Nathaniel Sullivan (b. 1976, Vancouver, Canada) is an artist based in the Bronx, New York working across video, multimedia lecture performance, sound colllage, and site-based drifts. His practice moves between factual research and speculative counter-fictions to examine capitalism’s cultural residues, the absurd rituals of power, and the point at which logic gives way to myth.

Selected presentations include Documenta 14 (Kassel), FilmWinter (Stuttgart), Code+ Festival (Buenos Aires), and performances at Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson and Vox Populi (Philadelphia), as well as New York venues including Flux Factory and Smack Mellon. He has participated in international screenings and performances across Europe, North and South America.




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

Letters From A Lost Weekend, Vice Magazine, December 2014, with Rose Marie Cromwell


PRESS/PUBLICATIONS

Institution is a Verb: A Panoply Performance Lab Compendium, 2012-2018, Esther Neff, Anya Evans, Tsedaye Makonnen, Elizabeth Lamb, The Operating System, 2021

Anthology: Emergency Index: An Annual Document of Performance Practice, Vol. 8, 2019, Ugly Duckling Presse

Imagining The Life of The 0.01%, Hyperallergic, November, 2017 by Elisa Almino

Economia: Short Films About Finance, May 2017

Anthology: Emergency Index: An Annual Document of Performance Practice, Vol. 3, 2014, Ugly Duckling Presse

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