Toshi Reagon, 2018 US Artist Fellow

Toshi Reagon is currently a Met Museum Civic Practice Fellow and a Bowdoin College Joseph McKeen Visiting Fellow.  She received the APAP Award for Merit in the Performing Arts in 2021 and was a recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in Music. She co-composed music for two Peabody Award-winning films.

Toshi is Andrew W. Mellon Creative Futures Fellow Carolina Performing Arts, and was a Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow in 2015.

Toshi and her mother Bernice Johnson Reagon, created two operas with director Robert Wilson. They developed “Parable of the Sower,” based on Octavia Butler's novel which debuted fall 2017.

She is a talented & versatile singer, composer, librettist, musician, music director, curator & producer with a profound ear for sonic Americana—from folk to funk, from blues to rock. While her expansive career has landed her at Carnegie Hall, the Paris Opera House, & Madison Square Garden,

Toshi can be found turning out at a music festival or local club. Toshi created WORD*ROCK*& WORD, a community festival that takes place throughout NYC every September. Toshi co-composed music for two Peabody Award-winning films & received a NYFA Award for Music Composition, the 2010 OutMusic Heritage Award, & The Black Lily Music & Film Festival Award for Outstanding Performance.