2024
08/10 Previews for Happy Fall: A Queer Stunt Spectacular begin at the LGBT Center. Mikki is part of the Stunt Ensemble. LA, CA
06/11 Candy Pain performs with Choke Hole at S036. Berlin, Germany
06/06-06/08 Candy Pain will perform with Choke Hole at Kampnagel. Hamburg, Germany
03/23-03/24 Candy Pain will teach Wrestling 101 at Everybody Gym. LA, CA
03/03 The trailer for The Candy Pain Movie will screen at Weirdo Night. LA, CA
02/14 Mikki and Amy Von Harrington will host Collective Connections at The Airliner. LA, CA
10/02/23 - 01/07/24 Candy Pain is featured with Choke Hole in Jacolby Satterwhite, A Metta Prayer at The Met. NY, NY
2023
12/30 CA Medical Debt Super Smackdown with Candy Pain raised $19,512.10 to eliminate over $2 MILLION DOLLARS of medical debt for Californians in need.
07/21 Candy Pain performs with Choke Hole at the Globe Theater. LA, CA
05/12-8/20 Mikki will have a piece included at the Queer Threads show at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles
03/06 Mikki plays a tiger in one of Trulee Hall’s videos in, “Plays on Foreplays” screening at Rusha & Co.
02/15-02/17 Candy Pain wrestles in Choke Hole: Portal at Zony Mash in New Orleans
2022
11/05 Mikki did props and costume’s for Gina Young’s “Straight Play,” Part of the LAX Festival
10/06-10/08 Candy Pain will wrestle with Choke Hole: Portal at Area 15 in Las Vegas
07/14 PUNXURE Candy Pain will perform at Offbeat Bar
07/12 Candy Pain will perform at Gina Young’s Sorority: Thrust at the Lyric-Hyperion in LA
07/06 Mikki is AD on “Ca Commence Par” the new Kate NV music video
06/29 Mikki is AD on “Lizzie” The Paranoyds’ new music video
06/25 Mikki is in the feature film “Estuaries” by Lior Shamriz. Screening at the Roxy Theater in SF
06/02 Candy Pain will arm wrestle with Los Angeles “Lady” Arm Wrestling (LA LAW) at the Oracle Tavern in LA
05/08 Candy Pain will perform at Magiq Hour in LA
04/10 Candy Pain will debut a section from her rescently finished screenplay at Hey Chica! at The Elysian Theaterin LA
04/07 Mikki is AD on “Jean of Arc” Gap Girls’ new music video.
02/24-02/27 Candy Pain will be wrestling in Choke Hole the Reboot. New Orleans, LA
02/16 Mikki plays Lilith in Trulee Hall’s film, Ladies’ Lair Lake. Screening at Los Angeles Nomadic Division.
02/22 Mikki will star in House Hunters Season 10 Episode 6, “Wrestling the Market in LA”
2021
12/16 Candy Pain will perform at the Leslie-Lohman Museum for the release of “Remote Intimacies” issue no. 69 of The Archive. The Archive contains a fold out poster of Candy Pain Goes to Washington: The Game. NY, NY
11/16 - 11/30 Mikki has a piece for sale in an auction to benefit the Feminist Center for Creative Work.
11/05 Mikki did props and costumes for Gina Young’s, STRAIGHT PLAY. It will be performed as part of LAX Festival. LA, CA.
04/17-08/01 Mikki Yamashiro will be performing in Jacqueline Gork’s, “the input of this machine is the power an output contains” in Made in LA. Hammer Museum, LA, CA.
02/25 Candy Pain performs at Gina Young's Sorority. The theme is CONSENT.
02/12- 05/18 Candy Pain will have video and merchandise on display in Acadiana Center for the Arts’, “Slammed!! Sensationalism and Culture in the Squared Circle” group show. Lafayette, LA
2020
12/16 Candy Pain Goes to Washington, a live zoom performance as part of the Remote Intimacies series commissioned and co-organized by Leslie Lohman Museum of Art in New York & ONE Archives at USC Libraries
12/11- 12/13 The video, Candy Pain and the Candy Grrrlz Take on the Patriarchy, shot and edited by JJ Stratford will be part of the TOM OF FINLAND ART & CULTURE FESTIVAL: Plugged In
09/8 -09/21 Mikki Yamashiro and Machine McLaughlin’s online show, Normal Girl , on view at Ochi Gallery, LA, CA
08/14 Candy Pain is on an episode of Josh Wolf’s Wonderful World of Weird.
2/14 Candy Pain will be New Orlean’s Drag wrestling league, Choke Hole. NOLA.
2019
12/28 Candy Pain will be selling 2020 Calendars at Seth Bogart’s store, WIGGLES. LA, CA
12/22 Candy Pain is one of Sean Carnage’s, BEST OF 2019.
12/21 Candy Pain will be performing with New Orlean’s Drag wrestling league, Choke Hole. NOLA.
12/17 Candy Pain will be performing at Pearl C. Hsiung’s show at Visotor Welcome Center, LA, CA.
12/08 Candy Pain will be performing and selling merch at the launch of SABOTEURS Issue #5, which she is also featured in. Armory Arts, LA, CA.
11/3 Candy Pain will be in the Palm Springs Pride Parade.
11/1 Candy Pain will battle it out in the ring with Future Ladies of Wrestling in Palm Springs Pride at the Ace Hotel.
10/24-10/27 Mikki Yamashiro will perform as The Intersectional Activist is Killjoy’s Kastle 2019: A Lesbian House, icebox project space, Philadelphia, PA.
10/19 Mikki Yamashiro will perform in the Installation, [ a kit of these some parts] x budget gym ] at Materials & Applications, LA, CA
10/5 Candy Pain will perform at The Tom of Finland Foundation’s Festival, Our Community Standards
8/11 Candy Pain will perform at Sophia Cleary’s Smile Knife at Lyric Hyperion.
7/14 Read about Candy Pain and her car in the Arts and Leisure section of the New York Times.
6/27 Candy Pain will perform and wrestle with Choke Hole at Superchief Gallery NY.
6/14 Watch Candy Pain get her PainMobile on Peggy’s Cartoon Up.
6/8 Opening of Mikki Yamashiro’s solo show, Herstorical Fictions at Leiminspace.
5/19 Candy Pain will be in the Long Beach Pride parade.
4/24 Candy Pain will be performing with Cole Bush at the World Premier of the, JT LeRoy movie.
4/12-4/14 & 4/19-4/21 Mikki Yamamshiro is part of Peggy Noland's team that created the Sonora Stage at Coachella Music Festival.
3/15 Mikki Yamashiro will have a piece for sale for the Free Alejandra! Raffle. All proceeds go towards her bail.
2/13 Candy Pain will have a Crushing Booth at Tashi Condelee’s Palentines’ Day at AllStar Lanes.
2/9 Candy pain and the rest of Future Ladies of Wrestling will have a wrestling match to benefit the Women’s Center for Creative Work. Tickets here
1/26 Mikki will have a piece for sale Sin Fronteras! a benefit for migrants at the border, East Side Cafe 3-9pm, LA.
2018
11/4 FLOW Sunday Smackdown at the ACE Hotel Palm Springs for Pride.
10/6 Candy Pain will perform at Queer Prom benefit for LGBT Senior Center.
10/1 Candy Pain is one of the Trophy Wives trading cards that comes with Issue 3 of Friday Magazine. Pre-order here.
6/9 Mikki Yamashiro and Machine Mclaughlin perform as Museum of Woman, as well as have 2 art pieces in the group show, Reading Room at Root Division.
5/31 Read Mikki's interview with Urban Outfitters.
5/28 You can now shop Mikki Yamashiro Crochet at Urban Outfitters.
4/13-4/15 & 4/20-4/22 Mikki Yamamshiro is part of Peggy Noland's team that created the Sonora Stage at Coachella Music Festival.
4/6-4/8 FLOW will be part of Palais de Tokyo's Do Disturb. Paris, France
3/26 Article about Candy Pain and FLOW in NYLON.
2/25 Filming for Seth Bogart's "Feelin' Fruity"
1/13 Candy Pain will wrestle in FLOW's Match of the Multiverse at Human Resources.
2017
12/2 Candy Pain will perform at SING FOR PUERTO RICO.
11/14 Candy Pain and the other FLOW girls will perform at the Hammer Museum for the UCLA Game Art Festival.
11/4 Mikki will be showing her series "Every Asian Woman From My Childhood" at Leiminspace.
10/7 Come shop,eat, drink and get a tattoo at this Pop-up for Puerto Rico. Mikki will be selling crochet and making food.
10/1 Watch Future Ladies of Wrestling and buy some memorabilia at Pretend Gallery.
9/29 Mikki is creating an installation for PERSON and will DJ.
9/15 See Candy Pain and the other F.L.O.W. girls battle for the title of Ultimate Multiuniversal Warrior. Live at Human Resources.
9/8 Watch Mikki Yamashiro on ABC's The Gong Show. She will be performing with Hyperbody.
8/19 Candy Pain performs at Gina Young's Sorority. The theme is PROTEST.
8/10- 8/12 See Mikki Yamashiro's costumes and props for Gina Young's Butch Ballet at
8/9 Candy Pain performs at Cruise with F.L.O.W.
7/15 Mikki Yamashiro will debut a piece for Gina Young's Sorority. The theme is PASSING.
7/9 Candy Pain performs at The Resurrection of Care at Gaylord Apartments in LA.
6/22 Watch Candy Pain battle for battle for the title of Multiuniversal Warrior on Telefantasy TV.
5/24 Mikki Yamashiro will have a piece for sale at the Fueling the Frontlines Awards.
5/18 Candy Pain is a last minute addition to tonight's Yes Femmes 4 Lez Gulls at Human Resources.
5/6 Candy Pain performs at her first Bat Mitzvah. Mazel Tov Beth Pickens!
4/14- 4/16 & 4/21 -4/23 Mikki Yamashiro worked on sculptures for the Sonora Stage at Coachella Music Festival.
3/24 Candy Pain earns a Purple Belt in Tae Kwon Do!
3/19 Candy Pain performs with LA Kings at The Satelite.
3/17 Candy Pain performs at the Gong Show Audition at HM157.
2/23 & 2/24 Mikki Yamashiro did the costumes for sSISTERSs, an experimental Musical. Performed at 24th Street Theater.
2/10 Queer Prom, A Benefit for Friends featuring decor by Mikki Yamashiro.
2/4 Re-Opening Party for Pyramid Records featuring art by MUSEUM of WOMAN
1/27 Candy Pain earns a Yellow Belt in Tae Kwon Do!
1/21 Candy Pain performs at Womens March Intersectional Breakfast before Women's March LA.
2016
12/31 Mikki Yamashiro and Machine Mclaughlin, under MUSEUM of WOMAN create an interactive installation for the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs for NYE.
12/12 Candy Pain performs at The Tower Hour IV. LA, CA
12/8 Candy Pain performs at LA KINGS presents FUCK YOU. LA, CA
12/3 and 12/4 Candy Pain performs at the Hammer Museum with Gina Young's Sorority. LA, CA
11/13 Candy Pain performs at Weirdo Night! with Dynasty Handbag. LA, CA