Elle Pérez is an artist from the Bronx. Receiving their MFA from the Yale School of Art, Pérez primarily works in photography, using portraits to portray a mix of documentary, still life, and landscape photography. They have done solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1 and 47 Canal in New York, and have had artwork featured in venues including the Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney Museum, and the Bronx Documentary Center.
Please join WGSS for a graduate conversation with Elle Pérez on Friday, November 1st at 10:30am in 386 University Hall. The talk will involve discussing their career in photography, working with and casting peers of the LGBTQ community as photo subjects, using art to study gender identity and queer experience through the body. Please RSVP to Elysse Jones at jones.6187@osu.edu to attend.
They will also be giving a public lecture on campus on Thursday, October 31st at 4:30pm in the Wexner Center for the Arts Film/Video Theater. To learn more about the lecture, please visit the Wexner Center website.
These events are co-sponsored by the Department of Art, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies.