Bio

Gene A. Felice II is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and creative researcher whose work cultivates connections between communities, ecosystems, and emerging technologies. Through immersive installations, projection mapping, public art, collaborative research, and participatory events, he explores how creative practice can foster deeper relationships with the environmental and cultural systems that shape our lives.

Felice serves as Associate Professor of Studio and Digital Art and Associate Director of Community-Based Learning & Scholarship at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he directs the Coaction Lab, an interdisciplinary platform that brings together artists, scientists, students, and community partners through creative research and ecological collaboration. Informed by the dynamics of living systems, his projects often engage themes of water, migration, resilience, and place, translating complex ecological processes into shared experiences that invite curiosity, reflection, and dialogue.

He is a founding member of Biota, an ongoing interdisciplinary collaboration with dancer and choreographer Janice Lancaster, sound artist Kimathi Moore, and artist Nicole Dextras that explores the intersections of ecology, movement, sound, and immersive media. He is also producer of FlowILM, a biennial community arts event that brings together artists, researchers, environmental organizations, and the public through immersive experiences centered on water and ecological awareness. Felice is co-founder of the Algae Society, an international network of artists and scientists exploring algae as a lens for culture, ecology, and imagination.

Felice’s work has been presented at the Cameron Art Museum, MOXI Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Sussex University, and ISEA Hong Kong, as well as through the U.S. Department of State’s American Arts Incubator program in Alexandria, Egypt. In 2024, he was an invited artist-in-residence at the Museum for Loss & Renewal in Molise, Italy.