Esther Sibiude is a visual artist, a harpist and a harp instructor living in New York. Originally from France, she studied philosophy at la Sorbonne in Paris before she moved to Berlin to study Fine Arts at the Universität der Künste. She started to learn classical harp at age seven and extended her harp studies to jazz and improvisation as an adult. She now teaches private lessons at her home in Park Slope. Concurrently she writes and directs short stories that she puts to music. They are performed live by her string ensemble or broadcasted on the radio. Recent performances that she wrote and directed include The Song of Dirt Stammers our Tongue a live staged radio operetta performed at the Kitchen and Esra a live staged radio play performed in the panorama of NYC at the Queens Museum. Her works combines story-telling with a wide range of music, old and new, and seeks to create space for contemplation. The allegories she writes inspire her drawing and painting practice in which biomorphic landscapes evoke possible origin stories.
2024 Performance Spirit and Soul Become Confused, Roulette
2023 Performance The Spill, David Zwirner Gallery
Performance The Song of Dirt Stammers our Tongue, The Kitchen
Solo exhibition The Big Crunch, Entrance Gallery
Performance Medium / 98.6F with Miho Hatori, 47 Canal Gallery
Performance Spirit and Soul Become Confused, St Peter’s church
2022 First iteration of The Song of Dirt Stammers our Tongue, Montez Press Radio
Group exhibition Step Count, curated by Reilly Davidson, Shoot the Lobster
Gallery
Group exhibition Under the Volcano, Lomex Gallery
Group exhibition The Matter at Hand, curated by Alexander Boland, 2Cat Gallery
Performance Untitled, Derosia Gallery
Performance Untitled, Alyssa Davis Gallery Gala
2021 Performance Esra, in the panorama of New York City at the Queens Museum
Radio compilation Naps and Dust broadcasted on Montez Press Radio,
Threads Radio, Subtext Radio
2020 Performance Nightshade co-written with Colleen Billing, Montez Press Radio
Radio drama Crisis Baby Crisis, Montez Press Radio
Radio drama Ikea Promenade, Montez Press Radio
Radio compilation The Ceiling, Montez Press Radio
Radio compilation Tools of Morning, Montez Press Radio
2019 Performance My Heart Swims In Blood, Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church
2018 Publication The Daily Stress, Printed Matter
Exhibition Nightshade, with Colleen Billing, Catbox Contemporary
Performance The Daily Stress, Motel Gallery