing, China
2016 Objectifs, Lower Gallery, “Two-Way Mirror”, Singapore
2016 Kunsthalle Osnabruck, "Ernesto Pujol Systems of Weight", Osnabruck, Germany
2015 Bushwick Open Studios, New York, USA
2015 Lilac Steamship Preservation Project, Manhattan, New York, USA
2015 Videonale 2015 “The Lying on the Floor, Abandoned to Lie” Exhibition, Bonn, Germany
2014 NOoSPHERE Arts “Second Skin”, Joint Show with Rita Marhaug (Norway), New York, USA
2014 NOoSPHERE Arts Anniversary Show, New York, USA
2010 Gallery 53, “This is Action Art”, Guangzhou Live 010, Guangzhou, China
2010 Dumbo Arts Center Exhibition, Brooklyn, USA
2009 Chelsea Art Museum Fall Benefit, New York, USA
2009 Dumbo Arts Center “I Heart Art” Benefit, Brooklyn, USA
2007 Gracie Square Art Show, Solo Exhibition, New York, USA
2006 Keane University Art Gallery, “East Transplanted West”, New Jersey, USA
2005 Asian American Arts Center, “Eviction Blues”, New York, USA
Artist Residencies & Awards ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2026 Buinho (an MIT FabLab) Artist Residency (March/April), Alentejo, Portugal
2025 Millay Arts, Core Artist Residency (fully-funded) (July), Austerlitz, NY, USA
2025 VCCA, Visual Artist Residency, Mt. San Angelo, VA, USA (June)
2024 Art Center Padula AiR (May/June), Campania, Italy
2023 Art Center Padula AiR (April/May, September/October), Campania, Italy
2018 Stiwdio Maelor, Solo Artist Residency, Corris, Wales, UK
2016 Stiwdio Maelor, Group Residency for KMO art collective, Wales, UK
2014 Paul A. Welter award for Excellence in Trademark Law including
$5000 US Honorarium for Empower The Children Nonprofit of Kolkatta, India
2005 Flor de Maga Award, Puerto Rican Bar Association, USA
Publications /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2021 Blind Dates with the History of Mankind, Performances 1980-2013, De Zwaluw Publishers, The Hague
2021 PAB Nyhetsbrev Vol 1, Performance Art Bergen PAB Album #1-2021, Bergen, Norway
2021 Canadian Theater Review, Vol 185, Performing Paces, Sandrine Schaefer's Embodied Know-How, Ontario, Canada
2019 Plas Bodfa, Sui Generis: The Possibilities of a House, collaboration with Veronica Calarco, Anglesey, Wales
2018 Borrowed Landscape Limited Edition Handmade Boxed Set, kelly|marhaug|ojalvo for Kunstgarasjen, Norway
2017 PABlish, Liquid Body, Solid Mind, Rita Marhaug, Norway
2016 Objectifs Lower Gallery, Two-Way Mirror, Singapore
2016 ExBerliner Magazine, All the Lonely Expats, Berlin, Germany
2016 The Culture Trip, A Dance, A Chat and a Hug...with a Gorilla, Berlin, Germany
2015 Boston Globe, ICA Foster Prize Show Emphasizes Flux, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2015 Black Kit Performance Archive, Cologne, Germany
2015 Between Sea & Sky IV DVD and Art Book, Herdla, Askøy, Norway
2015 Art Asia Pacific, Reports One on One, Lee Wen on Jason Lim, Hong Kong, China
2014 Dimanche Rouge, Focus on Norway, “Rita Marhaug ‘23 & 48’, ‘Second Skin’”, France
2014 KunstForum, Changes for Legislation, Now!, Interview, Norway
2013 Arts Culture Beat, Gift of Silence - Ernesto Pujol’s 'Time After Us', New York, USA
2011 Performa ’09 Back to Futurism by RoseLee Goldberg, New York, USA
2011 Between Sea & Sky III DVD, Herdla, Askøy, Norway
2011 Empower the Children, One World Publications, Our Global Village, Kolkatta, India
2010 New York Times, The Art of Craftmanship Revisited, New York, USA
2009 Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Artist’s Handbook, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2009 Singing Dragon Publications, Seeking the Spirit of the Book of Change, London, UK
2008 Chinese Arts Centre, Vital – International Live Artists of Chinese Descent, Manchester, UK
2007 Guanshanyue Art Museum, Liberation of Ink Painting Catalogue, Guangzhou, China
2006 Keane University Art Gallery, East Transplanted West Catalogue, New Jersey, USA
2006 Asian American Arts Center, Eviction Blues Catalogue, New York, USA
Performance Art Festivals /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2021 Performa ’21 Biennial, New York, USA
2019 Ernesto Pujol “The Listeners”, River to River Festival, LMCC, New York, USA
2019 Performa ’19 Biennial, New York, USA
2017 Performa ’17 Biennial, New York, USA
2015 Performa ’15 Biennial, New York, USA
2015 Ernesto Pujol “9-5” durational performance, Brookfield Arts, New York, USA
2015 PAB Open Festival, Performance Art Bergen, Bergen, Norway
2015 Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston, Foster Prize to Sandrine Schaefer, Boston, USA
2015 Time Body Space Objects, Georges Island, Boston, USA
2014 Venice International Performance Art Week, Venice, Italy
2014 aktB Between Sea & Sky IV Triennial, Herdla, Askøy, Norway
2014 Focus on Norway, Dimanche Rouge, Paris, France
2014 Fountain Art Fair, New York, USA
2014 Special Effects Festival, Molly Haslund “Circles – Drawing Upon the Universe”, New York, USA
2013 Lånt Landskap; kelly|marhaug|ojalvo, Arctic Circle Road Trip, Norway
2013 Performa ’13 Biennial, New York, USA
2013 Grey Art Gallery, Radical Presence, New York, USA
2013 FIAF Crossing the Line Festival, Ernesto Pujol, “Time After Us”, New York, USA
2012 Beijing Live 2012: Love and Pain (Co-Curator), Beijing, China
2012 Open International Performance Art Festival, Beijing China
2012 Tate Modern, “The Tanks: Art in Action, Retracing Black, Aldo Tambellini”, London, UK
2011 Performa ’11 Biennial, New York, USA
2011 aktB Between Sea & Sky III Triennial, Herdla, Askøy, Norway
2010 Live Art 010, Sete, France Performa ’09 Biennial, New York, USA
2009 FIAF Crossing the Line Festival, Steven Cohen, “Knock 'Em Dead”, New York, USA
2009 Performa ’09 Biennial, New York, USA
2008 Up-On Live Art Festival, Chengdu, China
2008 Khoj International Art Festival, New Delhi, India
2007 Louisiana Contemporary Museum of Art – Chinese Live Arts Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
2007 Vital ’07, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester and Liverpool, UK
2007 Performa ’07 Biennial, New York, USA
2006 Vital ’06, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK
2005 “The Wall” Exhibit and Live Art Festival, Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York, USA
Education ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2016-2020 ICP International Center of Photography, New York, NY
1995 GW National Law Center, Washington, DC 1992-95, Juris Doctor
1990 Keio University, Tokyo Japan, Scholarship Exchange Program
1989 Dartmouth College, Hanover NH 1985-1989, BA East Asian Languages
Yale University, Visiting Student 1988
Beijing National University, Exchange Program 1987
Languages //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, French Fluency; some proficiency in Italian/Norwegian/Hindi/Kannada/Khmer/Portuguese/Finnish
Collections //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Ojalvo’s work is collected by the Tate Modern Museum Archive (London), Institute of Contemporary Art
ICA Boston, Grey Art Gallery, Spencer Museum of Art, More Art, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Asian Art Archive
Hong Kong, Performa Biennial & is in various individual collections.
Exhibitions //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2025 Viaggio nella storia del Culto di San Michele, Video Installation, Cathedral of San Michele, Padula, Campania, Italy
2025 Stiwdio Maelor, "Recently Framed", Corris, Wales UK
2024 Casa Padula, "Padula...oh Padula" Video Installation & Open Studio, May/June, Campania, Italy
2024 Stiwdio Maelor, "One Place, One Story" Ten Year Anniversary Show, Corris, Wales UK
2023 Art Center Padula, "Processione" Video Loop & Open Studio, September/October, Campania, Italy
2023 Casa Padula, "First Impressions" Video Loop, April/May, Campania, Italy
2022 Ffenest Y Piazza Art Centre, "900 Baskets" in collaboration with Veronica Calarco, University of Aberystwyth, Wales UK
2022 Plas Bodfa, "Bodfa Continuum: The Possibilities of Time", with artist talk, Anglesey, Wales UK
2022 Stiwdio Maelor, "I gam o gam", in collaboration with Veronica Calarco, Corris, Wales UK
2021 Galleri 2, "Borrowed Landscape", kelly|marhaug|ojalvo Solo Show, Stamsund, Lofoten Islands, Norway
2021 Stuttgarter Filmwinter 2021, "Piss Take", kelly|marhaug|ojalvo, Stuttgart, Germany
2020 "Unus Multorum: The Possibilities of a House", with artist talk, Plas Bodfa, Anglesey, Wales
2019 "Sui Generis: The Possibilities of a House", Plas Bodfa, collaboration with Veronica Calarco, Anglesey, Wales
2018 Kunstgarasjen, "Borrowed Landscape", collaboration of artist collective kelly|marhaug|ojalvo, Bergen, Norway
2016 ChangJiang Contemporary Art Museum, “Parabiosis International Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Chongqing, China
2016 Objectifs, Lower Gallery, “Two-Way Mirror”, Singapore
2016 Kunsthalle Osnabruck, "Ernesto Pujol Systems of Weight", Osnabruck, Germany
2015 Bushwick Open Studios, New York, USA
2015 Lilac Steamship Preservation Project, Manhattan, New York, USA
2015 Videonale 2015 “The Lying on the Floor, Abandoned to Lie” Exhibition, Bonn, Germany
2014 NOoSPHERE Arts “Second Skin”, Joint Show with Rita Marhaug (Norway), New York, USA
2014 NOoSPHERE Arts Anniversary Show, New York, USA
2010 Gallery 53, “This is Action Art”, Guangzhou Live 010, Guangzhou, China
2010 Dumbo Arts Center Exhibition, Brooklyn, USA
2009 Chelsea Art Museum Fall Benefit, New York, USA
2009 Dumbo Arts Center “I Heart Art” Benefit, Brooklyn, USA
2007 Gracie Square Art Show, Solo Exhibition, New York, USA
2006 Keane University Art Gallery, “East Transplanted West”, New Jersey, USA
2005 Asian American Arts Center, “Eviction Blues”, New York, USA
Artist Residencies & Awards ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2026 Buinho (an MIT FabLab) Artist Residency (March/April), Alentejo, Portugal
2025 Millay Arts, Core Artist Residency (fully-funded) (July), Austerlitz, NY, USA
2025 VCCA, Visual Artist Residency, Mt. San Angelo, VA, USA (June)
2024 Art Center Padula AiR (May/June), Campania, Italy
2023 Art Center Padula AiR (April/May, September/October), Campania, Italy
2018 Stiwdio Maelor, Solo Artist Residency, Corris, Wales, UK
2016 Stiwdio Maelor, Group Residency for KMO art collective, Wales, UK
2014 Paul A. Welter award for Excellence in Trademark Law including
$5000 US Honorarium for Empower The Children Nonprofit of Kolkatta, India
2005 Flor de Maga Award, Puerto Rican Bar Association, USA
Publications /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2021 Blind Dates with the History of Mankind, Performances 1980-2013, De Zwaluw Publishers, The Hague
2021 PAB Nyhetsbrev Vol 1, Performance Art Bergen PAB Album #1-2021, Bergen, Norway
2021 Canadian Theater Review, Vol 185, Performing Paces, Sandrine Schaefer's Embodied Know-How, Ontario, Canada
2019 Plas Bodfa, Sui Generis: The Possibilities of a House, collaboration with Veronica Calarco, Anglesey, Wales
2018 Borrowed Landscape Limited Edition Handmade Boxed Set, kelly|marhaug|ojalvo for Kunstgarasjen, Norway
2017 PABlish, Liquid Body, Solid Mind, Rita Marhaug, Norway
2016 Objectifs Lower Gallery, Two-Way Mirror, Singapore
2016 ExBerliner Magazine, All the Lonely Expats, Berlin, Germany
2016 The Culture Trip, A Dance, A Chat and a Hug...with a Gorilla, Berlin, Germany
2015 Boston Globe, ICA Foster Prize Show Emphasizes Flux, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2015 Black Kit Performance Archive, Cologne, Germany
2015 Between Sea & Sky IV DVD and Art Book, Herdla, Askøy, Norway
2015 Art Asia Pacific, Reports One on One, Lee Wen on Jason Lim, Hong Kong, China
2014 Dimanche Rouge, Focus on Norway, “Rita Marhaug ‘23 & 48’, ‘Second Skin’”, France
2014 KunstForum, Changes for Legislation, Now!, Interview, Norway
2013 Arts Culture Beat, Gift of Silence - Ernesto Pujol’s 'Time After Us', New York, USA
2011 Performa ’09 Back to Futurism by RoseLee Goldberg, New York, USA
2011 Between Sea & Sky III DVD, Herdla, Askøy, Norway
2011 Empower the Children, One World Publications, Our Global Village, Kolkatta, India
2010 New York Times, The Art of Craftmanship Revisited, New York, USA
2009 Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Artist’s Handbook, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2009 Singing Dragon Publications, Seeking the Spirit of the Book of Change, London, UK
2008 Chinese Arts Centre, Vital – International Live Artists of Chinese Descent, Manchester, UK
2007 Guanshanyue Art Museum, Liberation of Ink Painting Catalogue, Guangzhou, China
2006 Keane University Art Gallery, East Transplanted West Catalogue, New Jersey, USA
2006 Asian American Arts Center, Eviction Blues Catalogue, New York, USA
Performance Art Festivals /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2021 Performa ’21 Biennial, New York, USA
2019 Ernesto Pujol “The Listeners”, River to River Festival, LMCC, New York, USA
2019 Performa ’19 Biennial, New York, USA
2017 Performa ’17 Biennial, New York, USA
2015 Performa ’15 Biennial, New York, USA
2015 Ernesto Pujol “9-5” durational performance, Brookfield Arts, New York, USA
2015 PAB Open Festival, Performance Art Bergen, Bergen, Norway
2015 Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston, Foster Prize to Sandrine Schaefer, Boston, USA
2015 Time Body Space Objects, Georges Island, Boston, USA
2014 Venice International Performance Art Week, Venice, Italy
2014 aktB Between Sea & Sky IV Triennial, Herdla, Askøy, Norway
2014 Focus on Norway, Dimanche Rouge, Paris, France
2014 Fountain Art Fair, New York, USA
2014 Special Effects Festival, Molly Haslund “Circles – Drawing Upon the Universe”, New York, USA
2013 Lånt Landskap; kelly|marhaug|ojalvo, Arctic Circle Road Trip, Norway
2013 Performa ’13 Biennial, New York, USA
2013 Grey Art Gallery, Radical Presence, New York, USA
2013 FIAF Crossing the Line Festival, Ernesto Pujol, “Time After Us”, New York, USA
2012 Beijing Live 2012: Love and Pain (Co-Curator), Beijing, China
2012 Open International Performance Art Festival, Beijing China
2012 Tate Modern, “The Tanks: Art in Action, Retracing Black, Aldo Tambellini”, London, UK
2011 Performa ’11 Biennial, New York, USA
2011 aktB Between Sea & Sky III Triennial, Herdla, Askøy, Norway
2010 Live Art 010, Sete, France Performa ’09 Biennial, New York, USA
2009 FIAF Crossing the Line Festival, Steven Cohen, “Knock 'Em Dead”, New York, USA
2009 Performa ’09 Biennial, New York, USA
2008 Up-On Live Art Festival, Chengdu, China
2008 Khoj International Art Festival, New Delhi, India
2007 Louisiana Contemporary Museum of Art – Chinese Live Arts Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
2007 Vital ’07, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester and Liverpool, UK
2007 Performa ’07 Biennial, New York, USA
2006 Vital ’06, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK
2005 “The Wall” Exhibit and Live Art Festival, Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York, USA
Education ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2016-2020 ICP International Center of Photography, New York, NY
1995 GW National Law Center, Washington, DC 1992-95, Juris Doctor
1990 Keio University, Tokyo Japan, Scholarship Exchange Program
1989 Dartmouth College, Hanover NH 1985-1989, BA East Asian Languages
Yale University, Visiting Student 1988
Beijing National University, Exchange Program 1987
Languages //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, French Fluency; some proficiency in Italian/Norwegian/Hindi/Kannada/Khmer/Portuguese/Finnish