About this Artist

Autumn Breon is a Los Angeles–based multidisciplinary artist working across performance, sculpture, installation, and social practice. With a background in engineering and a degree in Aeronautics & Astronautics from Stanford University, she approaches art through systems thinking, designing works that investigate care, liberation, and collective survival as forms of infrastructure. Her practice centers the histories and ongoing presence of marronage, the acts of escape, refusal, and world-building carried out by enslaved people who formed autonomous communities beyond plantation systems. Breon understands maroon communities as an enduring logic that continues to shape how freedom is imagined and enacted. Her work often engages sites where fugitivity altered the conditions of time and space, creating environments where alternative ways of living could take hold. Through large-scale installations and performances, Breon creates immersive experiences that invite audiences to physically and psychologically move between worlds. Her projects treat movement as a form of knowledge, drawing on the body’s memory of navigation, evasion, and arrival. Breon’s work has been presented at institutions including Hauser & Wirth, The Watermill Center, and MOCA Los Angeles. She is a recipient of the Race Forward Land & Justice Artist Fellowship and the Crenshaw Dairy Mart Fellowship for Abolition and the Advancement of the Creative Economy.