Artist In Presidents is directed by Constance Hockaday and produced in partnership with UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance and Stanford Live Arts-- with support from The Kenneth Rainin Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and TED.

Constance Hockaday is a queer Chilean-American from the US/Mexico Border. She is a director and visual artist who creates immersive social sculptures on urban waterways.  In 2001, she began making work with the Floating Neutrinos, a family of psycho-spiritual wanderers who sailed around the world in handmade vessels. She has collaborated with Swoon’s Swimming Cities projects, sailing floating sculptures along the Hudson, Mississippi, and the Adriatic Sea (2006-09). In 2011, she created the Boatel, a floating art hotel in NYC’s Far Rockaways made of refurbished salvaged boats—an effort to reconnect New Yorkers to their waterfront. The project attracted 5000+ visitors, international press and critical acclaim. The New York Times described her 2014 piece All These Darlings and Now Us—as a “powerful commentary on the forces of technification and gentrification roiling San Francisco.”  This project highlighted the displacement of San Francisco’s queer community: more than 1000 people watched peep show performances on a raft of retrofitted sailboats featuring artists from two recently shuttered iconic queer businesses--The Lusty Lady and Esta Noche. Hockaday holds an MFA in Social Practice and MA in Conflict Resolution.  She is also a Senior TED Fellow and an artist in residence at The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA.