Literary Arts

 

Terence Nance (also known as Terence Etc.) is an artist born and raised in Dallas, TX
committed to offering his work to the world as mandated by his ancestors. Terence exists on the
threshold of artistic form, wielding an extensive multidisciplinary perspective and approach
across his practice. This multidisciplinary approach comes naturally, cultivated from his
experiences and interests throughout childhood, to his formal education, and his own
autodidactic prowess.

Terence wrote, directed, scored, and starred in his first feature film “An Oversimplification of Her
Beauty” which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically in
2013. He wrote, directed, starred in, edited, and scored two seasons of his Peabody
Award-winning HBO series, “Random Acts of Flyness” in 2018 and 2022. He also partners with
filmmakers Jenn Nkiru, Bradford Young, Nanette Nelms, and Mishka Brown to form The Ummah
Chroma Creative Partners—a directors collective and production company. In 2019 they
collaborated with Kamasi Washington and debuted ‘As Told To G/D Thyself’ at the Sundance
Film Festival. Terence has also directed music videos for luminaries such as Solange and Earl
Sweatshirt.

In 2020, Terence released his first EP “Things I Never Had”. Through music, he seeks to heal by
achieving balance between masculine and feminine being(s) in his bodyspiritTM. In the tradition
of the beings from which he comes, rituals begin first with rhythm, and the spells of the rhythms
on his first album “V O R T E X” (released via Brainfeeder in 2022) are a balancing rod designed
to stabilize him as he navigates life on Earth. This balance is a matter of survival as the V O R T
E X of ‘life’ grows stronger, sexier, more profound, fun and foreboding.

Terence performed at the Whitney Biennial 2022 in September at the Whitney Museum of
American Art, NYC. The following year Terence directed the visual component to André 3000's
GRAMMY-nominated album “New Blue Sun”, a 90-minute film that complements the album's
themes titled “Listening to the Sun” and opened his first solo exhibition entitled SWARM at the
Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, PA.