Jeff has been performing art for the last 20 years, both nationally and internationally. He enjoys the bicycle, the hammer, the saw, the wood, his wife and son, his family, his friends, his work. (…except sometimes he doesn’t enjoy these things as much; it depends.) He is the son and grandson of far more practical people, which he tries to express in his art. His mother often thought he should stop getting naked in front of people and privately he thinks she is probably right; and something about death.
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Awards
Jeff doesn’t think he has received any awards. Yet. However, he is watching his mailbox/inbox (you CAN email him), eagerly awaiting any awards anyone wants to send his way.
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Travel/work
Jeff has been very lucky lately and has been able to travel quite a bit to perform. In the last few years he has worked in Italy, France, Germany, Poland, Scotland, China, and Canada, in addition to festivals and events here in the US: Boston, Salt Lake City, NC, NYC, Chicago and Los Angeles. In addition, he is involved in a publishing project, a peer-reviewed journal on Performance called TotalArtJournal.com which he co-founded with a good friend and SMFA alum, Natalie Loveless, who is about 1000 times more badass than he is.
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Education
Jeff received his BFE (1999) and MFA (2004) from the Museum School, Boston.
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End
It has been said that you are only as good as your last performance, and Jeff’s last performance wasn’t as bad as it could have been.
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Jeff Huckleberry
jeff.huckleberry@gmail.com
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Education
2004
M.F.A., S.M.F.A./Tufts University
1999
B.F.E., S.M.F.A./Tufts University
Areas of Specialization: Performance, Drawing, Sculpture, Video and Painting
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Professional Experience
2024 – Present
Co-Director Mobius Artists Group
2013-2014
Part-Time Visiting Faculty, Performance, S.M.F.A., Boston
2006-2007
Visiting Faculty, Performance, S.M.F.A., Boston
2002-2004
Graduate Teaching Fellow, beginning, intermediate and advanced level Performance classes, (instructor of record), S.M.F.A., Boston, MA
Summer-2003
Instructor, Video, Pre-College Program, (instructor of record), S.M.F.A., Boston, MA
2002
Teaching Assistant, Advanced Video Projects, Spring 2002, S.M.F.A., Boston, MA
1999-2001
Art Teacher, teaching fine arts and video production courses, co-director of student one-act plays for regional competition, developed curriculum for video department and participated in overall development of arts department curriculum, Hamilton/Wenham Regional High School, Hamilton, MA
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Exhibitions, Screenings, Performances (collaborators indicated)
2026
2025
Untitled, Viva! Art Action, Montreal, CA {duration ~1.5hrs}
Untitled, Le Lieu, Quebec City, CA {duration ~.5hrs}
Thing in the Woods, KM3, Centre BANG, Saint-Nazaire, CA (Sandy Huckleberry) {duration ~1.5hrs}
Fall, Collaboration, LOCULUS Festival, Holyoke, MA (Sandy Huckleberry, Forbes Graham, Jimena Bermejo) {duration ~1hr}
Recreate, TUAG, Mobius/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA {duration ~3hrs}
2024
Collaboration, LOCULUS Festival, Holyoke, MA (Jimena Bermejo) {duration ~1hr}
Spring, One Minute Solos, (Sandy Huckleberry) Mobius, Cambridge, MA {duration ~1min}
Mobius LIVE!, Vivid Oblivion, Cambridge, MA {duration ~1hr}
2023
Untitled, Choosing to Portage, Tephra ICA, Reston, VA {duration ~1.5hrs}
Untitled, (Merry Fucking Christmas.), Salt Lake Performance Art Festival, Salt Lake City, UT {duration ~1.5hrs}
Untitled, Lakeville, CT {duration ~1hr}
Untilted, Mobius LIVE!, Lilypad, Cambridge, MA {duration ~20min}
7 Murders, Dir. Forbes Graham, Boston, MA
2022
maybe something…
2021
nothing…except not nothing; the bike shop and photos!
2020
nothing…except the bike shop and the pandemic. Oh! Check out the photos though…
2019
nothing…all bike shop all the time and a pandemic.
2018
Bridge, (Hi, Mom!) Salt Lake Performance Art Festival, Salt Lake City, UT {duration ~1.5hrs}
No ideas, Broad Sense, Marshall, NC {duration ~2hrs}
2017
Move across the country and start a fancy bicycle shop, Del Mar, CA
2016
Garden #2, Performance Art Week, Venice, IT {duration ~1hr}
Broken(f), SAIC,Chicago, IL {duration ~45min}
Little Witches, Mobius, Boston, MA {duration ~1hr}
2015
Rainbow, Gatineau, Quebec {duration ~1.5hrs}
Split, Le Lieu, Quebec City, Quebec {duration ~1hr}
Garden, Chicoutimi, Quebec {duration ~1.5hrs}
A Nose and Some Grass, Foligno, IT (Sandy Huckleberry)
2014
A Nose and Two Bricks, Live Art Festival, Dublin, Ireland (Sandy Huckleberry)
Purple, Mobius, Boston, MA (Sandy Huckleberry) {duration ~1.5hrs}
Jeff Huckleberry – Things About Rainbows, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA (co-curated with Daniel Deluca) Featuring: Alastair Mclennen, Sandra Johnson, James Luna, Marilyn Arsem, Vela Phelan, Sandy Huckleberry, Julie André T and Jamie McMurry
Indigo, Mobius, Boston, MA (Sandy Huckleberry) {duration ~1.5hrs}
TACTIC, JV, Toronto, CA (Vela Phelan) {duration ~2hrs}
2013
The Possibility of This Working is 0%, Out of Site, Chicago, IL {duration ~1.5hrs}
Untitled (rainbow #8), Live Art Action, Los Angeles, CA {duration ~1hr}
Broken(e), Visualeyez Festival, Latitude 53, Edmonton, Canada {duration ~1.5hrs}
POACH, Festival of Sound and Performance Art, Acton, MA (Vela Phelan) {duration ~24hrs}
8th Rainbow, Crane Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA {duration ~1hr}
Garden #1, Near Death Performance Art Experience, Boston {duration ~1.5hrs}
Expected Outcomes(First Fountain), REACH festival, Easthampton, MA {duration ~1hr}
7th Rainbow, Pigs and Rabbits, National Art Gallery, Sopot, Poland {duration ~1.5hrs}
2012
6th Rainbow, (Attempt at not being a walking fucking joke), 7a11d Performance Festival, Toronto, CA {duration ~1.5hrs}
5th Rainbow, Time/Body/Space/Objects, Anthony Greaney Gallery, Boston, MA {duration ~1.5hrs}
4th Rainbow, Rough Trade 2, Defibrilator Gallery, Chicago, IL {duration ~45min}
COLORS, (6 performances: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple) Mobius, Boston, MA (Sandy Huckleberry)
TIME EATERS-CAMOLAND, Together Festival/Amalgamate, Boston, MA (Vela Phelan) {duration ~1.5hrs}
3rd Rainbow, 100 Years (Version #4 Boston) Boston University, Boston, MA {duration ~30min}
2011
TIME EATERS – RATCHET, Grace Space, Brooklyn, NY (Vela Phelan) {duration ~1.5hrs}
TIME EATERS – Hungry Ghost, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA (Vela Phelan) {duration ~1.5hrs}
Pretty Little Rainbows(b) (1st and 2nd Rainbows), Festival de performances Préavis de désordre Urbain, Marseille, France {duration ~1hr}
Broken (d), Free Clinic #1, Action Bureau, L.A., CA {duration ~1hr}
Expected Outcomes (c), Performer Stammtisch, Berlin, Germany {duration ~1hr}
Broken (c), INTERAKCJE Performance Festival, Poland {duration ~1.5hrs}
Two Clowns and a Death, SMFA, Boston, MA (Julie Andrée T.) {duration ~1hr}
2010
Douglas, Le Lieu, Quebec, Canada {duration ~45min}
Pretty Little Rainbows, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY {duration ~30min}
TIME EATERS – COFFIN, MEME Gallery, Cambridge, MA, (Vela Phelan) {duration ~1.5hrs}
Everything and Nothing, ArtRages, Boston, MA (. )
TIME EATERS – WEDGE, FnordBox, Boston, MA, (Vela Phelan) {duration ~1hr}
2009
Very beautiful art show for you, MEME Gallery, Cambridge, MA
broken (b.), Open Art International Performance Festival, Beijing, China {duration ~1hr}
THICK v2, 57 Delle Project Space, Boston, MA {duration ~1.5hrs}
broken (a), Mobius, Boston, MA {duration ~1hr}
Expected Outcomes, National Performance Art Month, Idyllwild Arts Academy, Idyllwild, CA {duration ~1hr}
2008
Expected Outcomes, Mobius, Boston, MA {duration ~1hr}
Another performance with a sledge hammer, National Review of Live Art, Depicting Action, Glasgow, Scotland {duration ~1hr}
performance…, Mobilize, Mobius, Boston, MA {duration ~1hr}
2007
nothing, for TREMOR4 Festival at Mobius, Boston, MA (Vela Phelan) {duration ~1.5hrs}
THICKv1, LIVE Biennial, Vancouver, B.C. {duration ~1.5hrs}
12 hours, Mobius, Boston, MA {duration ~12hrs}
Under Everything, Eventworks, Mass Art, Boston, MA {duration ~1hr}
Everything that lives, sucks. v2, Haunted Cream Egg, Philadelphia, PA {duration ~30min}
2006
TRAPPED, MIFPA Festival, Boston MA (Vela Phelan) {duration ~1hr}
16 feet, Depicting Action, 18th Street Gallery, Santa Monica CA {duration ~1.5hrs}
Everything that lives, sucks., TEST 10, Piano Factory, Boston, MA {duration ~30min}
TRAP, at Seconds Festival, Midway Studios, Boston, MA, (Vela Phelan) Blacken, Oni Gallery, Boston, MA, (Vela Phelan) {duration ~1hr}
Ravine, UC Santa Cruz, CA, (Dillon Paul) {duration ~2hrs}
2005
JOBBOX, Legion Arts, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Waterloo Arts Center, Waterloo, Iowa {duration ~1.5hrs}
Black Chicken BBQ, TEST #8, Parking Lot, (Vela Phelan), Boston, MA {duration ~45minhrs}
Lightweight, TEST #6, MassArt Squash Courts, Boston, MA {duration ~1hrs}
2004
I love you my Polish friend. I hate you, you Polish fuck., Castle of Imagination Festival, Shindler Factory, Krakow, Poland {duration ~45min}
I win!, Castle of Imagination Festival, Baltic Gallery, Utska, Poland {duration ~45min}
What’s Broken?, Mobalize performance series, Lowell, MA {duration ~1hr}
High School Was Great!, TEST #2, Boston, MA {duration ~45min}
2003
Dominate/Heal, Test #1, (Vela Phelan), Boston, MA {duration ~45min}
Magic Chopping Hummingbird, live sound, Mobius ArtRages, (Vela Phelan), Boston, MA
Pillow Fight 2003, Mobius ArtRages, (Paul Waddell), Boston, MA {duration ~1.5hrs}
Perform, Mobius ArtRages, (Vela Phelan, Alice Vogler, Alice Flaherty, Niall Johnson, Sandy Huckleberry), Boston, MA {duration ~4.5hrs}
Human Shield, live sound, Thirsty Ear, Cambridge, MA, S.M.F.A., Boston, MA, Middle East, Cambridge, MA, O’Brien’s Pub, Allston, Ma, (Craig Gaulzetti, Neal Johnson)
JOBBOX, Magic Chopping Hummingbird, M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, performance and live sound, Tufts University, Medford, MA {duration ~1.5hrs}
Sniper, Cleveland Performance Festival, Cleveland, OH {duration ~35min}
Anonymous Target, S.M.F.A., Boston, MA {duration ~35min}
24 Hours, group performance with Alastair MacLennan, (Dillon Paul, Rose Hill), S.M.F.A., Boston, MA {duration ~24hrs}
2002
Sniper Culture, Mobius ArtRages, (Vela Phelan, Alice Vogler, Sandy Huckleberry, Wilder Huckleberry), Boston, MA {duration ~3.5hrs}
Ready? Let’s Go! 1-3, S.M.F.A., Boston, MA {duration ~1hr}
The Naglfar, Mobius ArtRages, (Vela Phelan, Alice Vogler, Sandy Huckleberry, Wilder Huckleberry), Boston, MA {duration ~2.5hrs}
2001
Wrestle, video, Student Annual, S.M.F.A., Boston, MA
The Orange Room, Mobius ArtRages, (Vela Phelan, Sandy Huckleberry), Boston, MA {duration ~2.5hrs}
Everyday, Mobius, (Vela Phelan, Sandy Huckleberry, Matt Briggs), Boston, MA {duration ~1.5hrs}
1984, video, Video Show, S.M.F.A., Boston, MA
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Artist Organizations
2024 – present
Co-Director, Mobius Artists Group, Boston, MA
2010 – present
Co-founder and Artistic Director, Total Art Journal (http://totalartjournal.com)
2004 – present
Mobius Artists Group, Boston, MA (http://mobius.org)
2003 – 2006
TEST Performance, Boston, MA
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Exhibitions Curated
2025
Boston Butoh and Performance Art Festival, BCA, Boston MA (Ellen Godena)
2010
ArtRages, Mobius, Boston, Ma
Yard Sale, Mobius, Boston, MA
2008
Contaminate #3, Midway Studios, Boston, MA (Sandy Huckleberry, Phil Fryer, Sandrine Shaefer, Alice Vogler, Vela Phelan, Dirk Adams)
2006
MIFPA International Performance Festival, Boston MA (Marilyn Arsem, Jed Spear. Milan Kohout, Mary Novotny-Jones)
TEST #10, Boston MA, (Sandy Huckleberry, Helen Pfann, Dirk Adams, Vela Phelan, Alice Vogler)
Contaminate #1, Midway Studios, Boston, MA, (Paul Waddell, Travis Fuller, Helen Pfann, Sandy Huckleberry, Alice Vogler, Vela Phelan, Dirk Adams, Phil Fryer, Sandrine Scheafer)
TEST #9, bear cages Franklin Park, Boston, MA, (Sandy Huckleberry, Helen Pfann, Dirk Adams, Vela Phelan, Alice Vogler)
2005
TEST #8, International Bike, Boston, MA, (Paul Waddell, Travis Fuller, Helen Pfann, Sandy Huckleberry, Vela Phelan, Alice Vogler, Dirk Adams)
TEST #7, International Bike, Boston, MA, (Paul Waddell, Travis Fuller, Helen Pfann, Sandy Huckleberry)
TEST #6, Mass Art, Boston, MA, (Paul Waddell, Travis Fuller, Helen Pfann, Sandy Huckleberry)
2004
TEST #5, Mass Art, Boston, MA, (Paul Waddell, Travis Fuller, Helen Pfann, Sandy Huckleberry) Mobius ArtRages, Performances, Music, Event Coordinator, (Sandy Huckleberry, Nancy Adams)
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Bibliography
2012
Interview, METAMUZEUM, Art in the Street, volume 1, Artur Tajber
2011
2009
Interview, The Present Tense Archive (thepresenttense.org/archive), Sandrine Schaefer, Philip Fryer
2005
Scott Cawelti, “Performance artist presents the naked truth”, The Courier, Cedar Falls/Waterloo, Iowa
2004
Marcia Ferguson, “JOBBOX”, review of JOBBOX, performed in September 2003, Theater Journal, May vol. 56, number 2 Natalie Loveless, Staking Performance Art, Big, Red and Shiny, issue 4. Natalie Loveless, Between (The Performance and its Remnant), Big, Red and Shiny, issue 2
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Artist Talks
2016
SAIC, Chicago, IL
2011
University of Hildesheim, Germany
2009
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Idyllwild Arts Academy, Idyllwild, CA
2008
Museum School, Boston, MA
JEFF HUCKLEBERRY 