2023 Pillow Lab Artist | 360 Workshop Artist Faculty
André M. Zachery is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist of Haitian and African American descent. He is a scholar, researcher and technologist with a BFA from Ailey/Fordham University and MFA in Performance & Interactive Media Arts from CUNY/Brooklyn College. As the artistic director of Renegade Performance Group (RPG), his practice, research and community engagement artistically focuses on the merging of choreography, technology and Black cultural practices through multimedia work. André is a 2016 New York Foundation for the Arts Gregory Millard Fellow in Choreography and the 2019 Jerome Hill Foundation Fellow in Choreography. His works with RPG have been presented domestically and internationally, receiving support through several residencies, awards, commissions. These have included the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Arts Center at Governors Island/COVID-10 Emergency Relief Fund-NYC, City University of New York Dance Initiative, The Performance Project @ University Settlement, ChoreoQuest-in-Residence at RestorationArt, 3-Legged Dog Art + Technology Center, HarvestWorks and a Jerome Hill supported Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. Grants that Zachery has been awarded include the Brooklyn Arts Council, Harlem Stage Fund for New Work, and a Slate Property Group S.P.A.C.E Award. Commissions have come from the Brooklyn Museum, Five Myles/BRIC Biennial and Danspace Project. RPG has earned mentions and favorable reviews from publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Village Voice, Culturebot, Infinite Blogspot, Futuristically Ancient, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, The Daily News and AFROPUNK. As a technologist, Zachery has collaborated with various artists through RPG, the design team of 3-Legged Dog Art + Technology Center, and The Clever Agency on design installations, immersive media productions, film productions, film editing, projection mapping and performance collaborations. Zachery has worked on major projects across artistic mediums as a choreographer, media designer and as a consultant with artists such as Daniel Bernard Roumain, Cynthia Hopkins, Davalois Fearon, Arin Maya, Kendra Foster, and Spike Lee. Companies he has worked with include Dance Caribbean COLLECTIVE, Rags & Ribbons, The Clever Agency, Manhattan School of Music, and Burwell & Sasser. As a scholar, he has been a member of panels, led group talks, facilitated discussions and presented research on a myriad of topics including Afrofuturism, African Diaspora practices and philosophies, Black cultural aesthetics, technology in art and performance and on expanding the boundaries of art making within community. He has been a panelist and presented his research at institutions such as Duke University, Brooklyn College, University of Virginia, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Zachery has taught at Brooklyn College and been a guest faculty member at the dance programs of Florida State University, Virginia Commonwealth University, The Ohio State University, and University of California, Los Angeles. renegadepg.com