C/V
Multidisciplinary Artist
Exploring the frequencies that connect us.
Moving Image-Music-Poetry-Live Performance-Immersive Media

Zarah CabaÑAS

  • NYU Tandon School of Engineering - M.S. Candidate, Management of Technology

  • NYU Tisch School of the Arts - B.F.A. Film/TV Production

Education

Select Live Visuals and Commissions

  • A Roots Picnic Experience: A Great Night in Hip Hop @ The Hollywood Bowl
    With The Roots, De La Soul, Nas, June 2026

  • The Roots @ One Music Festival
    With Mary J. Blige, Busta Rhymes, Havoc @ Piedmont Park, Atlanta GA, Oct 2025

  • Class of 1995 @ The Hollywood Bowl
    With The Roots, Lil’ Kim, Redman & Method Man, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, DJ Quik, Raekwon, E-40, Goodie Mob, Havoc of Mobb Deep, June 2025

  • The Roots Picnic - Headlining Sets with The Roots + Guests, 2015 - present
    Philadelphia, PA

    • 2026 - De La Soul, T.I.

    • 2025 - Lenny Kravitz

    • 2024 - Lil Wayne

    • 2022 - Mary J. Blige

    • 2019 - HER, Bilal, Lil Baby

    • 2018 - Jam Session with Dave Chappelle

    • 2017 - Pharrell, Lil Wayne, Solange

    • 2016 - Usher

    • 2015 - Erykah Badu

  • Guerilla Toss | “Psychosis is just a Number” Video Art Promos | SubPop Records May 2025

  • Guerilla Toss | Record Release Show @ Bethel Woods Center for the Arts | Bethel, NY Oct 2024

  • The Hollywood Bowl | Love of My Life Tour, Los Angeles, CA June 2024
    With The Roots and Queen Latifah

  • Dave Chappelle | Residency @ Madison Square Garden | New York, NY Aug 2023
    With Justin Timberlake, Burna Boy, Nas, John Mayer, Ludacris, Busta Rhymes, The Roots, De La Soul, Common

  • Blue Man Group/Cirque Du Soleil | BMG World Tour Video Design 2021-2022

  • Essence Festival | With The Roots, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott | New Orleans, NY July 2018

  • Dave Chappelle | Residency @ Madison Square Garden | New York, NY Aug 2017
    With The Roots, Childish Gambino, Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, Yasiin Bey, Chance the Rapper, Ice Cube, Common, Lil Wayne, Kendrick Lamar

  • Dave Chappelle | Residency @ Radio City Music Hall | New York, NY July 2014
    With The Roots, Mos Def

  • America’s Got Talent | Season Finale with Blue Man Group | “Zygote Finale” | New Jersey Sep 2012

  • Blue Man Group | “Zygote Finale” | Original multichannel design for North American Tour 2010

  • Blue Man Group | How to be a Megastar Tour | “Rock and Go” 2008

  • DJ Tiesto / Blue Man Group | “No More Heroes” | New York, NY May 2007

Select Exhibitions, Residencies, and Projects

  • Callicoon Artwalk | Callicoon Theater | “City Poems: Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo” | Callicoon, NY, Oct 2024

  • Catskill Art Space | Fantastical Films Screening | “Cake Out, Make Out” | Livingston Manor, NY, Nov 2023

  • Deep Water Literary Festival | Ruffed Grouse Gallery | “White Walled World” | Narrowsburg, NY, June 2023

  • International Poetry Film Festival | “White Walled World” | Los Angeles, CA, April 2023

  • American Herbalists Guild | “Forest Bathing: A Shinrin Yoku Experience | Bethesda, MD, Oct 2022

  • Primavera Film Festival | “White Walled World” | Barcelona, Spain, June 2022

  • Bric Jazz Festival | With Cousin from Another Planet | Brooklyn, NY, Oct 2019

  • Atrium @ Lincoln Center | With Cousin from Another Planet | New York, NY, Sep 2019

  • Knockdown Center | With Plan 23 | Brooklyn, NY May 2017

  • Dance Party TV | Screening at The Office for Creative Research | New York, NY Jan 2016

  • Time Capsules to Space  | Here Arts Center | New York, NY, April 2011

  • Cosmonoise Festival  | “Cosmic Poetry” | St. Petersburg, NY, Oct 2009

  • FIGMENT Festival  | With Zero Gravity Thinkers | NYC, Sep 2009

  • American Museum of Natural History | One Step Beyond | New York, NY, Sep 2009

  • The White Party | Platinum | Kaliningrad, Russia, Aug 2009

  • Experimental Television Center | Video Art Residency | Owego, NY July 2008

  • EyeWash Video Series | With Forward Motion Theater |  Brooklyn, NY, Jan 2006 - Dec 2008

  • Apositsia International Music Festival | St. Petersburg, Russia, Sep 2007

  • The Place | St. Petersburg, Russia, Sep 2007

  • Territoria Festival | With Tonearm | Moscow, Russia, Oct 2006

  • First Run Festival @ Lincoln Center | “City Poems: Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo” | New York, NY, June 2003

Select Music Performances

  • WJFF Fundraiser Liberation Station Live | Zarah Cabañas @ The Parlor | Narrowsburg, NY Mar 2026

  • Bethel Woods Center for the Arts | Pond Wave @ Horizon Happy Hour | Bethel, NY July 2025

  • New Memories | City and Forest @ First Friday | Parksville, NY Aug 2024

  • Bethel Woods Center for the Arts | City and Forest @ Horizon Happy Hour | Bethel, NY June 2024

  • New Memories | Pond Wave @ Spring Bazaar | Parksville, NY May 2024

  • New Memories | Pond Wave @ First Friday | Parksville, NY April 2024

  • City and Forest @ Cabernet Franks | Parksville, NY Feb 2024

  • Deep Water Literary Festival | Pond Wave @ 108 Main | Narrowsburg, NY June 2023

  • CBGBs | Pants Avengers | New York, NY Sep 2006

Publications, Discography, and Press

  • Artkill Catskill Magazine | Zarah Cabañas: In the Ether | Interview, July 2026: 2-8

  • City and Forest.  “I Can’t Wait” Space Acres (2022): songwriter, composer, synth, vocalist

  • City and Forest.  “Indigo”  Space Acres (2020): songwriter, composer, vocalist

  • Zarah Cabañas.  “Old Boyfriend”  Litt Magazine #002 (2024): 14

  • American Herbalists Guild | Symposium Podcast | Interview, Aug 2022

  • Broadly Entertaining | Woman of the Week Podcast | Interview, Sep 2021

  • Zarah Cabañas.  “Feedback, Forests, and Cosmic Beans”  OCR Journal #002 (2016): 129-135

  • Zarah Cabañas.  “The Noise is Where I’ll Be”  OCR Journal #001 (2015): 48-49.

  • VJ Lady Firefly. “Noise Flowers” OCR Journal #001 (2015): 79-84.

  • Zarah Cabañas.  (2009, Feb 1).  Respect Your VJ.  Retrieved from www.respectyourvj.net

  • Zarah Cabañas and Sea Peoples.  “Glasswebs”  Eyewash 3 DVD (2008)

Lectures, Workshops, and Conferences

  • New York State Association of Independent Schools | Starting a Media Arts Program | Presenter, April 2023

  • American Herbalists Guild 33rd Symposium | Virtual Forest Baths | Presenter, Oct 2022

  • Boston University | Media Production (Graduate Course) | Guest Lecturer, Oct 2021

  • New York University | Stepping Up Your Online Presence | Lecturer, Sep 2020 -March 2021

  • New York University | Meet NYU Storytelling Summit  | Panelist, Aug 2019

  • New York University | Tisch School of the Arts: Art of the VJ Workshop | Lecturer, Sep - Nov 2018

  • New York University | Tisch School of the Arts: Video Performance Art | Guest Lecturer, Jan 2013 - Dec 2017

  • School of Visual Arts | Intro to Animation | Guest Lecturer, Sep 2014

Teaching and Selected Professional Experience

  • Space Acres Studios | Co-Founder and Creative Director | 2012 - Present

  • Macmillan Learning | Integrated Communications Manager | 2026 - present

  • Homestead School | Consultant and Founding Faculty Member | 2021 - 2026

  • New York University | Digital Media Strategist and Video Producer | 2018 - 2021

  • The Office for Creative Research | Studio and Operations Manager | 2014 - 2017

  • Manhattan Neighborhood Network | Faculty Member | 2016 - 2018

    Blue Man Group | Creative Director, Video Production Director | 2007 - 2013, 2021 -2022