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Performa is a non-profit arts organization based in New York City that has organized and presented a biennial of performance art every two years since 2005. The biennial is credited as the first dedicated to live art.

History
Founded in 2004 by art historian and curator RoseLee Goldberg, Performa is dedicated to preserving and promoting the legacy of performance art.

Biennials
Performa structures its biennials around different

Performa 05
Performa 05 commissioned artists included Francis Alÿs, Jesper Just, and Laurie Simmons.

Performa 07
Performa 07 commissioned artists included Carlos Amorales, Sanford Biggers, Nathalie Djurberg, Christian Jankowski, Japanther, Isaac Julien & Russel Maliphant, Daria Martin, Wangechi Mutu, Kelley Nipper, Adam Pendleton, Yvonne Rainer and Francesco Vezzoli.

Performa 09
Performa 09 commissioned artists included Guy Ben-Ner, Candice Breitz, Tacita Dean, Omer Fast, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster & Ari Benjamin Meyers, Yeondoo Jung, Mike Kelley, Arto Lindsay and Christian Tomaszewski & Joanna Malinowska.

Performa 11
Performa 11 commissioned artists included Tarek Atoui, iona rozeal brown, Gerard Byrne, Elmgreen & Dragset, Simon Fujiwara, Ragnar Kjartansson, Guy Maddin, Liz Magic Laser, Laurel Nakadate & James Franco, Shirin Neshat, Mika Rottenberg & Jon Kessler, Frances Stark and Ming Wong.

Performa 13
Performa 13 commissioned artists included Paweł Althamer, Rosa Barba, Subodh Gupta, Florian Hecker, Rashid Johnson, Shana Lutker, Ryan McNamara, Raqs Media Collective, Eddie Peake, Alexandre Singh, Marianne Vitale and Tori Wrånes.

Performa 15
Performa 15 commissioned artists include Edgar Arceneaux, Jérôme Bel, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Ryan Gander, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Juliana Huxtable, Jesper Just, Wyatt Kahn, Laura Lima, Oscar Murillo, Robin Rhode, Francesco Vezzoli & David Hallberg, Erika Vogt and Zheng Mahler.

Impact
Performa is credited with the popularization of performance since 2005.