Shannon Scrofano is a Los Angeles-based designer whose work includes interdisciplinary performance, public space, exhibition, curation, dialogue, and activism projects internationally and throughout the US. She collaborates with communities, organizations, movement builders, and artists.
Her work has been seen at venues including the Berlinale, the National Cultural Center in Kampala, PICA’s TBA, the Getty Villa, REDCAT, El Teatro Público in Havana, the Prague Quadrennial, the Mistake Room, the Skirball Cultural Center, the Ostrava Festival, SF MOMA, ADF, and the Tribeca Film Festival, as well as in city halls, car dealerships, warehouses, desert expanses, under bridges, on rooftops and on an elk ranch, and has been supported by organizations including ArtPlace, National Endowment for the Arts, the Mellon Foundation, Creative Capital Map Fund, the Surdna Foundation, TCG’s AHA, and the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
She has been recognized by the YBCA 100 as an “inspiring creative mind,” received a multi-year Mellon Creative Research Fellowship, and been honored to work with an inspiring gamut of collaborators through the years. She has worked extensively in cross-disciplinary cohorts including the Kettering Foundation’s first democracy + arts working group, Appalshop’s Performing Our Future action research project, as a Pando Populus Fellow on ecological and sustainability initiatives in Los Angeles County, and was selected for the Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s 2024 Change Leadership Cohort. She has been a guest / visiting faculty at institutions including Brown University, Duke University, Georgetown University, Northwestern, NYU, CSU, and USC, and at festivals and conferences including the Prague Quadrennial, the Sorbonne Université, the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, the Brown Art Institute, the National League of Cities’ Summit, and the University of Goldsmiths in London.
She is a co-founder of the Center for Performance and Civic Practice, which supports cross-sector arts-driven collaborations for community-led transformation, and served as Co-Artistic Director of Nuestro Lugar: North Shore, a large culture-driven, community development project in the Salton Sea, in partnership with Kounkuey Design Initiative and Mutuo Architecture, and featured in the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. She currently serves on the boards of Los Angeles Performance Practice and Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, and on the LIRIS North America core working group (Laboratoire International de Recherche sur les Images et la Scénographie).
She lives and works in the Los Angeles River and Santa Clara Watersheds, in the Greater California bio-region, on the unceded lands of the Tataviam, Tongva, Chumash, Serrano, and Kizh peoples.
