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Paige Alice Naylor is a Chicago-based multimedia artist, experimental vocalist/musician, Deep Listener, and curator working within the realms of sound, light, performance, multichannel sound installation, handmade electronics, acoustic ecology, listening practices and poetry. She constructs listening environments that are vulnerable, direct and interpersonal through the breakdown of language, time, and perception. Paige is a classically trained vocalist and performs internationally: solo, with Olivia Block and Jon Mueller, and in experimental pop duo 4D Girlz with Corey Smith. She recently released her solo album, The Unearthing, through Chicago label, Monastral in February 2024.
Paige has exhibited work at Museum Villa Stuck (Germany), Vox Populi (Philadelphia), Recess (NYC), New Media Contemporary (Dallas), Baltimore Theatre Project, D.C. Arts Center, Black Iris (Richmond, VA), Samek Art Museum (Lewisburg, PA), Zhou B Art Center, Terrain Biennial, Experimental Sound Studio, Hyde Park Art Center, ADDS Donna, Gene Siskel Film Center, School of the Art Institute, Mana Contemporary, and others. She has performed at Rewire Festival, Variations (FR), Public Records (NYC), The Lab (San Francisco), Indexical (Santa Cruz), 2200 Arts & Archives (LA), Onion City Film Festival, Chicago Cultural Center, Granite City Art and Design District, Constellation, the Empty Bottle, Public Works, The Plan, the Quarantine Concerts, Lumpen Radio, amongst others.
Her work has been featured in the Wire, NPR, Longform Editions, Sixty Inches from Center, Newcity Art, sun-13, CAMP Radio, surgeryradio, WHURK Magazine, the Documentarian, and is one of Comfort Station’s 2025 “Artists to Watch.”
Paige gained an MFA in Sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on full scholarship where she currently teaches and holds a Certificate in Deep Listening from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is a curator for Elastic Art’s Elastro Series, served as program director for the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology’s Summer Soundwalks in the Park Series for 3 consecutive years, co-founder of Chicago Sonic Commons, and Sound Sculptor’s Union.