Da Ron Vinson is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and director whose work spans performance, experimental video, text, and immersive installation. Rooted in the traditions of theater and audience engaged performance art, Vinson invites participants into cyclical experiences of time fractured, looping, and palpably alive. Their practice resists linear narrative, constructing instead dense, poetic, and embodied worlds that fuse the absurd and the profound.
Within these spaces a visual vocabulary of disorientation, discomfort, and revelation are revealed. At the core of Vinson’s work lies an ongoing inquiry into Blackness, gender, and embodiment as fluid, cumulative processes. Through acts of self experimentation and
performative exchange, they explore the slippages between matter and memory, individual and collective wound, material presence and spiritual residue. Each piece becomes an act of witnessing an encounter that both unsettles and transforms everyone within it.
DA RON N. VINSON
Born in Los Angeles, CA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
2028 MFA, CalArts School of Theater Directing, Valencia, CA
2024 BFA, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
*PERFORMANCES
2026
‡ HEIL ° ; FOREVER, FOR NOW #3-4, Performer,The BOX, Los Angeles, CA, January 8, 18
2025
‡ HEIL ° ; FOREVER, FOR NOW #1-2, The BOX, Los Angeles, CA, December 11, 17
MISS/MR. CONTENTED LEAST #1-3, Los Angeles, CA, August 3, 10, 19
PULL TUG PULL #6, Department of Homeland Security, Los Angeles, CA, October 16
PULL TUG PULL #5, Houses of Parliament, London, UK, May 16
PULL TUG PULL #4, Embassy of Israel, London, Uk, May 16
RICHARD PRYOR BECOMES GEARLDINE AKA SISYPHEAN ANY FLAG AMERICAN FLAG
STAND-IN, Hollywood, CA, January 20
2024
THE BATTLE OF LONG BEACH..., BLUM, Los Angeles, CA, December 21
THE TRAMP & AMERICA THE BITCH GODDESS OF THE UNIVERSE WALK CALIFORNIA,
Sylmar, Van Nuys, Bakersfield, Stockton, Sacramento, CA, August 29, 28
PULL TUG PULL #3, West Los Angeles Police Station, Los Angeles, CA, August 2
PULL TUG PULL #2, Consulate General of Israel, Los Angeles, CA, August 2
PULL TUG PULL #1, Republican Party of Los Angeles County Office, Los Angeles, CA, July 19
ROLL OUT OL’ CAB, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, May 10
DORTHY IN OZ, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, March 15, 16, 17
2023
A PENNY FOR PIECE #3, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, December 30
A PENNY FOR PIECE #2, Metropolitan Courthouse, CA, December 4
A PENNY FOR PIECE #1, Otis College of Art and Design, December 14
THEATER
2026
Kay Whale, Character: Question, Director: Asher Hartman, Los Angeles, CA
Scenes from Titus Andronicus, Director, Valencia, CA, April 29
Scenes from The Balcony, Director, 2025
CalArts, Valencia, CA, March 3
Scenes from 4.48 Psychosis, Director, CalArts, Valencia, CA, December 2, 3
Scenes from Orestes, Director, CalArts, Valencia, CA October 27
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
(* Indicates Performance)
2024
*Roll Out Ol’ Cab | Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Playa Vista, CA 2023
*Free white & 21 | Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Playa Vista, CA
*Take the meat and throw the bones out | Galef Fine Arts Center, Otis
College of Art and Design, Playa Vista, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
If I Kissed It, Would That Make It Better?, Galef 107, Otis College of Art and Design, Playa Vista, CA
I Will Dismantle This Oppressive Establishment Board by Board, Galef 107, Otis College of Art and Design, Playa Vista, CA
Camp Camp, Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Playa Vista, CA
Weigh Heavy, Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Playa Vista, CA
3 makes 4, Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Playa Vista, CA