1. Damali ayo was born on February 26,1972 and is an American conceptual artist, performance artist, and author.
19 Facts About Damali ayo
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Damali ayo is of African-American, English, Italian, and Native American descent.
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Damali ayo's art used a range of mediums, including assemblage, collage, installation, audio, video, photography, new genres, writing, speaking, and performance.
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Damali ayo was born Damali Ayo Patterson, February 26,1972 in Washington, DC where she attended Sidwell Friends School from kindergarten through high school.
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Damali ayo's work displayed influences from artists such as Adrian Piper, Yoko Ono, On Kawara, and William Pope.
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Damali ayo used a wide range of media and her work was frequently interactive.
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Damali ayo's work utilized assemblage, collage, photography, installation, audio, video, new genres, writing, speaking, and performance.
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Damali ayo's 2000 show The Little Black Dress Project and accompanying performance Take it Off explored the notion of the reality of women's lives juxtaposed with the wardrobe of fashion conformity.
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Damali ayo created a lecture-performance to spread the solutions to communities nationwide.
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Damali ayo performed the piece in Portland, Chicago, Boston, and New York.
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In 2006 Damali ayo created an online kit that anyone could download and do the performance in their own community.
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Damali ayo served as the resident set designer winning Drammy Awards for her designs for David Mamet's The Woods and Mac Wellman's The Bad Infinity.
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Damali ayo served as assistant director on three plays, and acted in one play in the role of Strophe in Phaedra's Love by Sarah Kane.
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Damali ayo contributed a radio essay to the 2008 reboot of the historic This I Believe Series.
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The July 2008 issue of Redbook magazine reported that after a string of terrible on-line dates, Damali ayo redirected her energies to "eco fitting" her house.
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Damali ayo closed in November 2008 during the economic downturn.
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Damali ayo discussed the process of being a conceptual artist and engaging social issues through her lecture, You Have to Mess with People But Don't Let them Mess with You.
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Damali ayo taught workshops on how to make conceptual art to people of all ages.
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In 2016, Damali ayo completed her speaking work and subsequently removed the related website.