Praba Pilar received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies with an emphasis on Performance Practice as Research and in Feminist Theory and Research.

Praba Pilar is a diasporic Colombian artist and scholar disrupting the ‘cult of the techno-logic’ through live performances, video and digital works, electronic installations, and writing. Her projects have traveled widely to museums, galleries, universities, performance festivals, conferences, public streets, political meetings, bookstores, bars, and radio airwaves around the world – including San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art; BAN 5 at Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena; the Oakland Museum of California, the Museum of World Culture in Gothenberg, Sweden; el Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; the San Francisco Art Institute; Grace Performance Space in New York City; La Facultad de Bellas Artes, Altea, Spain; Toronto’s McLuhan Center for Culture and Technology; Vancouver’s LIVE BIENNALE; the Zero One Festival at ISEA; SIGGRAPH in South Korea; the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto; Galeria Studio Cerrillo in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico and many more; outside the Empire State Building in New York City during a week long residence at CUNY Graduate Center; and in numerous conferences around the world including those of the Society for Literature, Science, & the Arts; the Taboo, Transgression and Transcendence in Art & Science; the College Art Association; and as a work group leader of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics in the Americas Encuentros in Mexico City, Santiago, Chile, and Montreal, Canada.