Carissa Pinckney

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Preferred Performance Name: Honey Mojo

Website: https://www.carissapinckney.com/

Social Media: @honey_mojo @carissa_explains_most

Bio: Carissa Lee Pinckney is a Chicago based artist, producer and curator working in performance, sound, film, poetry and theater. She earned her BFA in Theater from NYU and MFA in Performance from SAIC. Is a founding member of Suspended Culture art collective, which has performed nationally and most notably at the inaugural bell hooks symposium. She is currently part of the independent curators international Chicago seminar. She was a 2025 High Concept Labs Fellow, 2024 High Concept Labs Artist in Residence and a 2023 Elastic Arts Dark Matter Resident. Her most recent work Thrival, an improvisational theatrical work exploring sonic technologies, has shown twice. Her writing has appeared in Mental Realness Magazine, and on Gray Area Stories podcast. The content of her work explores Blackness, intergenerational trauma and gifts, family archives, and mental health. She integrates recordings, writing, and Black Southern culture to materialize grief, isolation, and hope.