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YATTA is a Sierra Leonean-American artist and composer working across sound, performance, sculpture, installation, and video. Their practice is defined by textural electronics, improvisation, spirituality, and surprise.
YATTA has performed and exhibited at MoMA, MoMA PS1, The Kitchen, Tate Modern, Park Avenue Armory, The Getty, Pioneer Works, On Air Fest, and internationally at Les Urbaines, Wysing Polyphonic, New Forms Festival, Rewire Festival, and Vakuum Festival, among others. They have shared stages with Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Laraaji, L'Rain, The Sun Ra Arkestra, and Cardi B.
Their work has been covered by Pitchfork, The Wire, The Quietus, Artforum, and ArtNews, and their writing has appeared in Pioneer Works Broadcast Magazine and The Brooklyn Rail. YATTA holds an MFA in Music and Sound from Bard College and a BA in Film Studies from Wesleyan University.
@yatta.sound
C.V. available upon request