Brandon Perdomo is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist from Staten Island, NY, fascinated with self-reflection and alterity, which serves as the engines for his work in visual and performance work, as well as socially-engaged intervention. Perdomo’s work in public & oral history interviewing as a social practice provokes a reexamination & reclamation of narrative power, as well as interrogation of systems of assimilation.
He proud grandchild to Colombians, Sephardic Honduran/Mayans, and Greeks.
Perdomo received his B.S. in Sensory Studies & Application (interdisciplinary self-design) from SUNY Fredonia, and M.A. in Oral History from Columbia University, where he was awarded a Diversity Project Grant from the Office of Academic Diversity & Inclusion for his program “Lift Every Voice: Racism, Power, and Activism in the Arts: A Conversation with Angeline Butler”.
Perdomo is a three-time awardee of the DCA Art Fund Grant (Staten Island Arts, NYC). He has presented work rooted in creative exhibitions and conversation focused on interdisciplinary storytelling and /testimonyofthebody to the European Social Sciences History Conference - University of Gothenburg (Gothenburg, Sweden), Roosevelt University (Chicago, IL), Farmingdale State College, The Florida Holocaust Museum (St. Petersburg, Fl), the Oral History Association, and Snug Harbor Cultural Center, among others. Further project participation and collaborations have brought him to HERE Arts Center in New York, and CAVE home of LEIMAY in Brooklyn.
LEIMAY || Archivist & Public Programs
Planning and execution of digitizing and cataloguing of media of past dance festivals, gallery exhibitions, and performances spanning 25+ years for the purpose of building organization’s interactive timeline / archive for public reference.
Project supported by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
A MEAL (Work In Progress) || Led and transcribed interviews amplifying testimonies of food vendors in New York City.
Hosted Recipe Storytelling Circles in partnership with the New York Restoration Project and HERE Arts Center.
Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect || Exhibition Coordinator
Delivered exhibitions to academic and cultural institutions, complimented with docent trainings, keynote presentations, community conversations, and media literacy workshops, with focus on anti-bias and anti-racism training.
WorldPeace.org (NGO) || Main Representative to the United Nations
Moderated and contributed in international and local panel discussions, both online and in-person. Served on committees for high-profile events within the United Nations and related communities. Identified local talent (musicians, dancers, artists) for collaborative presentation. Participation highlights include the annual International Day of Peace Student Observation (IDP), Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), The Tibet Fund - Annual Dalai Lama Birthday Celebration, and the Gandhi-King Season for Nonviolence. International Judge for annual student arts contest by Peace Pals International.