About Nell Breyer

Select Exhibitions, Performances & Installations

2025

Nell Breyer, Untitled, 2025. Drawing. Drawing Now 2025, CICA Museum, Korea.

Nell Breyer and Alissa Cardone, Dance. Woman. House., 2025. Exhibition, performance, and residency. Keshet Center for the Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2023

Nell Breyer and Alissa Cardone, Dance.Woman.House., 2023. Interdisciplinary Performance. Eustis Estate, Milton. Co-produced with Mobius. Excerpts performed in collaboration with Landay. The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Boston.

2022–23

Nell Breyer, Where Lines Converge, 2022–23. Public art commission. Central Synagogue, New York. Curated by Sarah Berman.

2022

Nell Breyer, The infinite land of a thousand dances, 2022. Public art commission. Kaufman Arcade, NY Garment District Alliance, New York. Supported by a City Artist Corps Grant, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

Nell Breyer, In the Lines on the Rocks, 2022. Choreography and mixed media. Bogliasco Foundation Arts Fellowship, Bogliasco, Italy.

2020

Nell Breyer, Untitled, 2020. Site-specific mural commission, semi-permanent. Coney Island Fly Wheel, Brooklyn. Commissioned by The Alliance for Coney Island and by the Coney Island Fly Wheel.

2013

Nell Breyer, The Sixth Room, 2013. Interactive digital portal, collaboration with Catherine D’Ignazio and Sarah Sze. Commissioned for Sarah Sze, Triple Point, U.S. Pavilion, 55th Biennale di Venezia, Venice. Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies.

2012

Nell Breyer, On Either Side, 2012. Multi-channel interactive installation, permanent. Collection Boston Ballet, Boston.

Nell Breyer, Falling, 2012. Video. Art on the Marquee, Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, Boston. Curated by George Fifield.

2011

Nell Breyer, Sol Le Witt’s “Bars of Color Within Squares (MIT)”. 2011. Drawing. An Exchange with Sol Le Witt, MASS MoCA and Cabinet Magazine, North Adams. Curated by Regine Basha.

Nell Breyer, A Dance in Sol Le Witt’s “Bars of Color Within Squares (MIT)”, 2011. Performance with video. MIT+150 / FAST Festival, Boston Cyberarts, Cambridge.

Nell Breyer, Perspectives on a Dance in Sol Le Witt’s “Bars of Color Within Squares (MIT)”, 2011. Video installation. Carroll and Sons Gallery / Boston Cyberarts, Boston.

Nell Breyer, After Disappearance, 2011. Video installation. Mediated Motion, La MaMa Gallery, New York. Curated by Lindsey Medeiros and Billy Clark (CultureHub).

2010

Nell Breyer, A Dance in Sol Le Witt’s “Bars of Color Within Squares (MIT)”, 2010. Multi-channel video with live performance. MIT, Cambridge.

Nell Breyer, After Disappearance, 2011. Multichannel interactive installation. University Art Gallery – Sewanee University, Tennessee.

2009

Nell Breyer, Alissa Cardone, Lorraine Chapman, and Bronwen MacArthur, The Disappearing Woman, 2009. Performance, commission. Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston and Summer Stages Dance, Boston. Subsequently The Berkshire Fringe, Great Barrington, and The Yard, Chilmark.

Nell Breyer, Falling, 2009. Video. Collection George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston.

2008

Nell Breyer, Alissa Cardone, Lorraine Chapman, and Bronwen MacArthur, The Disappearing Woman, 2008. Performance. Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York.

Nell Breyer, Insula, 2008. Performance. Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston, CRASHarts, Boston.

Nell Breyer, Time and the hour run through the roughest day, 2008. Installation, permanent. Contemporary Art Collection of the Carl J. and Ruth Shapiro Cardiovascular Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston.

Nell Breyer, Insula, 2008. Video. Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis.

2007

Nell Breyer, i:move, 2007. Interactive video installation. Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. Curated by Pamela Jennings.

Nell Breyer and Stefanie Nelson, Wonderland, 2007. Installation and performance. Dance New Amsterdam Gallery and Theater, New York.

Nell Breyer Meridional Flow, 2007. Multi-channel and interactive commissioned permanent video installation. Risk Management Solutions, Hackensack, NJ.

2006

Nell Breyer, ParticipART, 2006. Interactive art installation. MART — Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto.

Nell Breyer, Faces of Boston, 2006. Public art commission. Boston City Hall, Boston.

Nell Breyer, Notation, Crowd Trails, 2006. Installation. The Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia.

Nell Breyer, RE:actions, 2006. Public art commission. Lumen Eclipse, Harvard Square, Cambridge.

2005

Nell Breyer, Time Translations, 2005. Public art commission. World Financial Center, New York. Curated by Debra Simon, Brookfield Properties.

1997-2004

Choreographic works presented at:

  • Sadler’s Wells / Peacock Theatre, London
  • Her Majesty’s Theatre, Haymarket, London
  • The Place Theatre, London
  • Continental Shifts at St Bride’s, Edinburgh Fringe Festival
  • Institut del Teatre, Barcelona; Commissioned under EEC “Kaleidoscope” Programme, 1997
  • Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels), Montreal, Canada
  • The Bangladesh National Museum, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • The Liberation War Museum, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Judson Memorial Church, New York
  • St. Mark’s Church, New York
  • Joyce SoHo, New York
  • Dance Theater Workshop, New York

Interactive installation and mixed media or multi-channel works presented at:

  • The MIT Museum
  • The Compton Gallery, MIT
  • The Boston CyberArts Festival
  • The Art & Architecture Gallery, Yale University
  • Designing Interactive Systems 2004
  • Dance Theater Workshop