DEL LAGRACE VOLCANO
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EDUCATION
MA Photographic Studies, University of Derby, UK 1992
Photography Program, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA 1979-81
Visual Studies Program, Allan Hancock College, Santa Maria, USA 1977-79
MONOGRAPHS
FEMMES OF POWER: EXPLODING QUEER FEMININITIES, Serpent’s Tail, London 2008
SEX WORKS, Konkursbuchverlag, Germany 2005
SUBLIME MUTATIONS, Konkursbuchverlag, Germany 2000
THE DRAG KING BOOK, Serpent’s Tail, London 1999
LOVEBITES, Gay Men’s Press, London 1991
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
BELOVED MARTINA, Curated by Carlos Motta, Toronto, April 2016
DRAMA QUEER: SEDUCING SOCIAL CHANGE, Curated by Jonathan D Katz, Vancouver June 2016
NOBODY PASSES, Curated by france rose & Helle Grøndahl, Trondheim, April 2015, Oslo June 2015
QUEER IN THE CITY, Outburst Art Festival, Belfast Ireland Nov 2014
MIRRORS & MIRES, Patriot Hall, Edinburg, Scotland Sept 2014
CHARMING FOR THE REVOLUTION Tate Modern, London , Feb 2013
BODIES THAT QUEER, Leslie Lohman Gallery, New York City, October 2012
BODIES OF RESISTANCE: A RETROSPECTIVE, Birmingham, November 2010
sh(OUT), Museum of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland, April 2009
EVERYWHERE, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago, Spain, May 2009
RADICAL DRAG, Saw Gallery, Ottawa, Canada, October 2008
EXPLODING QUEER FEMININITIES, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden August 2008
JUST DIFFERENT, Cobra Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 2008
CORPUS QUEERED: Bodies in Resistance, Eskilstuna Konst Museum, Eskilstuna, Sweden, March 2008
EL CUERPO, (CON) SENTIDO: UNA (RE)PRESENTACIØN VISUAL, Zaragoza, Spain, May 2008
GENDER BLENDER, World Culture Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden September 2007
DAS ACHTE FELD: THE EIGHTH SQUARE, Ludwig Museum, Koln, Germany, October 2006
CORPUS QUEER: Bodies in Resistance, Transpalette @ Emmetrop, Bourges, France September 2005
INTERSEX 101: The Two Gender System as a Human Rights Abuse, NGBK, (Group Show) Berlin, Germany June 2005
PAS DE REGRETS, á la Galerie du Forum des Images, Paris, France November 2003
VENUS BOYZ, Zita, Folkets Bio, Stockholm, Sweden May 2002
FALLEN HEROES: Masculinity & Representation, Espai D’Art Contemporani de Castello, Castéleon, Spain April 2002
FLUID FIRE, Galleri Format, Malmö, Sweden December 2001
A KINGDOM COMES, Standpoint Gallery, London, UK July 1999
DUKE: KING OF THE HILL, Courtauld Galleries, (Group Show) London, UK November 1999-2001
RETROSPECTIVE: Del LaGrace, Magazin 4, Bregenz, Austria September 1996
DESIRE, Nordic Arts Centre, (Group Show) Helsinki, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Louisiana, Humlebæk, Denmark; 1995-97
STREET STYLE, Victoria & Albert Museum, (Group Show) London, UK June 1995
WORK IN SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
INTER*me: An Inter-Locution on the Body in Photography, Text/Cover/Portfolio, December 2016
TRANSGENDER AND INTERSEX: THEORETICAL, PRACTICAL, AND ARTISTIC PERSPECTIVES, Ed: Stefan Horlacher
FRISPEL: MOTSTÅND ÄR FRUKTBART, Text/Cover/Portfolio, Tidskrift För Genusvetenskap (37), November 2016
APERTURE magazine No 225, “ON FEMINISM”, “On the Way There”, Photograph
QUEER (R)AGING Text/Cover/Portfolio, LAMBDA NORDICA, April 2015
INTER: Erfahrungen intergeschlechtlicher Menschen in der Welt der zwei Geschlechter, October 2015
VISIBLY INTERSEX, p25- 32, NoNo VERLAG, Berlin, 2013
THE FEMINISM AND VISUAL CULTURE READER, Ed Amelia Jones, “HermStory”, Routledge, UK 2010
GLQ (GAY, LESBIAN QUARTERLY), Special Intersex Issue, Duke University Press, USA 2009
KOM UT, RFSL Press, (National LGBT newspaper) Sweden, 2006-2009
BANG, Swedish Feminist magazine, 2005-2008
IN A QUEER TIME AND PLACE: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural LIves, Judith Halberstam, NYU Press , USA 2005
QUEER THEORY, Moreland & Willox, Palgrave MacMillan, UK 2005
MATADOR, volume G Mutatis Mutandis, p148-156, Madrid, Spain January 2004
ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY: THEMES & MOVEMENTS, Campany, Phaidon Press Inc, UK 2003
COMO SI NADA, COLLECIÓN JUAN REDÓN, Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain 2003
(K)EIN GESCHLECHT ODER VIELE? Transgender in politischer Perspektive, Querverlag, Berlin, Germany 2002
HÉROES CAíDOS MASCULINIDAD Y REPRESENTACION. Espai D’art Contemporani de Castello, Spain 2002
JENNY SAVILLE: TERRITORIES, Gagosian Gallery exhibition catalogue text (“On Being a Jenny Saville Painting”), USA 1999
SECONDS SKINS: THE BODY NARRATIVES OF TRANSSEXUALITY, Jay Prosser, Columbia University Press, USA 1999
FEMALE MASCULINITY, Judith Halberstam, Duke University Press, USA 1998
RROSE IS A RROSE IS A RROSE: Gender Performance In Photography, Guggenheim Museum, New York City, USA 1997
QUEERS IN SPACE: Communities/Public Places/Sites Of Resistance, Gordon Brent Ingram, Vancouver, Canada 1997
NOTHING BUT THE GIRL: THE BLATANT LESBIAN IMAGE, Susie Bright & Jill Posner, Cassell, UK 1996
THE SEXUAL PERSPECTIVE: HOMOSEXUALITY & ART IN THE LAST 100 YEARS, Emanuel Cooper, Routledge, UK 1994
STOLEN GLANCES: LESBIANS TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS, Tessa Boffin & Jean Fraser, Pandora Press, UK 1991
LECTURES, WORKSHOPS & CONFERENCES
THE NON-CONFORMING INTER* BODY IN PHOTOGRAPHY, Documenta 14, Kassel, Germany August 2017
Open Seminar: Del LaGrace Volcano, Genusvetenskapliga institutionen, Lund University, 17 May 2017
Intersex Human Rights Conference, Workshop: Compliance vs Resistance, Vienna, 1 April 2017
RESISTANCE IS FERTILE, Cisnormativity Conference, University of Göteborg, June 2016
INTER*me lecture, University of Dresden, 14 December 2016
VEM ÄR HEN?. Lecture for opening of exhibition, Upplands Museum, October 2016
INTERSEX & HUMAN RIGHTS Conference Presentation, University of Surrey, 23 September 2016
INTERNATIONAL ILGA LGBTQI CONFERENCE, Athens, October 2015
THE QUEER BODY IN ART, GOTLAND PRIDE, Visby, November 2014, Belfast, November 2014
TRANS IN POPULAR REPRESENTATION, Keynote Speaker, Warwick, UK November 2013
TATE MODERN, “Charming for the Revolution”, London February 2013
IGLYO-T TIME Conference, Keynote, Kiev, Ukraine October 2010
JAFNADHR - Queer Youth Festival, Keynote & Exhibition, July 2010
QUEERTOPIA, Two lectures & exhibition, Norberg, Sweden July 2010
BODIES, GENDERS & SEXUALITIES, Conference, Bilbao, Spain November 2010
TRANSGENDER STUDIES AND THEORIES Keynote, Linköping University, Sweden, November 2009
CROSS GENDER & ETHNICITY WORKSHOP w/ Mojisola Adebayo & Me, Shout Festival, Birmingham 2009
HBT IQ, What’s Yours?, University of Örebro, University of Stockholm, Södertorns University, Stockholm Sweden 2006-2009
REPROGRAMMING FEMINISM: A QUEER AND PRESENT DANGER, London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, April 2006
POST PORN & NEW TECHNOLOGIES OF PLEASURE, with Beatriz Preciado, LLGF (Film) Festival, April 2006
INTERSEX 102: Living It, NGPK Gallery, Berlin, Germany June 2005
FILM, VIDEO & TELEVISION
MALOU, TV4, Swedish Chat Show, 2012
EMBARRASSING BODIES: Living With Intersex, Channel 4, UK Feb 2011
5TH EUROPEAN FEMINIST RESEARCH CONFERENCE, Feminist Short Films & Discussion. Lund University, August 2003
KOBRA ARTS PROGRAM, SVT 1, Sweden October 2002
VENUS BOYZ, Feature Documentary, (protagonist) directed by Gabriel Baur, 2001
JOURNEY INTERSEX Channel 4, UK July 2000 and March 2001
SEX AND THE CITY, HBO, Photographs from The Drag King Book, USA July 2000
REFERENCES:
Dr Ulrika Dahl, Södertorn
Dr. Jonathan D. Katz , Visual Studies Doctoral Program, University of Buffalo
Annica Karlsson Rixon,
Tomas Gunnarsson, Genusfotografen,