Cassils
Meet our artist
Lucas Artists Fellow
- Visual Arts
About
Residency Dates
- June 2016 – July 2016
- March 2016 – March 2016
- July 2017 – August 2017
- March 2018 – June 2018
- July 2022 – July 2022
Region
USA
Listed by the Huffington Post as “one of ten transgender artists who are changing the landscape of contemporary art,” Cassils has achieved international recognition for a rigorous engagement with the body as a form of social sculpture. Breaking through gendered binaries, Cassils performs transgender not as a crossing from one sex to another but rather as a continual process of becoming, a form of embodiment that works in a space of indeterminacy, spasm, and slipperiness. Solo exhibitions have been presented at such institutions as MU Eindhoven, the Netherlands; Trinty Square Video, Toronto; and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York. Cassils’s work has also been featured at Institute for Contemporary Art and The National Theatre, London; MUCA Roma, Mexico City; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; and Deutsches Historishes Museum, Berlin, Germany. Cassils is the recipient of a 2015 Creative Capital Award. Read more at heathercassils.com.