Born 1997, Wareham, MA
Raised in Fall River, MA
Lives and works in Chicago, IL
justindacci@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2020 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, B.F.A. in Studio, focus in Performance and Video
SOLO EXHIBITION
2020 Glot’s Glib Gliss — No Nation Tangential Unspace Art Lab, Chicago, IL
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 PERFECT DISK — Mavra, Chicago, IL
Shelf Show — Sawhorse, Chicago, IL
2025 Survey — Unda.m.93, Chicago, IL
2024 Tenebrae — Weatherproof, Chicago, IL
2023 Pressure Dome — SULK CHICAGO
An Evening of Art/e Accion — No Nation Art Lab, Chicago, IL
Sacred Spore — Propagate Cooperative, Clark Park, Chicago, IL
Semiotic Electrocution Via Vibratory Fiery Thoughts — No Nation Art Lab, Chicago, IL
2022 LetsRayasUnaParabolaAzulescaInNuestrosInnardsGrisesyMarrón — No Nation Art Lab, Chicago, IL
No Body, Only Spirit — Chicago, IL
2021 An Evening of Performance Art, Sound & Video — No Nation Tangential Unspace Art Lab, Chicago, IL
Secret Spore — “The Garden,” Chicago, IL
bless’ed curse — Solo Show, soloshow.online/blessed.html
Staycation — Unsanctioned Airbnb, New York, NY
2020 Day 16 — Post World Radio, Instagram Live
Day 14 — Post World Radio, Instagram Live
Inaugural Show — Post World Radio, Instagram Live
The Head Sinks First [Undergraduate Exhibition] — Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
TheCulturalArtificeOneMinutePerSecondEqualThisIsEstaNocturna — No Nation Art Lab, Chicago, IL
Bare Feet in Flux with a Tempest of Flying Viscous Half Bricks — No Nation Art Lab, Chicago, IL
2019 Simulation: DECAY — Olín Studio, Chicago, IL
Art for Dentists — The Yards, Chicago, IL
Line Scars On Earth And Kidneys Warmth In Mist From The Pores — No Nation Art Lab, Chicago, IL
2018 The Escape Realm — Olín Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017 Arcadia — Olín Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016 Role Play — Disco City, Chicago, IL
PUPPETRY
2026 National Puppet Slam — Center for Puppetry Arts, Atlanta, GA
Puppet Lab Showcase — Chicago International Puppet Theatre Festival, Raven Theatre, Chicago, IL
Cataclysmic ecstasy and Apocalypse — Chicago, IL
Safety Pin’s Bottom of the Barrel — Playground Theatre, Chicago, IL
2025 We Wiggle Dolls — Life World, NYC
House of the Exquisite Corpse V — Rough House, Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago, IL
Midwest Tour — We Wiggle Dolls, Various Venues, NYC to Chicago
scrap !!! attak — Auricle, Hull-House Residents’ Dining Hall, Chicago, IL
Grand Finale — Unda.m. 93, Chicago, IL
Labyrinth — Rabbit Foot Puppetry, New Orleans Giant Puppet Festival, New Orleans, LA
Nasty Brutish & Short Puppet Cabaret — Rough House, Links Hall, Chicago, IL
2024 Ghosts | Horizon — Auricle, Comfort Station & Big Foggy, Chicago, IL
House of the Exquisite Corpse IV — Rough House, Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago, IL
Tunnel of Love — Rabbitfoot Puppetry, Agitator Gallery, Chicago, IL
2023 House of the Exquisite Corpse III — Rough House, Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago, IL
Nasty Brutish & Short Puppet Cabaret — Rough House, Links Hall, Chicago, IL
2022 House of the Exquisite Corpse II — Rough House, Chopin Theater, Chicago, IL
Nasty Brutish & Short Puppet Cabaret — Rough House, Links Hall, Chicago, IL
2020 Nasty Brutish & Short: Puppet Quarantine IV — Rough House, YouTube
CURATORIAL
2023 Electric Ditch: Jackson Moran & Pete Willson — Droll, Chicago, IL
2022 The Apartment: Justin Ortiz & Kira Scerbin — Droll, Chicago, IL
SELECT PUBLIC PERFORMANCES & INSTALLATIONS
2024 Impish Romp — Northerly Island, Chicago, IL
2022 Play & yalP — La Ronda Parakata, Chicago, IL
2020 Ornament — Bridgeport, Chicago, IL
2019 A Fountain Becoming — Bridgeport, Chicago, IL
BUNNY MADNESS — Bridgeport, Chicago, IL
Going Bare (At Body Creek) — Windsor Park, Austin, TX
2018 GUTTERBALLS — North Attleboro, MA
The Marathon — Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL
Late to the Party — Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago, IL
The Rain that Never Ends — Armour Square Park, Chicago, IL
2017 Swings (in the wind and light rain) — Armour Square Park, Chicago, IL
PVT Punishment — Georg Solti Garden, Chicago, IL
Feed Me — Market Square, Providence, RI
SCREENINGS
2026 48 Hour Puppet Film Festival — Greenfeather Foundation
NOSE (Night of Screened Entertainment)— Facets, Chicago, IL
2025 Grin & Bear It: Cinema of the Dark Clown — Elastic Arts, Chicago, IL
2022 Sooth Ob-Sooth — Apartment 13 Gallery, Providence, RI
2021 Sooth Ob-Sooth Screening Series — 3337 S W******, Chicago, IL
Flat Earth Film Festival — Flat Earth Cinema, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
PUBLICATIONS
2022 Clarity; or Drivel from a Limb; or Dawn of Man, Lucid and Hard; or… — Self published, Chicago, IL
2021 The Book of Sooth Ob-Sooth — Self published, Chicago, IL
COLLECTION
2021 Department of Arkhives — Black Tower Editions
CLOWN WORKSHOPS
2026 Puppetry and Clown — Dragon Con, Atlanta, GA
2025 Credentis — First Presbyterian Church, Chicago, IL
2024 Pomporomp — Reyes (Guadalupe) Park, Chicago, IL
2023 CLOWN! — Droll, Chicago, IL
2021 In(tro)duction — Basement 3337, Chicago, IL
2019 First Steps — No Nation Tangential Unspace Art Lab, Chicago, IL
Finding Play — No Nation Tangential Unspace Art Lab, Chicago, IL
2018 Unleashing the Clown — Chicago, IL
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIP
2026 Passport Program — UNIMA, Charleville-Mézières, France
2025 Puppetry Scholarship Award — Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center
TRAINING
2025 Human Puppets, Alice Laloy — O’Neill National Puppetry Conference, Waterford, CT
2023 Moooov Voice — Sarah Zalek & Elaine LeMieux, Chicago, IL
2020 Puppet Lab, Mike Oleon and Claire Saxe — Rough House Theater, Zoom
The Clown Within, Joana Barbosa — Physical Theatre Festival, Zoom
2019 Outside Eyes (The Performer’s Surgery), Angela de Castro — Physical Theatre Festival, Stage 773, Chicago, IL
The Modern Clown — Mark Frost, Theatre Unspeakable, Chicago, IL
2016 Intro to Clowning — Mycah Hogan, Gamm Theatre, Pawtucket, RI