Performance │Miles Greenberg│Twelve Academic Studies Événement / Performance

10h00 Time scale
7h00

Hours

The : Saturday 3 October 2026 from 10h00 to 17h00

As part of the exhibition Kerry James Marshall: The Histories, artist and performer Miles Greenberg takes over the Matisse Room with Douze études académiques, a durational performance presented continuously throughout the day.

Drawing on the pictorial vocabulary that Kerry James Marshall has developed around the Black figure and its modes of representation, the performance explores what lies beyond the visible: the states, tensions, and forms of affect that circulate between bodies.

Some of the performers, who are also singers, will intermittently perform songs, recite texts, or offer prayers drawn from references and sources of inspiration in Kerry James Marshall’s practice.

 

Ongoing performance throughout the day. Free admission, subject to availability.

 

This project is supported by the Québec Government Office in Paris.

 

BIOGRAPHY

 

Miles Greenberg (b. 1997 in Montreal, Canada) is a performance artist and sculptor. His work consists of large-scale, sensorially immersive and site-specific environments revolving around the physical body in space. These installations are activated with often extreme durational performances that invoke the body as sculptural material, with the goal of making visible the poetics of the human form; particularly through the lens of the African diaspora. His performances are captured in real-time before the audience to generate later video works and sculptures. 

Rigorous and ritualistic in its methodology, Greenberg’s universe relies on slowness and the decay of form to heighten the audience’s sensitivities. The result is something akin to a ritual space that invites both the performer and the audience to navigate, decipher and honour the émotions, often beyond language, that reside and resonate in the body.

At age seventeen, Greenberg left formal education, embarking on four years of independent research into movement and architecture. He has worked under the mentorship of Édouard Lock, Robert Wilson, and Marina Abramović and has been an artist-in-residence at the MacDowell Residency, NH (2026); Fountainhead Arts, Miami (2023); La Manutention at Palais de Tokyo (2019); and The Watermill Center Residency, NY (2017 & 2018), among others. In 2025, Greenberg was a teaching fellow at the Pina Bausch School in Essen, Germany. In 2023, he was featured on Forbes' 30 Under 30 list in the Art & Style Category.

He has exhibited and performed internationally at museums and galleries, including the Portland Art Museum (Portland), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Reiffers Art Initiatives (Paris), The Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), The Southbank Centre, (London), The Louvre (Paris), Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin), The New Museum (New York), Pace Gallery (New York), Galleria Continua (Les Moulins) and more. Greenberg’s work has also been included in numerous international art surveys, including the Venice Biennale, Yokohama Triennale, the Athens Biennale, BoCA Lisbon, and the Bangkok Art Biennale.