Candice D’Meza Intergalactic Liberation Bureau: Archive 001

Artist Studio Program 2025/2026 participant, Candice D’Meza, will present a new installation Intergalactic Liberation Bureau: Archive 001 in the John M. O’Quinn Gallery opening Friday, October 30 and running from October 31-December 19, 2026.

Candice D’Meza is a Houston-based multidisciplinary artist working across theater, performance, film, ritual, and social practice. A four-time Houston Press Theater Award winner and 2024 Cal Arts Herb Alpert Award in Theatre nominee, her work explores Black futurism, ancestral technologies, and speculative world-building. She has been commissioned by The Catastrophic Theatre for Miss LaRaj’s House of Dystopian Futures (2025) and A Maroon’s Guide to Time and Space (2023), and her projects have been commissioned, presented, exhibited at institutions, including Latinx Playwrights Circle, DiverseWorks, The Blaffer Museum, The Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, and Colgate University. Her work spans multimedia storytelling, experimental documentary, and ritual performance, engaging themes of grief, liberation, and intergenerational memory.