biography

Aliya Bonar is a multi-disciplinary artist and community organizer. Her work explores costume and dress-up, performance and alter-egos, PowerSuits and Anti-PowerSuits, and usually involves cooking a lot of food for a lot of people in very short amounts of time.

Aliya is a member of the Flux Factory art collective in Queens NYC creating experimental collaborative art and community events ; she’s also a Project Manager at Thinx bringing radical solutions for menstruation and incontinence to market.

Aliya’s work has been exhibited internationally: the ARoS Museum in Aarhus, Denmark; chashama gallery during New York Fashion Week; Every Woman Biennial in New York, NY; Flux Factory in New York, NY; The Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY; Shared Space Studio in Grand Rapids, MI; and at every Sandwich Club Summit to date. Aliya lives in Queens, New York.

experience

Artist in Residence: ARoS Atelier / Flux Factory / The Wassaic Project / Shared Space Studio / Have Company / Art Shanty Project / Elsewhere Living Museum / Bonar Family Residency Program

Guest Lecture: Open Engagement / Hampshire College / Sandwich Club Summit

Teaching & Facilitation: The Fashion Class / Art Lab School of Fine & Applied Arts / Eileen Fisher Leadership Institute / The Painted Cloud

Press & Publications: Art F City / DNA Info / @newyorkermag / L Magazine / Queens Chronicle / Palm Beach Daily News / Small Town Social Practices Vol. 1