Brian Feldman Projects
Brian Feldman (he/him/his) is an internationally presented performance artist and actor. Since August 2003, he has presented 1,000+ performances of 140+ projects at 175+ venues and festivals in cities worldwide via Brian Feldman Projects, one of the world’s premier presenters of experimental time-based art.
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His work has been favorably compared to Marina Abramović, David Blaine, Chris Burden, John Cage, Christo, Marcel Duchamp, Tehching Hsieh, and Andy Kaufman. It has also been recognized with government, civic, and cultural organization grants*; and featured on movie screens, television, radio, in print, and online. He has been named Best Performance Artist by Orlando Weekly (2008, 2009) and Washington City Paper (2018, 2024).
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He lives in Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, where he has presented work in all 8 Wards and 30 D.C. neighborhoods. As the news site DCist once noted, “In a city that has an advocacy group exploring how to ‘make D.C. weird’ – and is still struggling – Brian Feldman is a shining beacon of eccentricity.”
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He is a three-time marathon finisher.
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*Four Arts and Humanities Fellowships in Theatre (2017, 2018, 2021, 2025) and two Projects, Events, and Festivals grants (2019, 2026) from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, a 2011 State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship (Interdisciplinary), and three grant awards from United Arts of Central Florida (2008, 2011, 2015)