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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 environments that are vulnerable, direct and interpersonal in order to create new social and emotional realities for others through the breakdown of language, time, and perception. Paige is a classically trained vocalist and performs 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 Onion City Film Festival, Chicago Cultural Center, Terrain Biennial, Experimental Sound Studio, Elastic Arts, Hyde Park Art Center, Mana Contemporary, Constellation, ADDS Donna, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Gene Siskel Film Center, Zhou B Arts Center, Links Hall, the Empty Bottle, Public Works, The Plan, Museum Villa Stuck (Germany), Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA), Recess (NYC), Black Iris (Richmond, VA), Baltimore Theatre Project (Baltimore, MD), Granite City Art and Design District (Granite City, IL), Live Arts (Charlottesville, VA), D.C. Arts Center (Washington, D.C.), as well as through programs such as The Quarantine Concerts, Chicago Park District’s Night Out in the Parks, and Lumpen Radio.
Her work has been featured in the Wire Magazine, NPR, Longform Editions, Newcity Art, Chicago Reader, surgeryradio, WHURK Magazine, and the Documentarian.
Paige gained an MFA in Sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on full scholarship and holds a Certificate in Deep Listening from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is a curator for Elastic Art’s Elastro Series, the program director for the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology’s Summer Soundwalks in the Park Series, co-founder of Chicago Sonic Commons, and Sound Sculptor’s Union.
contact: paigenaylor(dot)studio(at)gmail(dot)com
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