Bailey Scieszka

Bailey Scieszka lives and works in Detroit. She holds a BFA from the Cooper Union in New York City. She has recently shown with Atlanta Contemporary (Atlanta), MOCAD (Detroit), Stems (Brussels), Larrie (New York), Maria Bernheim (Zürich), AALA (Los Angeles), and What Pipeline (Detroit). Her puppet dramas have been performed at Paris Internationale and NADA New York. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, Vogue, Forbes, The New York Times, Mousse, Cura, Cultured, and The Los Angeles Times, What Pipeline recently published More Heart Than Brains: The Collected Plays of Bailey Scieszka. Much of Scieszka’s work emerges from the mind of her alter-ego Old Put, a demonic-shape-shifting-clown whose works across performance, video, painting, and drawing are layered with popular reference.