St. Olaf College

Zackary Drucker

Contemporary
United States
b. b. 1983
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The disciple of a silenced, ghettoized community, Zackary Drucker, a young transgender artist/performer from Los Angeles, uses a range of creative devices that all strive towards the portrayal of bodily identity, her own and that of others, obsessively infusing visual media—photographs, videos and performance art—with acute, masochistic emotional compulsions. Conceiving, discovering, and manifesting herself as “a woman in the wrong world”, her work is rooted in cultivating and investigating under-recognized aspects of transgender history, locating herself in that history, and communicating her contemporary experience of gender and sexuality. Drawing from feminist and queer theoretical discourse, Drucker addresses sexual exploitation, transgender representation, and drag performance in order to explore relationships that facilitate queer/countercultural lineage. With self-awareness and agency, her work reinvents and redistributes relationships of spectacle-spectator, dominator-subjugated, and the domesticated-exoticized. She notes: “My work provides a place to construct myself. I revisit erased histories, perform and inhabit multiple roles and narratives, and document moments of, and in between, gender scripting a narrative that is inherently self-reflexive as it is constructed, deconstructed and experienced.” Zackary Drucker earned a MFA from the California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA) in 2007 and a BFA from the School of Visual Arts (New York, NY) in 2005. Her recent films include SHE GONE ROGUE (created in collaboration with transgender film director/producer Rhys Ernst), presented in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, “Fan the Flames” at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, “Made in L.A. 2012”, the inaugural Los Angeles Biennial at the Hammer Museum, and At least you know you exist, presented at MoMA PS1 and the 3rd Moscow Biennial of Young Art, among other notable venues. Her videos include One Fist, The Inability to Be Looked At and The Horror of Nothing to See, Lost Lake, FISH: A Matrilineage of Cunty White-Woman Realness, and You will never be a woman. You must live the rest of your days entirely as a man and will only grow more masculine with every passing year. There is no way out. She has also performed and exhibited her work internationally in numerous museums, galleries, and film festivals including the 54th Venice Biennale (Swiss Off-Site Pavilion); Curtat Tunnel, Lausanne, Switzerland; L.U.C.C.A. Museum of Contemporary Art, Lucca, IT; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Tromso Kunstaforening, Tromso, Norway; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Hammer Museum, REDCAT and LACE, all in Los Angeles. She lives in Los Angeles and is represented by Luis De Jesus Los Angeles.
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