Tune in for an interview with Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere conducted by Meredith Kooi about their exhibition Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere: As far as the ear can hear that is currently on view at Wave Hill in the Bronx until November 29, 2026. 

From the exhibition text: "As far as the ear can hear presents a selection of works by Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere that activate sound across landscapes of the Bronx, New Orleans, and the Sonoran Desert. Working in video, installation, photography, music, and performance, the artists explore the social dimensions of sound and the act of listening, linking distinct geographies and histories through resonance, gestures, and call-and response. Frequently collaborating with musicians, performers, and archival materials, Nevarez and Tevere use sound to trace the movement of memory across landscapes shaped by migration, environmental precarity, cultural transmission, and political struggle." 

The conversation take a deep dive into the works in the show—On Toscanini (2026), The Slow Drop (2020-22), Sonora (2017), and Parley (2015)—and addresses how sound, music, and radio traverse time and space, presence and absence.

Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere are interdisciplinary artists whose practice spans over twenty years of projects that actuate music and sound, radio, dissent, and the cultural complexities of the public sphere. The artists have produced works in video installation, lyric writing, performance, and photography. Their research interests lie in the intersection between music, civic action, and historical moments that resonate through distinct musical instrumentation and sonorous traditions.

Nevarez and Tevere have exhibited and screened their work at The Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, Creative Time, New Museum, and Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York; Manifesta 8/Spain; Museo Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Mexico; Casino Luxembourg, LU; Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Norway; Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria, and elsewhere. The first US survey of their work was presented at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 2016.

Their fellowships and grants include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Creative Capital fellowship, an Art Matters grant, an NEA Project Grant, and a Franklin Furnace Performance Art fellowship. Both Nevarez and Tevere were Studio Fellows at The Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program, artists-in-residence at the International Artists Studio Program in Sweden; Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY; Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA; Artpace, San Antonio, TX; Marble House Project, Dorset, VT; Interlude, Livingston, NY; and Antenna Gallery, New Orleans.

Nevarez, also a musician, studied Biology at the University of California, San Diego, and has taught at various Universities and Art Schools in New York and across the Northeast.

Tevere received an MFA in Photography from California Institute of the Arts and a BA in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego, and is Professor of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island / City University of New York.