Billy (b. London, UK/Cyprus), artist and writer living in Amsterdam, works predominantly between performance and text. Her work foregrounds the fictionality of the body and its splitness. The estrangement of established frameworks - linguistic, relational, narrative, historical - is at its crux.
This twist pivots around language and gesture as carriers of meaning; vivid and unstable. At its heart is a desire for transmission.
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Billy has shared her work at Tanzquartier Wien, Vienna (2026), Société des arts de Genève, Geneva (2026), Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, (2026), Plein Theater, Amsterdam (2026), CC Amstel, Amsterdam (2026), Basel Social Club, Basel (2025), jevouspropose x marytwo [Zurich Art Weekend], Zurich (2025), Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, (2025), prelude, Amsterdam (2025), Frascati, Amsterdam (2025), Les Urbaines, Lausanne (2024), ICA, London (2024), ROZENSTRAAT, Amsterdam (2024 & 2023), w Brzask, Warsaw (2024), koraï project space, Nicosia (2024), Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff (2024), Veem House for Performance, Amsterdam (2024), Stichting Perdu, Amsterdam (2023), marytwo, Luzern (2023), Juf Project, Madrid (2022) and The Place, London (2022). She has led writing and performance workshops at Les Urbaines, Lausanne (2024), Chisenhale Dance Space, London (2024), Siobhan Davies Dance Studios, London (2024), Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff (2024) and PUBLIC LIBRARY, Edinburgh (2023), and been a guest tutor on the BEAR ArtEZ BFA programme, Arnhem (2025).
Her texts have been published by Sore Anthology (Berlin, 2025), X-Philes (Warsaw, 2023), No More Poetry (Melbourne, 2022), Krzak Papier (Warsaw, 2020), and Modern Queer Poets (Pilot Press, London, 2019), performed at KW, Berlin (2021), K3 Tanzplan Hamburg (2021), Cell Project Space, London (2020) and U-jazdowski CSW (2019—2020), and broadcast on Montez Press Radio (2022).
She is the recipient of an Artistic Research Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library for 2025—2026 under the topic “Writing Trans Morality”, and is currently working on her first novel, the outcome of this research into the moralisation of the sexed body. Her performance “The Hunt” was granted the 2025 André Veltkamp Prize.
She is a graduate of the SNDO, Amsterdam, and Edinburgh School of Architecture, and studied at the Studio of Spatial Activities, Warsaw.