Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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RESUME
I’m a queer visual artist in Chicago who explores underseen LGBTQ+ communities and archives through photo, film, and collage. My work has screened internationally and appeared in The New York Times, The Economist, The Atlantic, WIRED, The Baffler, and many other publications. I’m a 2024 MacDowell Fellow in Visual Arts and a 2024 Artist in Residence at Latitude.
Developed over several years, my Beautiful By Night documentary photo series and film focuses on three older drag performers in San Francisco and explores issues of identity and labor. The project was featured in publications including Mother Jones and The Washington Post and in screenings and exhibitions at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF) and the Tenderloin Museum (SF). It was also the focus of a 2022 solo show at the University of Michigan curated by Amanda Krugliak.
I was a 2022-2023 HATCH resident at the Chicago Artists Coalition (CAC), where I developed and exhibited pieces from an archival LGBTQ+ collage series, The Personals. I received a 2023 Illinois Arts Council grant and a 2023 DCASE grant from the city of Chicago to support this series. Pieces have been shown in juried exhibitions at the Cleve Carney Museum of Art, Gerber/Hart Library & Archives, and the Chicago Cultural Center. In 2024, I was commissioned by the Pardon Collection to create a group of new pieces for The Personals and the project was featured on the cover and in a portfolio in the inaugural issue of the East Window Journal of Written and Visual Arts published by the East Window Gallery. Pieces from The Personals are currently featured in a solo exhibition at the Evanston Public Library.