Asia Stewart is a visual artist who uses performance as a pathway to image-making. Her performances, often durational works of endurance, unfold as social experiments that negotiate terms of agency and power with audiences. Introducing levels of risk into the performer-audience relationship, Stewart both demands and elicits audience members’ attention, engagement, and unease. Her performances almost always involve unpredictable exchanges, whether they are physical, material, monetary, energetic, or intangible. Stewart’s performances have been supported by organizations that include The Shed, The Flea, Franklin Furnace, A.I.R. Gallery, Silver Art Projects, Marc Straus Gallery, Marble House Project, GALLIM, The Watermill Center, and the Brooklyn Arts Council.