Photo by Bobby Miller 

Phoebe Legere is an internationally acclaimed artist, composer, novelist, and underground performance legend whose work detonates the borders between music, film, visual art, and radical inquiry. Signed to Epic Records as a teenager, she exploded onto the cultural landscape, later sharing stages with David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, and Allen Ginsberg, while writing seven operas about female power and insurgent leadership. A celebrated film composer, her early hit Marilyn Monroe (Island Records) became a cult anthem, joining her broader catalog of iconic scores for independent and experimental cinema.

Her award-winning film The Gender Symphony (2024)—a fever dream of animation, philosophy, and gender alchemy—has seized 17 international prizes, including Best Story at the LA LGBTQ+ Film Festival. Her newest bilingual single 2 Pianos, released with a climate video shot at Yaddo, blasted its way to #10 on the Canadian Groover chart.A lecturer at NYU, Executive Director of the Foundation for New American Art, and a doctoral candidate plumbing Indigenous epistemologies, queer futurism, and post-catastrophic aesthetics, Legere moves with equal fluency through the academy and the underground. The recipient of numerous awards and honors for innovation in music, film, and socially engaged art, she is currently building a monumental public sculpture, crafting a new feature film, mounting a Bundy Museum retrospective, and completing a transdisciplinary novel.