Jay Carlon

Jay Carlon is a Los Angeles–based artist working across performance, film, installation, and community gathering. His practice explores migration, postcolonial identity, queer futurity, grief, ritual, and collective healing. Rooted in interdisciplinary collaboration and site-responsive performance, Carlon blurs the boundaries between dance, visual art, experimental sound, and social practice.

His work has been presented nationally and internationally by organizations including Lincoln Center, Bangkok 1899, REDCAT, The Broad, and UCLA’s Center for Art and Performance. Carlon is a recipient of the 2024 Ellis-Beuregard Choreographer Award, a New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project Grant, a California Arts Council Established Artist Fellowship, and was named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch.” Alongside his choreographic work, he has contributed to community-based organizing and artistic platforms centering Filipino, queer, diasporic, culinary, and experimental performance practices.

Through intimate and large-scale works alike, Carlon creates spaces that invite audiences into shared experiences of embodiment, memory, transformation, and care.