My artistic practice centers around an exploration of identity—particularly gender and sexuality—as well as interpersonal connectivity and spatial perception through photography, moving images, audio, and installation work. Drawing from my experience as a queer person, my work is motivated by an existential need to understand and express myself and to connect with others from a queer-feminist position. My intention is to create work that facilitates intimacy and encourages empathy, understanding, and critical conversations about queer identity and expression in a post-heteronormative society. As I pursue these aims, I continually explore what it means to live authentically and how visual representation plays a powerful role in that process.
My current artistic research looks at queer identity and expression in a post-heteronormative society and the power dynamics between public spaces and queer corporeality, very often with my own body. I explore this theme through not only my own visual art research and practice, but also performance lectures and curation.
Originally from the U.S., I have lived and worked in Vienna, Austria since 2012. I studied artistic photography at the Schule Friedl Kubelka für künstlerische Photographie (Class 2020/21 and 2021/22) as well as at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg.
Available for commission work, professional portraits, and artistic collaborations in digital or analog photography.
Atelier located at Kunstverein Kombinage, 1050 Vienna
Member of Bildrecht and IG Bildende Kunst
Associated with the Austrian Association of Women Artists (VBKÖ), Vereinigung Künstlerhaus Wien, and Queer Museum Vienna
Education, Grants, Residencies (selection)
2024
Artist-in-Residence Grant in Photography and Media Art, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, funded by the Federal State of Carinthia
2022
Certificate, Intl. Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg, funded by the Society of Friends Scholarship, “Queering Strategies” with Anna Daucíková
Workshop and residency with Rika Noguchi, EAU & GAZ Residency, Appiano, South Tyrol
2021
Diploma, Schule Friedl Kubelka für künstlerische Photographie, Anja Manfredi
Exhibitions (selected)
2023
MuseumQuartier Public Art, MQ Vorplatz (curated by Verena Kasper-Eisert), Vienna
Hautsache, Fotogalerie Wien as Guest in the Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin, European Month of Photography, Berlin
Queer Art Spaces Vienna, Kunsthalle Exnergasse (WUK), Vienna
Belonging, Foto Wien, Kunstverein Kombinage, Vienna
Vienna Art Week, Vienna
Luxembourg Art Week, Luxembourg
Meetingpoint, Galerie 5020 (with Salon Tongue), Salzburg
Fragmente, Lautlos Haus, Kunstfestival 1090 (with im Raum), Vienna
2022
offshore ~ money for the show, Haus der Kunst (digital display), Munich
Intimation, Solo Debut, Kunst- und Kulturverein Fortuna, Vienna
Open Studio Days, Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg
Was war Inzwischen, Ostlicht Gallery for Photography, Vienna
Hast du Lust?, Improper Walls, Vienna
Capturing Absence (curation and participation), Atelier Kombinage, Vienna
2021
Fuck Culture, Descriptive (Porn Film Festival Vienna), Raum D / MQ21, Vienna
OFF GRID Foto Festival, GREEN DOOR Artist Space & Gallery, Vienna
Together /AND Apart, Fotogalerie Wien (WUK), Vienna
Fleisch und Stein, Schule Friedl Kubelka & Surrounding Public Space, Vienna
2020
Feminine / Masculine, PH21 Gallery, Budapest (online)
Media
Die Brücke (Nr. 41/April - Mai 2024), edition.B. Daniel Hill. Fotostipendiat Klagenfurt.
Die Presse Schaufenster (Nr.26/3.9.2021), Sample work from the series Stoff (Fabric)
Photographic Publications
The Gap, #199, Drag Story Time, Cover and story portraits
The Gap, #198, Hyperpop in Österreich, Cover and story portraits
Rondo (Der Standard), #1165, Zu Diensten, Cover and story portraits
Les Nouveaux Riches Magazine, September 2021, Portrait of Chris Kroiss
Ö1 Gehört Magazine, May 2021, Portrait of Alexander Tschernek
BÜHNE - Das Magazine, Issue Nr 4, April 2020, Portrait of Miroslava Svolikova
Participation
2019 Dripping Ceilings (Michail Michailov)
2018 Poof Paradise (Berivan Sayici and Florian Aschka)
2017 Queer Revolutionaries…? (Florian Aschka and Larissa Kopp)
2016 Breakfast Epiphany (Georg Klüver-Pfandtner and Florian Aschka)
2015 Tweaked Breeding (Larissa Kopp and Florian Aschka)
Associations
Austrian Association of Women Artists (VBKÖ)
Queer Museum Vienna - Association for the Promotion of Queer Art, Culture and Artists