Meet the 2026 Warm Up Host Committee
A group of New York-based artists key to the city’s music, nightlife and performance networks, the Host Committee offers creative guidance for the season.
About the Host Committee
hannah baer is a writer and clinical psychologist based in New York. Her first book is the memoir trans girl suicide museum. Her second book, about parties in theory and in practice, is forthcoming from FSG in 2027. She is a psychoanalytic candidate and a contributing editor to Parapraxis.
Lysis has, is, and will be. Currently, she is an ocean-bred, transdisciplinary caretaker, freedom junkie and nightdancer based in New York. She is also the author of AFTERS (Accessing Freedom Together Everyday in Realtime, Severely) and the mother of Quivas.
Diane Severin Nguyen works with photography, video, installation, and performance. Through material and sculptural experimentation, she approaches the photographic moment as one of transformation. Her moving image works examine the histories of power, victimhood, and forms of propaganda that underpin cultural and self-image making. Nguyen’s work was featured in Greater New York 2021.
Elliot Reed is an internationally exhibited performance artist based in New York. He received his MA in Choreography from Master EXERCE ICI-CCN in Montpellier, France, was a danceWEB ‘19 scholar, member of The Whitney Museum ISP 23-24 cohort, Studio Museum Artist in Residence and part of the museum’s permanent collection. Reed’s work was featured in This Longing Vessel: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2019–20.
Women’s History Museum (est. 2015) was founded by Mattie Barringer and Amanda McGowan in New York City out of the desire to create novel and previously unseen images of beauty. The duo engages with fashion as a medium that has the potential to exist beyond regurgitative spectacle and the ability to change the fabric of reality. In an effort to encompass the psychic reality of fashion and foster a creative community, they interrogate the idea of the museum and insist on alternative and inclusive methods of recording history. Their work is featured in Greater New York 2026.
