Bow Ty Enterprises Venture Capital (i.e. BTEVC, a.k.a. Bow Ty) is a human business conglomerate working with time, care, multiplicity, fear, joy, transformation, and enterprise. Bow Ty is an interdisciplinary artist with a B.F.A. in digital arts from University of Oregon and an M.F.A. in Performance from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Most of their professional work is with their nearly decade-long collaboration with artist Liz Ferrer. Through a queer and comedic lens, their work together has been building a reputation for critiquing American and Latin pop. Their most recent projects together are femme reggaeton band Niña and new media collaborative LIZN’BOW. At the heart of their work lies a feminist reimagining of each element, towards a more inclusive and fantastical worldview.
Bow and Liz are recipients of several awards including a Creative Capital Wild Futures Award, NEFA Development and Touring Grant, Knights Art Challenge from the Knight Foundation, Franklin Furnace Award, PAM CUT Labs Fellowship, Locust Projects WaveMaker, Oolite Arts Ellies Award in 2019 and 2022, LMCC Creative Engagement, and a Borscht Film Festival Commission.
Bow’s and Liz’s work has been featured at Locust Projects, MOCA North Miami Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, The Bass Museum, Young at Art Museum, David Castillo Gallery, Mana Contemporary, Squeaky Wheel, Borscht Film Festival, The Miami Herald, Wassaic Projects, Cunsthaus, Cincinnati Art Museum, The Koubek Center, Davey Fest, Museum of Modern Art Santo Domingo, Index Performance Art Festival Santo Domingo and Miami, Albright Knox Center Buffalo, Burchfield Penney Art Center, and The Art Institute of Chicago.
While at MacDowell Bow Ty worked with collaborator Liz on multiple projects, including a digital commission for a solo show at Locust Projects, Niñalandia Skycoaster, that opened in early September of 2024. They also worked on post production on Olgita la del Barrio and El Sirenito, a two-part web series commissioned by the Knight Foundation in 2021. They will also did some preproduction research for their 2023 Creative Capital Wild Futures Commission, Novelas de Niñas, an interactive bilingual soap opera set within a quince where music and storytelling explore the intersections of femme, queer, and Latine identity. LIZN'BOW were awarded a NEFA Touring & Development grant in 2024 towards Novelas de Niñas and have received a Headlands Project Room fellowship for October 2024.
