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Jeanne Vaccaro is a scholar, teacher, and curator of contemporary art and public practice. Her research and social practice engages the archives of sex/gender, race, and disability to explore the aesthetics of identity.[1]. Formerly the inaugural scholar-curator at the ONE Archives in Los Angeles – one of the nation's largest collections of LGBT materials – Vaccaro is Assistant Professor of Transgender and Museum Studies at the University of Kansas. There, is she also affiliate faculty for the Gunn Center for the Study of Speculative Fiction, and the Trans Studies Initiative[2][3]. She obtained her Ph.D. in Performance Studies at New York University under the mentorship of José Muñoz and has held research appointments at the Kinsey Institute, the University of Pennsylvania, and UC Davis.
Career
[edit]Vaccaro, alongside queer theorist and art critic Jennifer Doyle, is the recipient of a multi-year Getty Foundation grant to present, in 2024, their project Scientia Sexualis at the Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles; a survey of contemporary artists whose work confronts, dissolves, and reimagines sex and gender within the scientific apparatus[4].
At Human Resources Los Angeles in 2022 she curated Xandra Ibarra, Nothing lower than I which excavated the archives of performance artists Bob Flanagan and Sheree Rose to explore the interplay of race, disability and consent[5]. Vaccaro also curated Foucault on Acid in 2021, an exhibition of paintings and objects by Grace Rosario Perkins. Perkins’ paintings in this exhibition referred to mythology surrounding French philosopher Michel Foucault’s famous acid trip at Zabriskie Point in Death Valley as a prompt to interrogate how race and sex inform archival and desert imaginaries[6].
In 2015, she curated Bring Your Own Body: transgender between archives and aesthetics for The Cooper Union, and produced accompanying public programs and curriculum. The exhibit historicized the sexological and cultural imaginary of transgender through a curatorial exploration of the Kinsey Archives[7].
Awards
[edit]An expansion of early essays such as her 2015 essay, Feelings and Fractals: Woolly Ecologies of Transgender Matter[8], Vaccaro’s in process book, Handmade: Feelings and Textures of Transgender, considers the felt labor of making identity, and was awarded the Arts Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation[3].
In 2023, Vaccaro was awarded an Artist in Residence position at Headlands Center for the Arts[1].
She is also the recipient of the American Historical Association’s Alan Bérubé prize for outstanding LGBT public history[9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Jeanne Vaccaro - Headlands Center for the Arts". Headlands Center for the Arts -. 2023-03-02. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
- ^ "Jeanne Vaccaro". transstudies.ku.edu. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
- ^ a b "Bio". jeannevaccaro.net. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
- ^ "Scientia Sexualis". Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
- ^ "Xandra Ibarra, Nothing lower than I | One Archives". one.usc.edu. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
- ^ "Foucault on Acid | One Archives". one.usc.edu. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
- ^ "Bring Your Own Body: Transgender Between Archives and Aesthetics Exhibition Catalog" (PDF).
- ^ Vaccaro, Jeanne. "Feelings and Fractals: Woolly Ecologies of Transgender Matter". Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 21 (2–3).
- ^ "Jeanne Vaccaro". museumstudies.ku.edu. Retrieved 2024-09-18.