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Art Exhibit: Visibility & Remembrance
![V&R](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/vrexhibit.png)
Visibility & Remembrance: Standing with the Trans* Community
Art Exhibition curated by the USF Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the USF Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Alumni Group (UWAG)
Dates of Exhibition: November 17, 2021 - April 1, 2022; virtual exhibit is still viewable.
About: Visibility & Remembrance: Standing with the Trans* Community is an international art exhibit that centers trans* people as it invites artists to create and submit work that stands in solidarity with the trans* community. The exhibit runs from November 17, 2021 to April 1, 2022; these dates were chosen to honor two annual international events – Transgender Day of Remembrance (November 20) and Transgender Day of Visibility (March 31).
The exhibit celebrates and makes trans* people’s experiences more visible as we seek to combat their exclusion and erasure from various aspects of society, while we also remember the courage and resilience members of the trans* community have shown in the face of various institutions and systems of oppression.
Visibility & Remembrance asks artists to reflect on the experiences, representations, identities, and/or politics of being trans*. The thirty-two artists selected for the exhibit reflect a diversity of perspectives and experiences from nine countries – Canada, France, Germany, India, Nigeria, Poland, Switzerland, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Their work includes two-dimensional and three-dimensional art, film, and poetry.
Past Events:
To view recordings of most of these events, visit the WGSS Youtube channel.
- V&R Opening Reception and Artists in Conversation, on November 17, 2021
- The Power of Art in Social Change: A Conversation with Kalki Subramaniam, on January 18, 2022
- From the Olympics to Personal Fitness: A Conversation on Decolonizing Sports with Dr. Katrina Karkazis and Roc, on February 8, 2022
- Meditations on Blackness and Gender Nonnormativity: A Lecture and Conversation with Professor Marquis Bey, on February 24, 2022
-
Intersex Care with Dr. David Rubin on March 10, 2022 at 6:00pm EST
Opening remarks by Finn Lefevre, from the V&R Opening Reception on November 17, 2021.
Artists in the V&R Exhibit
![Abinaya](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/abinaya.jpg)
Abinaya (India)
![Augustine](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/augustine.jpg)
Karen Miranda Augustine (Canada)
![Blackledge](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/blackledge.jpeg)
Al Blackledge (Florida, USA)
![Collins](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/collins.jpg)
Conor Collins (England)
![Cruit](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/cruit.jpeg)
Danielle Cruit (Florida, USA)
![Dr. Evilletown](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/evilletown.jpeg)
Dr. Evilletown (New York, USA)
![Flores](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/flores300.jpg)
NM Flores (Florida, USA)
![Gujar](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/monika.jpg)
Monika Gujar (India)
![Javaloyas](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/javaloyas300.jpg)
Alejandro Javalojas (France)
![Maca](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/maca.jpeg)
Kristina Maca (Germany)
![Majumder](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/majumder.jpg)
Puspa Majumder (Florida, USA)
![McCusker](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/macm.jpg)
Mac McCusker (Pennsylvania, USA)
![Midhani](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/midhani.jpg)
Rory Midhani (Germany)
![Parhar](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/parhar300.jpg)
Sukhy Parhar (Scotland)
![Pearson](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/pearson300.jpg)
Lee Pearson (Florida, USA)
![Prema](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/prema.jpg)
Silky Prema (India)
![Rambha](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/rambha.jpg)
V. Rambha (India)
![Ramesh](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/ramesh.jpg)
S. Ramesh (India)
![Ramota](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/ramota.jpg)
Bakare Olamide Ramota (Nigeria)
![Reichert](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/reichert300.jpeg)
Raphael Reichert (Switzerland)
![Rupakala](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/rupakala.jpg)
A. Rupakala (India)
![Santhiya](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/santhiya.jpg)
P. Santhiya (India)
![Sellers](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/sellerssquare.jpg)
Christopher Sellers (Florida, USA)
![Stenzel](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/stenzelsquare.jpg)
Annett Stenzel (Germany)
![Subramaniam](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/kalki300.jpg)
Kalki Subramaniam (India)
![Tobias](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/tobias.jpeg)
Marlon Tobias (Florida, USA)
![Varriar](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/saji.jpg)
Saji Varriar (India)
![Wing](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/wing.jpg)
Chloe Wing (England)
![Ziomkowska](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/ziomkowska.jpg)
Erwina Ziomkowska (Poland)
![Zlatar](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/zlatar300.jpg)
Ally Zlatar (Scotland)
![ZMC](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/brennan.jpg)
Eye (Florida, USA)
![Avery McLeod](/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/images/averym300.jpg)
Avery J. McLeod (Washington, USA)