Visual & Studio Arts Performance Kris Grey

In conjunction with the exhibition Audience/Camera/Performer, on view at The Gallery at the Heimbold Visual Arts Center from November 29, 2021 – February 20, 2022, we are planning a campus-wide public program of live solo performances and lectures featuring each of the five artists in the exhibitions. Kris Grey will begin the public programming with a performance of their on-going Untitled (with torso), a captivating work in which Grey interacts with the plaster cast of their presurgical torso installed in the gallery. Grey, a self-described gender-queer artist, considers the body cast “a mask and portal to their former embodiment.

Image courtesy the artist with Louise O'Rourke

Kris Grey is a New York City based transgender artist who uses their body as raw material, often presenting themselves in states of extreme vulnerability as an invitation to experience transcendence or discover hidden queer histories. Grey’s cultural work includes curatorial projects, performance,…