Artemis Beasts - Vilma Duplantier and Shelly Voorhees - NYC-based multimedia artists and activists exploring and creating anthropomorphic hybrids to bring awareness to speciesism.

By placing our self-made animal masks on our human heads and industrial sculptures on our female bodies, we become anthropomorphic beings - half humans, half animals. With altered vision, lack of air, and restricted movement, we imagine how it is to be in the place of another.

Our art is driven by the idea of interconnectedness. By invisible strings, humans are entangled with nature, animals, and the universe in one single noetic field. We are all one, affecting one another. That is why performance art for animal rights often mirrors human rights too.

Artemis Beasts was created in 2017, when our daily discussed topics on the importance of veganism for health, ethics, and a sustainable future wasn't enough anymore. We needed to dig deeper, recycle our thoughts through body expressions, sounds, sculpture, poetry, share them with others and seek for a change.

Advocating for animal liberation has become our purpose and the pathway toward our own freedom.
A.B.

Curriculum Vitae

Watery Spirits

ChaShaMa Gala, 42nd st. NYC  /  2024

Human Animal, Restore the Balance

United Nation, nard14 NYC  /  2024

Lost Bones - Artemis Beasts + AnarkoArtLab + Guerrilla Theater

Washington square park, NYC  /  2024

Red light District

ChaShaMa Gallery 24, NYC  /  2024

Free The Beasts - Solo art exhibition & Performance

ChaShaMa Gallery 24, NYC  /  2024

Consumption

New Justice festival, La Plaza Cultural, NYC  /  2023

Bending the reality

Diverse Universe Performance Festival Vol. 2„ Defibrillator, Estonia, Parnu  /  2023

Cruelty Towards Animals Through the Ages

Art Residency at Loovlinnak, Saaremaa Island, Estonia /  2023

Ashes to Ashes

Diverse Universe Performance Festival Vol. 1 „Defibrillator, Estonia, Parnu  /  2023

I want to be Free

Sculpture Garden at Loovlinnak, Estonia, Parnu  /  2023

Free Industrial Bodies - End Collective Suffering

Global Climate Strike, Foley Square New York, NY  /  2022

Industrial Bodies

Grace Exhibition Space New York, NY  /  2022

Re-awakened Wounds

Volume Up! Baltic Festival, La plaza Cultural New York, NY  /  2022

Women of Amazonia

Fundraiser auction in support of the Indigenous women of Amazonia, Brazil; Grace Exhibition Space New York, NY  /  2022

Inner and outer prison

Riis beach New York, NY  /  2021

Caged mind- re-cultivating the art of reflection

La Plaza Cultural New York, NY  /  2021

Animals in charge now

Art Basel  Florida /  2021

ABFArtFest virtual

Golden Ratio + Speciesism New York, NY / 2020

Diverse Universe Performance Festival  

Pärnu Town Hall City Gallery, Estonian / 2020

Chashama Art Gala 

Human Horse: From power to abuse / 2019 World Trade Center, New York, NY 

Emma Goldman Film Festival

Judson Memorial New York, NY   /  2019

Revolutionary animism XIII Anarchist art festival

Judson Memorial New York, NY   /  2019

Human Horse 

Rockwall studios, Queens, NY / 2019

Ban Factory Farms

Climate Strike, Battery Park, New York, NY 2019

Making forests Green Again - AB +  Anarko Art lab + extinction rebellion

Central Park, New York, NY 2019

Animalia

XII Anarchist Art Festival Judson Memorial New York, NY / 2018

Emma Goldman Film Festival

Judson Memorial New York, NY   /  2018

Bulls

Washington Square Park New York, NY /  2018

Maydays

MayDay Brooklyn, NY  / 2018

BunnyMast + Sphinx

Deepend Queens, NY / 2018

Unfamiliar Territory

Wall Gallery Queens, NY  /  2018

Phases 3

La Sala Brooklyn, NY  /  2018

The Other Side

Dumbo Archway Brooklyn, NY  / 2018

Yuko Uchida ‘Sunshower’ Collaboration

Ideal Glass New York, NY /  2018

Arti NYC Art Festival

Studio 7 Gallery Fort Tilden, NY / 2017

Arti NYC + Anarko Art Lab Art Festival

Patti Smith’s Secret Garden Fort Tilden, NY / 2017

Denilhilism

Wall Gallery Queens, NY /  2017

Guerrilla Art + Global Revolution + Anarko Art Lab Art Festival

Whitney Museum wall  New York, NY /  2017

Disturbed Minds Live in Distress

Judson Memorial XI Anarchists Art Festival New York, NY  /  2017