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(2022) The Legacy of Marina Abramović’s “The Artist is Present” Lives On with New Generations of Artists, Artsy
(2021) Performance under Torrington Warner Theatre marquee to feature Black Femme Residency artists, The Register Citizen
(2020) What It Takes To Raise a Black Woman Up, The New York Times
(2020) Outstanding, Girl, You Knock Me Out: Ayana Evans and Tsedaye Makonnen, BOMB Magazine
(2018) A Performance Artist’s Tests of Endurance Honor the Black Female Body, Hyperallergic
(2017) Checking in – Ayana Evans’s conceptual aerobics in Person of the Crowd, The Art Blog
(2017) In Conversation with Ayana Evans: Her Black Womanhood as Performance Art, Gallery Gurls
(2017) How American Artists Aligned with Caribbean Resistance at FIAP 2017, Cultbytes
(2017) Barnes tackles urban experience with ‘Person of the Crowd’, AP News
(2016) Dangerous Bodies on the Verge of Breaking Down, Hyperallergic
(2016) My Residency at El Museo Del Barrio: What I Planned vs. What Actually Happened, Cultbytes
(2016) 3 Women Changing the Art Game, The Cut
(2015) FEATURING "Frying Chicken" with Ayana Evans & David Ian Griess, Performance Is Alive
(2014) Ayana Evans: The Art of Cat Calling, Snobette