Navild Acosta is a multi-award winning and internationally acclaimed multi-media artist and activist from New York. Acosta studied dance and choreography at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in New York and at CalArts in Los Angeles. His intersectional identities as transgender, queer, and Afro-Latinx have continuously inspired his community based work. Acosta’s work and thought leadership have debuted in various Institutions internationally, including Matadero Madrid, Tate Modern, Tanz Im August and Kunst-Werke Institut, Weinerfestwochen, The David Roberts Foundation, Museum of Art and Design in Miami, The Kimmel Center, Human Resources, MoMA PS1, Studio Museum, New Museum, and McGill University, among many others.

Acosta has collaborated with Alicia Keys, Fannie Sosa, Bearcat, Pxssy Palace, Ms. Boogie, Monstah Black, Lyle Ashton-Harris, Ralph Lemon, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Deborah Hay, and Andrea Geyer. His current projects include Black Power Naps, a multi-purpose separatist organizing space with a focus on rest, restoration, rejuvenation, reparation, and Black joy. Other multimedia, all devised in collaboration with Black artists, are propositions for how reparative economies can better hold communities of color. Parallel to his artistic practice through his racial justice work he has provided racism trainings for cultural producers at Matadero Madrid, KW Institute, NYU, Vassar College, and Movement Research.