Beginning May 2025, the Performance Art Museum launched its Long Term Residency (LTR) initiative with performance artist Asher Hartman as the inaugural recipient. Designed as an ongoing program to support multiple artists in the years ahead, each LTR provides funding over two years and prioritizes career sustainability and holistic artistic development. This comprehensive support is particularly crucial for Hartman as he works to rebuild his extensive performance archive lost in the recent Eaton Fires.

Throughout his four-decade career, Hartman has remained committed to performance as his primary medium. His work exists in the fertile margins between performance art, experimental theater, and immersive installation—creating experiences that resist easy classification within traditional artistic disciplines. What remains constant is Hartman’s examination of American society’s most uncomfortable truths. His performances frequently confront audiences and the performers with their own complicity in systems of violence, challenging us to recognize our participation in political and social structures that are often critiqued from a distance.

Long Term Residency is presented by the Performance Art Foundation. Additional support courtesy of Abby Sher, Miyoung E. Lee and Neil Simpkins, and Mariel Carranza.