RESUME

SILKY SHOEMAKER

512-701-4888   |   www.silkyshoemaker.com  |    gladhander@gmail.com   |   SF CA  

ART EXHIBITIONS

SOLO/2 PERSON SHOWS

2024

Vidal Shaboom…by Jerome, LAST Projects, LA CA

Hungry Animals, Third Floor Gallery, SF CA

2023

The In-Crowd, with Adam Ansell, 4 Chicken Gallery, SF CA

Flying Colors, Haight Street Art Center, SF CA

2022

Queer Icons 2022, Third Floor Gallery, SF CA

Prime Specimens, with Kale Roberts, MASS Gallery, Austin TX

2021

HUNKYPUNKS, with Brick Shoemaker, The Shoe Factory, Milton PA

Ancestors, Commission for ArtYard Theater, Frenchtown NJ

2020

Queer Icons 2020, solo show, ArtYard, Frenchtown NJ

PA Billboard Project, Anti-Trump billboards with Brick Shoemaker, locations across PA

Elect A Clown, with Brick Shoemaker, Tailgate Projects, Tampa FL

2019

Thee Glorious Hole, with Samara Halperin, Last Projects Gallery, LA

Tears and Laughter They Know About, solo show, Collection RERT, Austin TX

Queer Icons 2019, solo show, ArtYard, Frenchtown NJ

2018

DIVAS, window installation, VOGUE Fabrics, London UK

2016

Strange Ambassadors, solo show, Transform Gallery, Austin TX

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2024

Venice Biennale, Disobedience Archive, Venice IT

2023

Proud+, Studio Door, San Diego, curator Jon Katz

Homo Angelicus, Snow Gallery, NYC

MothBelly, Art Hop, SF CA

Psychedelic Queens, Liminal Space, SF CA

RetCon, Liminal Space, SF CA

Soft Times, Small Works 2, SF CA

2021

Water Becomes Blood, WomanMade Gallery, Chicago IL

45 Library, www.45library.com, curator Andy Campbell

Stroll Through the Arts, Lewisburg Arts Commission Showcase, Lewisburg PA

2019

Queeries: Queer Artists and Identities, Sonoma State University Library Art Gallery, CA A Space Came There And Crashed, Magic the Gallery, Austin TX PeeWee, Alive and Fine Gallery, Milwaukee WI

2018 Jonesy’s PACK, KlowdenMann Gallery, Culver City, LA Proxemics, MASS Gallery, Austin TX Menagerie, Alley Cat Books, SF CA                       2008.                                                                                                                                  Y Que? Queer Art Made in Texas, curator: Harmony Hammond, Landmark Arts Gallery/Texas Tech, Lubbock TX 

SELECTED PERFORMANCE                                                                                                      

New Years Day Marathon, video performance, The Poetry Project, NY 2021                                         The Nancy Reagan Collection virtual book launch, video (with Samara Halperin/ Shaboom!), curator Maxe Crandall, Visual AIDS, NY 2020                                                                                                           The Lion The Witch and The Cobra, with Christeene, Barbican Centre, London 2019, USC 2024              SHABOOM!, performance collective with Paul Soileau and Lex Vaughn, at venues including: Kampfnagel Festival, Hamburg GE, 2019    Noordezon Festival, Groningen NE, 2018  Dixon Place Theater, NYC, 2018  OUTSider Festival, Austin TX, 2016-18, 2020, 2022  Fusebox Fest, Austin TX, 2017, 2022                                                                                                                                    CHRISTEENE, 2017-present, dancer/collaborator, at venues including:    Berghain Mainstage, Berlin GE, 2018       SOHO Theatre, theatrical run, London UK, 2017       Rick Owens Butt Muscle Release Party, Paris Fashion Week, 2017                                                                                                       Killjoy’s Castle Lesbian Haunted House, performer, dir. Allyson Mitchell, Philadelphia 2019/Toronto 2013 Trans Q Live, solo performance, Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh PA 2014 Ballez, dancer, dir. Katy Pyle, St. Mark’s Church, NYC 2013

SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS

HOT HOUSE GALLERY, curator, SF CA, 2022                                                           

The Gay Wax Museum, 23 person show of life size dioramas about queer history and queer possibilities, OUTsider Fest, Austin TX 2015

GAYBIGAYGAY, annual queer music festival, co-founder and producer, 2006-2015

CAMPCAMP Monthly Queer Variety Show, co-founder and host, 2005-2008

PILOT TV, DIY Queer Television Studio, organizer with Wu Tsang, Math Bass, MPA, Leidy Churchman, Lee Relvas, and more, Chicago IL 2004

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Silky Shoemaker: Billboard Project, The Brooklyn Rail, Oct 2020, Ksenia Soboleva When Front Yard Protest Signs Turn Into Billboards, Artplace America, August 2020    

RESIDENCIES/AWARDS

Art Omi Resident, 2024                                                                                  

Shandaken Residency at Storm King, selected resident, 2023