eliot k daughtry is the Director of Technological Arts and co-owner of killer banshee studios, a collaborative art lab dedicated to producing queer visual art, performance, music, and literature in Oakland, California. Daughtry is a polymathic conceptual artist with practices spanning drawing, painting, sculpture, alongside performance, sound, motion media, and writing. He has taught media construction, interaction, and design for over 30 years as a college instructor and non-profit workshop leader. His visual work has been shown in regional, national, international, and online galleries since 1989.
daughtry’s art studies began at age 7 in Richmond VA, with multiple workshops at Virginia Commonwealth University and North Carolina State University. His formal education was augmented by master woodcarver Robert Lydic, his Opa. Before attending college, he won numerous local and state level awards for his drawings and carvings. His studies continued at Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria (painting & sculpture), before graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (performance and video) and earning his MFA in media studies at California College of the Arts.
Shows in regional and national spaces:
including individual shows at ARC in Chicago IL; Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City MO; ABC No Rio in NYC, Richmond Art Center, Femina Potens, Pro Arts, and 21 Grand in the SF Bay Area. His writing and comics have been a mainstay of Microcosm Publishing’s series of Neurodivergent Pride zines, and his thesis “Robots:A Practical Taxonomy” became a published article in Make Magazine.
killer banshee, as a performance group, was an organizer with the Illuminated Corridor, a performance event series based in the San Francisco Bay Area from 2005 – 2011. They were included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial in conjunction with Neighborhood Public Radio. The studio did extensive audio and postproduction work on the queer cult classic “By Hook or By Crook,” an early digital cinema release. killer banshee’s original work has been shown most recently at SF Camerawork, Artists’ Television Access, Shapeshifters Cinema, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.