Park Nights 2026 presents hideandseek, an evening of improvised vocal performance with Shala Miller, Dorothy Carlos and Samantha Feliciano.
For Park Nights 2026, visual artist, writer and musician Shala Miller presents her work in the UK for the first time. Creating moments of harmony and dissonance through improvised vocal and string experiments, her new commission will echo throughout the newest Serpentine Pavilion designed by by LANZA atelier.
Shala Miller (b. 1993, Cleveland, OH) is an artist based in New York City working across photography, printmaking, video, writing, performance, and music. Her practice grapples with a search for self, internal tension and bodily memory. Recent exhibitions include the 59th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, US (2026); MMK Frankfurt, DE (2025-26); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US (2025); The International Center of Photography, New York, US (2025); and CPW, Kingston, US (2025). Her performances have been presented at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, US (2024); Artist’s Space, New York (2023); Performance Space New York (2021); among others. Miller’s artist book Tender Noted (2022) was included in MoMA’s list of 10 Favourite Photo Books of 2022. Her artwork is in the collections of MoMA, New York, US; the Studio Museum in Harlem, US; the Hessel Museum, Hudson, US; the Akeroyd Collection, and lumber room, Portland, US; among others.
Dorothy Carlos is an experimental cellist working across performance and sound installation. Her work uses amplification and digital manipulation to challenge conventional ways of playing the cello. She is interested in electronics’ ability to construct alternative realities and seeks to blur boundaries between acoustic and synthesised sound.
Recent performances have been presented internationally by the Bemis Center, Lampo; The Renaissance Society, Chicago; Fridman Gallery, New York City; e-flux; CNMAT at UC Berkeley; default, The Hague; FELT, Copenhagen; Rhizome; and the Chicago Jazz String Summit. Carlos’ practice has been featured in The Wire, The New York Times, Artforum, Bandcamp and The Quietus. She has released music on 29 Speedway and D.O.T. Audio Arts.
Claude Adjil, Curator at Large, with Liz Stumpf, Assistant Exhibitions Curator
