nia love is a three-time Bessie award-winning choreographer, performer, teaching artist, Mother , and deep sea diver. She is a recent awardee of the prestigious Alpert Award and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Fellowship, and New England Foundation For The Arts award. She is an inaugural recipient of several distinguishing fellowships in dance, including Urban Bush Women’s Choreographic Center Initiative Fellowship (2019), Urban Bush Women Choreographic Fellowship at Maggie Allesee National Center For Choreography, Tallahassee, FL (2019-2020); a Gibney DiP Dance in Process Residency at Gibney Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, New York, NY (2019) among many more. Her latest work UNDERcurrents serial multimedia work g1(host):lostatsea (2015-present) investigates the ocean as a site of knowledge and memory, scrutinizing the “afterlife” of slavery and what remains of the Middle Passage as force, gesture, and affect. Continuing this body of work, her project UNDERcurrents had its first iteration at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA (2021). This spring 2025, nia love is continuing to engage in archival research and rehearsal in preparation for her premiere of UNDERcurrents at Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts (MoFA) in 2026. Investigating histories of transatlantic slavery, this fully-immersive performance and art exhibition will feature her late father’s work, Ed Love (sculptor and FSU professor), and offer critical reflections from several world-renowned authors including Fred Moten and Christina Sharpe within the catalogue publication and further public programming. In the spring of 2025, she will be delivering a lecture and embodied workshop at the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers University on her project UNDERcurrents, and has completed the Yale Committee for Art Recognizing Enslavement (CARE) grant proposal. She will be conducting international archival research on the transatlantic slave trade in Bristol and Liverpool (UK) the summers of 2025 and 2027. nia love is an Associate Professor at Florida State University.
