Jaimie Warren is a multidisciplinary artist and Co-Director/Co-Creator of the community arts project and fake public access TV show Whoop Dee Doo (www.whoopdeedoo.org). Her productions are large-scale collaborations with a vast array of communities in which she assembles sets, costumes and characters to re-contextualize imagery and symbolism culled from Internet memes, pop culture, and art history. The work expands on traditions of staged self-portraiture, B-horror movies, high school plays and silent films, focusing specifically on how identity is performed in both contemporary and art historical contexts. Warren experiments with multiple ad-hoc methods and techniques borrowed from sources including drag theater, prop comedy, haunted houses, musicals, and variety shows. As her productions are often highly immersive and participatory, she strives to keep her processes and references accessible and inclusive. Each project investigates relationships between class, gender, culture and subcultures to identify a thread of common interests embedded in a shared pop-cultural landscape. Through parody, impersonation, and sincere tribute, she adopts these wide-ranging elements as a platform for celebrating our various areas of cultural connection and overlap.

Warren is a NYFA Fellow in Interdisciplinary Arts and has been awarded artist residencies in New York with the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Pioneer Works, BRICworkspace, Abrons AIRspace, and Yaddo. Her work has been featured in publications including The New York Times, Art in America, artnet, ArtNews, and Artforum, among others. She is the recipient of the Baum Award for An Emerging American Photographer, and is a featured artist in ART21’s documentary series New York Close Up. Warren recently opened her first solo institutional exhibition at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, NY.