Malik Gaines

Malik is in the center of the portrait-formatted photograph, cropped from the torso up.He is wearing a white, short-sleeved colared button down, smiling and looking at the camera. Behind him is a patterned backdrop of green repeating cubes. — © Paul Mpagi Sepuya

Malik Gaines is a founder of the performance group My Barbarian; author of Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left and many essays about art and performance; co-artistic director of The Industry, LA's experimental opera company; and associate professor of Performance Studies at NYU Tisch.