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David Nobody is a NYC performance artist and sculptor with a 30 year deep repertoire in the art world, weird undergrounds, and 147k followers on Instagram as @davidhenrynobodyjr. David is known for diverse bodies of performative work while in character in a wide array of mediums. His work which he calls Fantastic Nobody, marches to the beat of its own drum, often mixing art and life, and blurring boundaries. The creations have ranged from pure invention like the Human Weeble Wobble in the mid 90s, to more critical interventionist performances like rolling out a Red Carpet when no one was coming in ​’98, to Stalking Donald Trump for a year undercover in ​’99 and predicting the Trump presidency.

David’s first solo show in 2000 was photographic documentation of a year of VIP party crashing posing as scion Alex Vonfurstenberg in a $20 vintage suit. Sixty photos were exhibited and became a scandal in the media, appearing on the front page of The New York Observer, tabloids like the Globe and on national TV with ABC 20/20.

His work has gone on to embrace its predictive arc into tech and the internet and echo its themes and dilemmas/​consumerism into wearable performative sculptures which he calls Resemblagè. In the last years he has been involved in Web, selling his work as NFTs on the blockchain, while continuing with live performances and physical gallery solo exhibitions and installations.

Biographical notes provided by the program’s curator