School of Music Visiting Artist
Lu Coy (they/them) is a mixed media artist and musician of Mexican and Ukrainian Jewish heritage based in Los Angeles, California. Lu creates work in the form of performance art, video, sculpture, experimental music and song, and holds degrees from The Boston Conservatory and California Institute of the Arts. With their introspective and ritualistic performances, Coy guides their audiences through the fading architectures of ancestral, transcestral and personal memory to salvage the forms of the dead and heal moments of personal loss and failure. As a multi-instrumentalist known for their mastery of several woodwinds, use of electronics, and agile vocals, Lu performs regularly with several prominent bands in LA’s Queer-Alt-Latin music scene such as San Cha, Neyva and Sin Color, and has been featured in experimental operas by Anna Luisa Petrisko, Trulee Hall and Four Larks Opera company. As a recording artist, Lu has been included on projects for artists such as Eyvind Kang, Avey Tare (Animal Collective), Blonde Redhead, Jarina De Marco, Matias Anaya, Tyler Holmes, PJ Sin Suela and was recently featured with San Cha on STARZ’s television series VIDA. In addition to their contemporary music practice Lu is also an avid performer of both Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jewish musical traditions singing regularly in Yiddish and Ladino.