E. Jane
E. Jane, also known by their performance name MHYSA, is an American interdisciplinary new media artist and musician.
Early life and education
Jane was born in Bethesda, Maryland in 1990. Jane graduated from Marymount Manhattan College in 2012 with a Bachelor of Arts in art history. In 2016, they graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in interdisciplinary art from the University of Pennsylvania School of Design.Career
They have participated in various exhibitions and festivals internationally, including Wandering/WILDING: Blackness on the Internet at IMT Gallery in London in 2016, Post-Cyber Feminist International in 2017, and Glasgow International in 2018.Jane was a 2019–2020 Artist-in-Residence at The [Studio Museum in Harlem], and they are based in Brooklyn, New York.
MHYSA
Jane performs under the musical alter ego name, "MHYSA". MHYSA is also a part of the music duo SCRAAATCH, along with collaborator "lawd knows". In 2017, MHYSA released their debut album, . In February 2020, they released the album NEVAEH for Hyperdub.The [New York Times] has said MHYSA's work contains a "wobbly, dreamy club sound". Others have noted the performance as referencing or being connected to 1990s R&B music. MHYSA has described themselves as "an underground pop star for the cyber resistance".