Genevieve White is a performance artist living and working in New York City, originally from Montreal. She works with video, photography, painting, drawing, installations and performance. Her interest in the absurdity of repetitive gestures, body language, and consciousness are the grounds on which she creates her visual vocabulary. I am interested in what moves people. I feel things I don't understand, my energy leading the boat. Extremity creates necessity which brings anyone close to their core, where imagination grows and finds truth. I want to expose just that.

She was born in Montreal, Canada in May of 1983. White attended Parsons the New School for Design from 2007-2009. She received her M.F.A.
She has been shown in group exhibitions at The Kitchen, 151 Gallery, Artist’s Space, Envoy Enterprises, Cooper Union and has performed at the Summer Stage Festival, the Whitney Museum, Deitch, Perfoma festival, the Neuberger Museum, the Rover, and the New Museum.

I use my body to test my limits and expose my vulnerability. I am interested in the states of repression and freedom, identity shifts and body language. I wrap my head entirely with yarn, obstructing my senses, which becomes a heavy head. I finally stretch the twine away with my hands to free myself from my mask until I re-appear. The rope or the things that bind us is also what can make us free. A symbolic nature and abstraction drives most of my performances. Navigating from the inside out, I try to unravel truths and myths about others and myself. I am interested in using the body as a map, a vessel, a container, a follower, an interdependent and independent being that impacts its environment.
Genevieve White