Nathaniel Sullivan is a creative non-fiction artist, based in New York City. He makes video and sound collages, multimedia lecture performances and site-specific drifts that combine facts with speculative ideas in order to probe systems of control and to test the limits of reason.
His work has been presented internationally across Europe and the Americas, including Documenta 14 (Kassel), FilmWinter (Stuttgart), Code+ Festival (Buenos Aires), Vox Populi (Philadelphia), Flux Factory and Smack Mellon (NYC).
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Fugue State, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA, September 2025, Hand of God
Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany, January 2023, Davosboros
48hr Neukolin, Berlin, Germany, June 2022, Davosboros
Yeh Art Gallery, Queens, NY, September - November 2018, Before The Nation Went Bankrupt
Debt+ , Flux Factory, Queens, NY. June 2016, Before The Nation Went Bankrupt
‘13’ Nuit Blanche, Propeller Center for the Arts, Toronto, Ontario, November 2013, Thirteen
SELECTED SCREENINGS
Invisible Load, Istanbul, Turkey, October 25, 2025, Hand of God, Ghosts of Empire
Springs Projects, Brooklyn, NY, September 3, 2025, BTNWB: Letter to Lover #1
Bronx Frame, Andrew Freedman Home / Bronx Arts Council, Bronx, NY, August 2025, Hand of God
VIII nodoCARACASl Video Festival, Raise, Caracas Venezuela, November 18-20, 2022, Davosboros
Ojo De Agua Film Festival, Guanajuato, Mexico, December 20, 2020, BTNWB: Letter to William Winters
The VI Festival de Video nodoCCS, Kristiansand, Norway, November 14-22, 2020, Why Financiers Love Abstract Art
Barcelona Short Film & Video Festival, Barcelona, Spain, October 23-30, 2020, BTNWB: Letter to William Winters
Under the Subway Video Festival, New York, NY, September 12, 2020, I Work In Finance: Crockett’s Theme
Code+ Festival 2018, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 16-17, 2018, BTNWB: Letter to William Winters
Digital BigScreen Trbovje, Solvenia, September 14-16 2017, BTNWB: Letter To Lover #2
Documenta 14, Kassel, Germany, July 2017, BTNWB: Letter to William Winters
Economia, Eindhoven, NL, April 28-30, 2017, Before The Nation Went Bankrupt
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
IIPPE, September 6-8, 2023, Madrid, Spain, A Neoliberal Zion
PAUSA, Bronx River Arts Center, April 29, 2022, A Grim Reminder of What Came Before and Very Well May Continue
User Error, Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Arizona, March 2, 2018, Before The Nation Went Bankrupt
Wicket Leeks, Flux Factory, Queens, NY June 25, 2019, A View From Above: The Pre Game Meal
Fail Safe, Glitterbox Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA, November 17, 2019, Amnelysia
Itinerant Festival, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY, May 24, 2019, Amnelysia
Dividing Zero, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA. December 16, 2016, Before The Nation Went Bankrupt
San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA, March 27, 2015, A View From Above
Dixon Place, New York, NY January 7, 2015, Good Morning To My Inbox, To My Penis, To My Impending Demise
Prelude Festival, New York, NY. October 10, 2014, Before The Nation Went Bankrupt
American Medium, Brooklyn, NY, May 27, 2014, Good Morning to my inbox, my Penis and to My Impending Demise
Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival, Brooklyn NY July 20, 2013, The Last Meal
Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY, March 19, 2013, Dating In New York and the Movement of Bodily Fluid
PROJECTS
(Re)Verb, BTNWB, geotagged augmented audio performance
Hotel Wars, Flux Factory, Queens, NY. October 2015
The Artist Who Plays Basketball, Drain Magazine Vol 12:1, 2015
Letters From A Lost Weekend, Vice Magazine, December 2014, with Rose Marie Cromwell
PRESS/PUBLICATIONS
Anthologies
Institution is a Verb: A Panoply Performance Lab Compendium, 2012-2018, Esther Neff, Anya Evans, Tsedaye Makonnen, Elizabeth Lamb, The Operating System, 2021
Emergency Index: An Annual Document of Performance Practice, Vol. 8, 2019, Ugly Duckling Presse
Emergency Index: An Annual Document of Performance Practice, Vol. 3, 2014, Ugly Duckling Presse
Reviews
Imagining The Life of The 0.01%, Hyperallergic, November, 2017 by Elisa Almino
Images From The Final Week of The Brooklyn Performance Art Festival, Hrag Vartanian,Hyperallergic, July 2013
All That You Desire, David Laggacia, Hyperallergic, October 2012
A Night Of Performance Art Brings Soho Back To Its Roots, David Lagaccia, Hyperallergic, July 2012