Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville is thrilled to present our culminating exhibition and performance by our 2025 Artist-in-Residence, Reid Arowood, titled, exo:bio.

exo:bio is an immersive installation and evolving performance that transforms the gallery into a synthetic ecosystem—a network of prosthetic systems, speculative flesh, and digital feedback. The project explores identity as a state of constant mutation: nonlinear, unstable, and materially entangled.

Over the course of the residency, they will construct a series of interconnected sculptural stations throughout the space: inflating and deflating bio-prosthetics made of latex and living materials; algorithmic mirrors that generate shifting interpretations of their face; soft machines that breathe, respond, and glitch. As the environment grows, it responds. In a culminating performance, the artist activates the full network, linking each element into a techno-flesh ritual of transformation and emergence.

Each day, the installation mutates—imagery shifts, new surfaces grow, forms inflate or collapse. The space becomes a speculative body: reactive, fleshy, and in flux. exo:bio draws from their ongoing practice merging performance, sculpture, and digital media to examine queer transformation, posthuman embodiment, and the aesthetics of shapeshifting.

Reid Arowood fuses elements of performance, sculpture, and new media to create multi-sensory experiences that push the boundaries of the hybrid body and queer identity. Their work has been exhibited internationally through various festivals, symposiums, and exhibitions. Recent highlights include Ancestral Echoes: A Decade of Bio Art, Ars Electronica Festival “Worlds in Progress”, the 6th International Exhibition on New Media Art , Art in Odd Places: NORMAL, and Future Bodies: 2022 New Media Caucus Symposium and Exhibition. They received their BFA from the University of Tennessee and their MFA in Art and Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.