A Wharton graduate with an M.F.A. from Yale, Sarah Meyohas has impressive credentials — but it’s her extracurricular activities that put the 24-year-old artist ahead of her class. This Friday night, Meyohas kicks off a 10-day residency at 303 Gallery with a performance on financial markets, which she describes as a pseudo-lecture on the current state of affairs. (A related project is her cheekily named art-world cryptocurrency, one unit of which equates to 25 square inches of photographic print.)

For the duration of her stay, Meyohas explains, she will treat the Chelsea white cube like a “home office” for her “stock performances,” which involve her painting and trading in real time on the New York Stock Exchange. Every time she affects a stock’s valuation, she plans to record the virtual movement with a physical line of oil stick. “I’m bringing together being an artist and an economic agent,” explains Meyohas, who has also designed a pinstriped “business smock” for her character. “I’m treating the market as a medium that has as much flexibility as, say, oil paint,” she says. “The market brings together the extremes of the most subjective and the most objective. You hear about traders who do technical analysis, but a trader differentiates themselves on the ability to feel the market better. Given that it’s made up of a lot of individuals, this means the market can actually chart emotion.”