Zoe Scofield CV
zoe | juniper Co-Artistic Director, Choreographer and Performer
bio
2015 Guggenheim Fellow Zoe Scofield is a dance and visual artist based in Seattle Washington since 2002. Born and raised in Gainesville GA, Zoe began ballet at a young age, instilling in her a deep love and interest in structure, discipline and performances’ ability to create a transformative experience. Zoe attended Walnut Hill School for the Arts, an arts high school in Boston MA, receiving a Monticello Choreography Fellowship and graduating with high honors in dance. After, she danced with Prometheus Dance in Boston and Atlas Moves, directed by Bill James in Toronto Canada.
In 2005 Zoe began working with video and visual artist Juniper Shuey on video, photographic and dance collaborations shown in visual art galleries, museums and theaters.
Major works
2018
ALWAYS NOW – COMMISSIONED PERFORMANCE, Jacob’s Pillow
2017
CS360 – 360 FILM, US Premiere: Local Sightings Festival, Seattle
CLEAR & SWEET - COMMISSIONED PERFORMANCE, On the Boards, Bates Dance Festival, New York Live Arts, North Carolina University, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, 2016-2017
2015
WHEN WE ARE KINGS - COMMISSIONED PERFORMANCE, Boston Conservatory
WE WERE – COMMISSIONED INSTALLATION AND PERFORMANCE, Genius Exhibition, The Frye Art Museum, Seattle
NOUS/US - COMMISSIONED PERFORMANCE, CNDC Angers France
BEGINAGAIN - COMMISSIONED PERFORMANCE, On the Boards, Seattle WA, The Joyce Theater and 3 Legged Dog, 2015 DancePlace, PS 122 COIL Festival, RedCat, Philly Fringe and The Body Festival, 2014-2015
2014
IANALEXDANIELSAMANTHAANDMARRIA – CO-COMMISSIONED PERFORMANCE, Pennsylvania Ballet and Philly Fringe Festival, Philadelphia
2012
NO ONE TO WITNESS, KATE&ZOE STUDY #1 - COMMISSIONED PERFORMANCE, City Arts Festival, Seattle
NO ONE TO WITNESS, FRYE STUDY #2 - COMMISSIONED INSTALLATION AND PERFORMANCE, Moment Magnitude Show Frye Art Museum, Seattle
NO ONE TO WITNESS, FOR FORGETTING STUDY #3 - COMMISSIONED INSTALLATION AND PERFORMANCE, GoatFarm and gloATL Tanz Farm, Atlanta
ELEVEN - COMMISSIONED PERFORMANCE, Strictly Seattle Velocity Dance Center, Seattle
FLEE ON YOUR DONKEY- COMMISSIONED PERFORMANCE, On the Boards Northwest New Works Festival, Seattle
A CRACK IN EVERYTHING: INSTALLED- VIDEO AND PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION, Diverseworks Art Space, Houston, PICA’s TBA Festival, Portland, 2011-2012
A CRACK IN EVERYTHING - COMMISSIONED PERFORMANCE, On the Boards, Jacob’s Pillow, Bates Dance Festival, PICA TBA Festival, Diverseworks, Dance Theater Workshop/NYLA, The Joyce Theater, The Spoleto Festival, PuSh Festival, The Dance Center at Columbia College of Art Chicago 2011-2013, Trafo House of Contemporary Art (Budapest), Southern Lights Dance with The Body Festival and SOFA Gallery (New Zealand), American Realness Festival, Abrons Art Center 2009-2012
AS YET UNTITLED- PERFORMANCE, Off the Edge Festival, Rialto Theater, Atlanta
2011
EXQUISITE CORPSE- CHOREOGRAPHER, Joanne Leighton Director CCN de Franche-Comte a Belfort France
THE MACDOWELL COLONY FUNDRAISER- VIDEO INSTALLATION, New York Times Center, New York
A.W.A.R.D. Show! PERFORMANCE, On the Board
WHEN WE WERE YOUNG, COMMISSIONED PERFORMANCE, Coriolis Dance Company, May 2010
2009
MATER, MATRIX, MOTHER, MEDIUM- COMMISSIONED PERFORMANCE, collaboration with Mandy Greer
THE DEVIL YOU KNOW IS BETTER THAN THE DEVIL YOU DON’T – COMMISSIONED PERFORMANCE, On the Boards, PICA TBA Festival, Dance Theater Workshop, Bates Dance Festival, Myrna Loy Center, ICA Museum/ CRASHArts, Wesleyan University, Yerba Buena Center/Left Coast Leaning Festival, NPN Annual Conference, 2007-2009
2008
OLD GIRL - COMMISSIONED PERFORMANCE, On the Boards Northwest New Works Festival 2009, originally commissioned by Spectrum Dance Theater
WHITE TEETH – BOOK, Self published photography book
2007
“EH HEE” – VIDEO, Choreographer and co-director, Dave Matthews video,
FIND YOUR OWN WAY OUT, SCUBA TOUR - COMMISSIONED PERFORMANCE, Velocity Dance Theater, ODC Theater, The Southern Theater, Inside/Out Jacobs Pillow, MOVE!, 2007
SIN, COMMISSIONED PERFORMANCE, Frye Art Museum, Seattle
CONTENDER, PERFORMANCE, Ten Tiny Dances 2006-2007
PAST WANTING, COMMISSIONED PERFORMANCE, commissioned by Spectrum Dance Theater
2006
THERE AIN’T NO EASY WAY OUT, COMMISSIONED PERFORMANCE, On the Boards New Artist Series
2005
I AM NOTHING WITHOUT YOU, COMMISSIONED PERFORMANCE, On the Boards Northwest New Works Festival
awards and Residencies
2017
PRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION, Choreography Mentorship Co-Commission Award
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Inaugural Kawasaki Guest Artist 2017-2018
ALABAMA DANCE COUNCIL, Engaging Dance Audiences, Inaugural Artist 2017-2019
AMERICAN DANCE ABROAD, Delegate, Seoul Korea
2016
NEA, Art Works Grant, “CS360”
ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION BELLAGIO INSTITUE, Residency, Bellagio Italy
4CULTURE, Tech-specific Grant, “CS360”
2015
GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION Choreography Fellowship, US
CENTER DE NATIONAL CHOREOGRAPHIC / CNDC, Residency, Angers France
2014
VELOCITY DANCE CENTER, Artist in Residence, 2012-2014
ON THE BOARDS in conjunction with THE MELLON FOUNDATION, Recipient of Dance Production Program, 2010-2012 and 2012-2014
2013
THE STRANGER GENIUS AWARDS, Winner
PRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION, Special Projects Award
2012
THE STRANGER GENIUS AWARDS, Nominee
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER, Teaching Residency, Boulder CO
CITYARTS MAGAZINE, Arts Innovator Award/Future List
NEFA, National Dance Project Production Grant, “A Crack in Everything”, 2009-2010 / 2011-2012
National Performance Network, Creation and Production Residency 2011-2012
2011
PRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION, Choreography Fellowship
MAD AIR RESIDENCY, Stella Adler School of Acting, NYC
THE STRANGER GENIUS AWARD, Shortlist
2010
JACOB’S PILLOW RESIDENCY, Creative Development Residency
ALPERT AWARD, Nominee and Residency Award Recipient
THE MACDOWELL COLONY, Residency Fellowship
2009
THE BODY FESTIVAL RESIDENCY, New Zealand
ARTS CENTER ARTIST RESIDENCY, New Zealand
TRAFO HOUSE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Artist in Residence, Budapest
FLORIAN THEATER, Artist in Residence, Budapest
2008
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, Mariam McClone Emerging Choreographer Award
SEATTLE MAGAZINE, Spotlight Award
ARTIST TRUST, Gap Grant
THE STRANGER GENIUS AWARDS, Short List
ARTIST TRUST, Dance Fellowship
CENTRUM YOUTH ARTIST PROGRAM, Resident Artist and Teacher, 2007-2008
NEFA, NATIONAL DANCE PROJECT, Production Grant, “The devil you know is better then the devil you don’t”, 2007-2008
NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK, Creation and Production Residency, “The devil you know is better than the devil you don’t”, 2007-2008
solo exhibitions
A CRACK IN EVERYTHING: INSTALLED, COMMISSIONED INSTALLATION AND PERFORMANCE, Diverseworks Art Space, Houston TX January-February 2012
A CRACK IN EVERYTHING: INSTALLED, COMMISSIONED INSTALLATION AND PERFORMANCE, TB:A Festival Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland OR 2011
ZOE | JUNIPER SO FAR, SOLO SHOW, SOFA Gallery Arts Center, Christchurch New Zealand 2009
ZOE | JUNIPER, SOLO SHOW, Velocity Dance Center, Seattle WA 2007
THIS, IN SPITE OF IT ALL - PHOTOGRAPHY SOLO SHOW, Velocity Dance Center Gallery, Seattle WA 2007MYSTERY IN WHICH WE ALL PARTICIPATE, SOLO SHOW, Howard House Contemporary Gallery, Seattle WA 2005
group exhibitions
WE WERE – COMMISSIONED INSTALLATION AND PERFORMANCE, Genius Exhibition, The Frye Art Museum Seattle, 2015
NO ONE TO WITNESS- STUDY #2, COMMISSIONED INSTALLATION AND PERFORMANCE, Frye Art Museum: Moment Magnitude, Seattle WA, November 2012
PREY, PHOTOGRAPHY, Curated by Dena Rigby, Winston Wachter Gallery, Seattle WA, 2011
MACDOWELL COLONY GALA, VIDEO INSTALLATION AND PHOTOGRAPHY, New York Times Center, New York, NY 2010
8th NORTHWEST BIENNIAL TACOMA ART MUSEUM, BIENNIAL, Juried exhibition curated by David Kiehl and Rock Hushka, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA, 2007
SOIL, 1995-2005 A RETROSPECTIVE, curated by SOIL members, SOIL Art Gallery, Seattle WA, 2007
TEACHING RESIDENCIES, WORKSHOPS, LECTURES, AND COMMISSIONS
Dance Underground | New Orleans, LA (2016)
New York University | New York, NY (2016)
CalArts | Los Angeles, CA (2014, 2016)
Velocity Dance Center - Strictly Seattle | Seattle, WA (2012 - 2016)
Boston Conservatory | Boston, MA (2015)
Walnut Hill School of the Arts | Walnut Hill, MA (2015)
Gibney Dance Center | New York, NY (2015)
Dance Complex | Boston, MA (2015)
Mark Morris Dance Center | Brooklyn, NY (2013 - 2016)
University of the Arts | Philadelphia, PA (2015)
Tufts University | Medford, MA (2015)
Colburn School | Los Angeles, CA (2015)
DancePlace | Washington DC (2015)
Downtown Dance Collective | Missoula, MT (2014)
The Playground | New York, NY (2014)
Pennsylvania Ballet | Philadelphia, PA (2014)
Cornish College of the Arts | Seattle, WA (2014)
University of Utah - SALT Dance | Salt Lake City, UT (2014)
BodyTraffic | Los Angeles, CA (2013)
University of Oregon | Eugene, OR (2013)
Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL (2013)
100 Grand | New York, NY (2012)
gloATL Tanz Farm | Atlanta, GA (2012)
University of Colorado Boulder | Boulder, CO (2012)
Coriolis Dance Company | Seattle, WA (2010)
Spectrum Dance Theatre | Seattle, WA (2008)