Aaron Landsman is a multidisciplinary artist and teacher. His awards include a Creative Capital Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Princeton Arts Fellowship. Aaron is obsessed with cities, shadows, anonymity and how we perform power.
His current and recent works include: Night Keeper, commissioned and presented by The Chocolate Factory Theater in 2023, now released as an album on Hallow Ground Records; the libretto for the new opera Follow, at the Gaudeamus Festival in The Netherlands. His new piece, All The Time in the World, a game-based performance about collective self-regard and social media, will premiere in 2027. His prior work has been commissioned and presented in the US, Netherlands, UK, Australia, Norway, Serbia and Belarus.
Aaron is the founder of Perfect City, a working group at the intersection of art, organizing, popular education and design. He co-authored The City We Make Together with Mallory Catlett, published by The University of Iowa Press in 2022. His writing appears, or will soon, in The Washington Post, Theater Magazine, The Iowa Review and Urban Omnibus. He is a Lecturer at Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts.