CLAUDE CAHUN, SELECT WORKS
Her first recorded self-portraits are dated as early as 1912, when the artist was about 18. In the early 1920s, she would change her name to the gender neutral Claude Cahun, which would be the third and last time the artist changed her name…
SHIRIN NESHAT, TURBULENT, 1998
Turbulent is one of Neshat’s most critically acclaimed films, having been awarded the Lion d’or at the Venice Biennale in 1999. It was also her first foray into the realm of video, a medium that subsequently has played a major role in her artistic production…
CHERYL DONEGAN, HEAD, 1993
With Head, Donegan ushered in a new era of brash, low-tech performance video. Here she confronts sex, fantasy, and voyeurism in an autoerotic work-out performed to pop music…
BARBARA NITKE, RESURRECTION, 1991-1994
By the late eighties, the hardcore porn industry had left New York and moved out to California. People who were serious about their adult film careers moved with the business, but I loved New York too much to leave. I stayed behind and found other things to do…
AIDA MULUNEH, SELECTED WORKS
Looking to her background as a photojournalist, Muluneh uses this foundation of visual and symbolic language and blends it with the sentiments, intensity, and passion of poetry…
CLIFFORD PRINCE KING, KISS OF LIFE, 2022
In Kiss of Life, two Black people living with HIV reflect on their experiences with the virus. Raw conversations surrounding disclosure, rejection and self love are expressed through visual poetry and dreamscapes…
KRISTINE POTTER, MANIFEST
Created while working in remote areas along the Western slope of Colorado between 2012 and 2015, Kristine Potter builds on her previous investigations of masculinity and the American Soldier, here fixing her gaze on a parallel archetype, the American Cowboy…
MARLON RIGGS, COLOR ADJUSTMENT, 1992
In this documentary, Marlon Riggs carries his landmark studies of prejudice into the Television Age. COLOR ADJUSTMENT traces 40 years of race relations through the lens of prime time entertainment, scrutinizing television's racial myths and stereotypes…
OMER FAST, CNN CONCATENATED, 2002
CNN Concatenated 2002 is a single channel colour video lasting approximately eighteen minutes and composed entirely of excerpts from the American television news channel CNN…
AMBER BYRNE MAHONEY, FIRST HAIRCUT, 2023
The day we first cut his hair — I write “we" because it does feel something collaborative, doesn’t it? Something done together. There is the one with the hair, the one with scissors, the one saying: yes, please, go and cut his hair (and what right do I have?…
LORNA SIMPSON, CALL WAITING, 1997
In works such as Call Waiting (1997), she depicts people of color engaging in intimate yet incomplete conversations that elude easy interpretation but seem to plumb the mysteries of identity and desire…
MARIETTE PATHY ALLEN, TRANSFORMATIONS: CROSSDRESSERS AND THOSE WHO LOVE THEM, 1978-89
This series actually started in New Orleans on the last day of Mardi Gras, 1978, when by fluke, I stayed at the same hotel as a group of crossdressers, one of whom became a friend…
RYUDAI TAKANO, SELECTED WORKS
Takano Ryudai is widely recognized as a photographer who deals with the themes of gender and sexuality…
TOM BIANCHI, FIRE ISLAND PINES POLAROIDS, 1975 - 1983
Growing up in the 1950s, Tom Bianchi would head into downtown Chicago and pick up 25-cent “physique” magazines at newsstands. In one such magazine, he found a photograph of bodybuilder Glenn Bishop on Fire Island…
VIVIENNE MARICEVIC, SHE SHOOTS MEN
Vivienne Maricevic's desire to reveal, challenge, and transform the imbalance between the frequent representation of the naked female form and the rarity of male nudity is led to more than three decades spent devoted to the unadorned male form…
PAUL MPAGI SEPUYA, SELECTED WORKS
Sepuya’s work highlights the constructed nature of the photographic document and the performative space of the photographic studio, embracing the medium’s potentials for fragmentation and connection…
PATTY CHANG, MELONS (AT A LOSS), 1998
A performance juggling a narrative of an imaginary cultural ritual of receiving a plate at a relatives death with the act of cutting and eating a melon while balancing a plate on the head…
STEPHANIE DEUMER, SPOOKY ACTION AT A DISTANCE
Spooky Action at a Distance is a digital film exploring the objectification of women by means of their disembodiment. The video links AI assistants that personify female identities…
SONDRA PERRY, WET AND WAVY LOOKS – TYPHOON COMING ON, 2016
Using a water-resistant rowing machine filled with hair gel connected to three screen monitors, Sondra Perry’s 2016 Wet and Wavy – Typhoon coming on for a Three-Monitor Workstation engages the viewer’s body as a component of her piece…
HANNAH WILKE, S.O.S. STARIFICATION OBJECT SERIES, 1974
In 1974, Wilke began experimenting with performance art. One of her first forays into this genre was S.O.S. Starification Object Series…