Genevieve Erin O’Brien (they/them) is a Los Angeles based Queer, Nonbinary, Vietnamese/Irish/German artist. O’Brien holds an MFA in Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was a Fulbright Fellow to Vietnam. O'Brien was Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles’ Creative Economic Development Fund recipient in 2015 & 2016. As a US Dept. of State/ZERO1 American Arts Incubator Artist, O’Brien traveled to Hanoi to develop a digital media project highlighting LGBTQ visibility and equality. More Than Love on the Horizon and Sugar Rebels were commissioned by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. O’Brien’s performance series Refugee Resistance Menu was funded by The Critical Refugees Studies Collective of the University of California. O’Brien was a Civic Media fellow at USC Annenberg Innovation Lab 2023-24. They are a California Community Foundation Fellowship in Visual Arts awardee for 2024-25. In their art practice, O’Brien uses conceptual performance, food-based performance, video, installation, fiber & material arts, art & tech and social practice to share stories and shift narratives. Their work explores diaspora, community, queer domesticity, memory and belonging, the body and bodily autonomy and impending climate change. O’Brien, once a butcher’s apprentice and frequent lecturer in Asian American Studies, is also a chef and owner of sausage enterprise Meat My Friends. Erin O’Brien is a fermentation fanatic, sourdough enthusiast, pasta maker, sassy sewist and dumpling lover.