APRIL BERMUDEZ

Desert Biennial Project
The Desert Biennial Project is an exhibition-based survey of artists based in Nevada. Inspired by the Bullfrog Biennial, artists join from all corners of the state to celebrate the power of community, and the beauty of the landscape and environment. The DBP serves as a home for artists to come together, experiment with installation and performance, and enjoy our state’s cultural richness and incredible beauty.

FLUX-2027
2027 Desert Biennial Project centers on Flux: a state of movement, impermanence, and continuous change. The exhibition considers ecological change within a fragile desert environment, where land and climate are continually impacted by human presence (and vice versa). It explores personal and collective identity in a region influenced by migration, reinvention, and layered histories. It also reflects on the changing role of art in the entertainment capital of the world, where spectacle and permanence often dominate public space. The ACCNV (Arts Community Coalition of Nevada) invites artists to show work engaged with ideas of transition, creating work that shifts with the environment, deteriorates, adapts, or encourages involvement.

GRAVITY-2025
Inspired by the force that keeps us bound together, artists were asked to consider gravity: defying it, needing it, feeling it, ignoring it, agreeing with it.

Orbital Dance
This piece was created for the 2025 Desert Biennial Project/GRAVITY. The Orbital Dance is an extension of my Dance of Life performance/piece. A dance of painted spins and sashays, but as opposed to stationary spins, the spins extended out, painting the dance of life across the spectrum, becoming its own galaxy. The dancer at the axis, painting the galaxy with each twist and turn. Every painted spin and swirl signifies the continuous variation, yet repetitious events of life, and the incredible ways in which the human body can interact with the laws of gravity. Painting a galaxy, with a spin that creates the rings of a planetary orbit; the embodiment of life and existence, painted with twist and turns, with a continuous pattern.
