Anna Martine Whitehead does performance from the homelands of the Council of the Three Fires; as well as the Miami, Ho-Chunk, Sauk and Meskwaki; the Kiikaapoi, Peoria, and the Očeti Šakówiŋ Nations. They hold an MFA in Social Practice from California College of the Arts and a BA in fine art with a certificate in Black Women’s Studies from the University of Maryland. Their work attends to queer and black temporalities, insurgent architectures, prison culture, and legacies of critical fabulation.
Their solo and collaborative work has been presented by the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, REDCAT, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Museum of Modern Art, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Martine and her work have been recognized by United States Artists, the New England Foundation for the Arts, National Performance Network, the Graham Foundation, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, MAP Fund, Dance/USA, 3Arts, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Martine has written about blackness, queerness, and bodies in action and contributed chapters to a range of publications including Black Social Dance: Embodied Geographies of Freedom (forthcoming); In the Horizontal Plane: taisha paggett performance works (Soberscove, forthcoming); Queer Dance: Meanings and Makings (Oxford, 2017); and Platforms: Ten Years of Chances Dances (2016). Martine is the author of TREASURE| My Black Rupture (Thread Makes Blanket, 2016).