C H A P T E R N Y

Tourmaline

B. 1983 Roxbury, MA Lives and works in New York, NY

Education

2006 Bachelor of Arts, Comparative Ethnic Studies, , New York, NY

Selected Exhibitions

2022 52 Artists: Revisiting a Feminist Milestone, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (forthcoming)

2021 Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (forthcoming) Black American Portraits, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming) 7th Athens Biennale 2021 ECLIPSE, Athens, GR The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Born in Flames: Feminist Futures, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY

2020- Pleasure Garden, Chapter NY, New York, NY (solo) 2021

2019 Nobody Promised You Tomorrow, Art 50 Years after Stonewall, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Salacia, High Line Art Original Commission, The High Line, New York, NY Y’all Better Quiet Down, Leslie Lohman Museum, New York, NY

2018 Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

2017 Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon, New Museum, New York, NY

2016 Black Queer Brooklyn on Film, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Emphasis Repeats: Barbara Hammer, Andrea Geyer, Reina Gossett, and Alex Martinis, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Ground Surge: Communities Rising, Human Rights Institute Gallery, Kean University, Union, NJ Bring Your Own Body: Transgender Between Archives & Aesthetics, Cooper Union, New York, NY

Selected Screenings

2020 Salacia, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (online)

2019 Salacia, High Line Channel, New York, NY Salacia, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Salacia, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

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2018 Happy Birthday Marsha!, Outfest, Chinese Theater, Los Angeles, CA Happy Birthday Marsha!, Frameline, San Francisco, CA Happy Birthday Marsha!, BFI Flare, London, UK Happy Birthday Marsha!, Seattle Transgender Film Festival, Seattle, WA

2017 Atlantic Is a Sea of Bones, commissioned by Visual AIDS Day With(out) Art Alternate Endings, Radical Beginnings,” curated by Erin Christovale and Vivian Crockett Atlantic Is a Sea of Bones, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Atlantic Is a Sea of Bones, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture & The Studio Museum Harlem, New York, NY Atlantic Is a Sea of Bones, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL Atlantic Is a Sea of Bones, The Museum of Contemporary Art & ONE Archives Foundation, USC Libraries, Los Angeles, CA The Personal Things, HBO’s Queer Art Prize Award, 2017

2016 The Personal Things, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY The Personal Things, The New School, New York, NY

Selected Press

2021 Ligon, Zoë, “’We Deserve to Feel Good all the Time’: An Interview with artist, filmmaker, and activist ,” Spectrum Journal, June 2021. O’Neill-Butler, Lauren. “Tourmaline,” Artforum, April 2021. Trouillot, Terence. “The Best Shows in New York Right Now,” Frieze, January 29, 2021. Hudson, David. “Connections Full of Song and Color,” The Criterion, January 22, 2021. Lynne, Jessica. “Why Tourmaline, Chronicler of Queer and Trans Histories, Has Devoted Her Debut Solo Show to Self-Portraits of Fantastic Pleasure, artnet, January 22, 2021. Reid, Tiana. “Tourmaline,” 4Columns, January 22, 2021. Milovina, Tal. “Black Trans Liberation as History and Prophecy: The Art of Tourmaline, The Nation, January 21, 2021. Mannarino, Chiara. “Tourmaline’s ‘Pleasure Garden’: communing with past, present, and future,” Burlington Contemporary, January 14, 2021. Simonoff, Cyrus and Tourmaline. “Interviews: Earthly Delights,” Artforum, January 14, 2021. Scott, Andrea K. “Goings on About Town: Tourmaline,” , January 8, 2021.

2020 Mire, Muna. “Tourmaline Summons the Queer Past,” Frieze, October 2020. Mock, Janet. “The 100 Most Influential People of 2020: Tourmaline,” TIME, September 22, 2020. Seward, Mahora. “Tourmaline: ‘My practice depends on dreaming of what could be,” i-D Magazine, August 31, 2020. Lax, Thomas and Tourmaline. “America’s Monuments reimagined for a More Just Future,” Style Magazine, August 24, 2020. “Queer Artists and Thinkers We Should Be Celebrating Year-Round,” Cultured Magazine, August 15, 2020. “Filmmaker and Activist Tourmaline on How to Freedom Dream,” Vogue, July 2, 2020. Dry, Jude. “6 Provocative LGBTQ Short Films from Rising Filmmakers to Round Out Pride,” IndieWire, June 30, 2020. Cacciatore, Bella. “Dove’s New Pride Campaign Is a Master Class in LGBTQ+ Representation,” Glamour, June 30, 2020.

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Garcia-Furtado, Laia. “Tourmaline Believes in the Power of this Moment,” Garage Magazine, June 28, 2020. Wally, Maxine. “Tourmaline Reflects on the Power and Possibility of Black Art,” W Magazine, June 25, 2020. “Film Is Not Apolitical: These 9 Radical Filmmakers Have Something to Say,” Cultured Magazine, June 12, 2020. Williams, Kiyan. “In Films That Bring Underacknowledged the Fore, Tourmaline Fills in Gaps in the Historical Archive,” Art News, January 2020.

2019 Tourmaline. “ and Marsha P Johnson’s Fight to Free Incarcerated Trans Women of Color is Far from Over,” Vogue, June 29, 2019. Vogel, Wendy. “Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall,” Art in America, June 28, 2019. Fateman, Johanna. “Goings on About Town: Tourmaline.” The New Yorker, June 2019. Code Switch. “Some of the People Knew Magic,” NPR, June 26, 2019. Bowen, Sesali. “This Filmmaker Wants to Change How Black Trans People Feel about Themselves” Nylon, June 24, 2019. Bergado, Gabe. Brooklyn Museum’s ‘Nobody Promised You Tomorrow’ Exhibition Celebrates the Future of Stonewall’s Legacy,” Teen Vogue, June 17, 2019. Natale, Brittany. “This Exhibit Examines How a New Generation of Artists Remember Stonewall,” i-D Magazine, June 14, 2019. Cotter, Holland. “Stonewall: When Resistance Became Too Loud to Ignore,” The New York Times, May 30, 2019. Walker, Harron. “Filmmaker Tourmaline Announces Films About 19th Century ,” Out Magazine, April 25, 2019. Scott, Andrea K. “’She Persists’: An Unprecedented Show of Art by Women in ‘The People’s House,” The New Yorker, February 5, 2019. Wills, Raque. “Tourmaline Isn’t Just Telling Our Stories, She’s Putting Us in Museums” Out Magazine, February 12, 2019.

2018 Lyle, Erica Dawn. “Rediscovered Star: A Film About Marsha Johnson,” Art in America, September 17, 2018. Gallagher, Emily. “Filmmaker Tourmaline Celebrates the Forgotten Figures of Black Trans History,” Cultured Magazine, June 19, 2018. “Alternate Endings, Radical Beginnings by Visual AIDS: Tourmaline” Artist Videos, Artforum, 2018. Fiahlo, Alex. “Tourmaline and Sasha Wortzel,” 500 Words, Artforum, March 20, 2018. Schwabsky, Barry. “Without Warning: Margins and the mainstream at the New Museum’s ‘Trigger,’” The Nation, January 26, 2018. “Reina Gossett on Transgender Storytelling, , and the Marsha P. Johnson Documentary,” Teen Vogue, 2018.

2017 Johnson, Rindon. “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon,” The Brooklyn Rail, December 2017– January 2018. Clements, Alexis. “How Contemporary Artists Are Embracing the Ambiguities of Gender,” Hyperallergic, December 7, 2017. Mock, Janet. “Why I Celebrate and Stand By Tourmaline,” Allure, October 13, 2017. Roben, Scott. “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon,” Art in America, December 1, 2017. Cotter, Holland. “When It Comes to Gender, Let Confusion Reign,” The New York Times, September 28, 2017.

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“Tourmaline on Transgender Storytelling, David France, and the Netflix Marsha P. Johnson Documentary,” Teen Vogue, October 11, 2017.

2016 Meronek, Toshio. “On Trans Day of Remembrance, the Personal Gets Political: An Interview with Reina Gossett,” Truthout, November 20, 2016. Grant, Melissa Gira. “After the Transgender Tipping Point,” Pacific Standard Magazine, February 16, 2016.

2015 Dunham, Grace. “Stuck in Stonewall,” The New Yorker, November 2015. Marks, Jade. “Che & Reina Gossett,” Mask Magazine, April 2015. Ryan, Hugh. “Happy Birthday Marsha Shows What the Gay Rights Movement Owes to Trans People,” Vice Magazine, December 2015. Talusan, Meredith. “Buzzfeed interviews Reina Gossett & Sasha Wortzel about Happy Birthday Marsha,” Buzzfeed, November 2015. Tourjee, Diana. “Happy Birthday Marsha,” Dazed Magazine, December 2015. Walker, John. “Connecting Stonewall to Baltimore: A Conversation with Some Filmmakers Exploring Trans History,” Fusion, June 2015.

Selected Publications

2021 Hernandez, Jasmin. We Are Here: Visionaries of Color Transforming the Art World. New York: Abrams Books, 2021.

2020 Drew, Kimberly and Jenna Wortham, eds. Black Futures. New York: One World, 2020.

2019 “Preface.” In The Faggots & their Friends Between Revolutions, by Larry Mitchell. Brooklyn: Nightboat Books, 2019.

2017 Gossett, Reina, Eric Stanley, and Johanna Burton, eds. Trap Door: Transcultural Production and the Politics of Visibility. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2017.

2016 Bailey, Moya, and Reina Gossett. “Analog Girls in Digital Worlds: Dismantling Binaries for Digital Humanists Who Research Social Media.” In Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities, edited by Jentery Sayers. New York: Routledge, 2016. “Foreword.” In Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the AntiSexual Violence Movement, edited by Jennifer Patterson. Bronx: Riverdale Ave Books, 2016. “Trans Women AntiViolence Project.” In Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the AntiSexual Violence Movement, edited by Jennifer Patterson. Bronx: Riverdale Ave Books, 2016. 2015 Happy Birthday, Marsha!, Script by Sasha Wortzel and Reina Gossett (Star People LLC), 2015.

2014 “Introduction to the Drivers of Incarceration,” A Roadmap for Change: Federal Policy Recommendations for Addressing the Criminalization of LGBT People and People Living with HIV, Columbia Law School’s Center for Gender & Sexuality Law, 2014. “Justice For Jane Doe and the Urgency of Survival,” Chase Strangio and Reina Gossett, reinagossett.com, June 2014. “We Demand #JusticeForJane Because No One Is Disposable!,” reinagossett.com, May 2014. “Linking to Our Past,” In Solidarity, Vol. 1, Issue 4, Winter 2014.

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2013 “Happy Birthday Marsha Pay It No Mind Johnson,” Crunk Feminist Collective, June 2013.

2012 “A New Queer Agenda: Reclaiming Our Lineage: Organized Queer, GenderNonconforming, and Transgender Resistance to Police Violence,” by Reina Gossett, Che Gossett, and A.J. Lewis, The Scholar & Feminist Online, 2012.

2011 “Abolitionist Imaginings: A Conversation with Bo Brown, Reina Gossett, and Dylan Rodriguez,” Che Gossett, Captive Genders, Editors: Eric Stanley and Nat Smith, AK Press, 2011. “An Open Letter for Gender SelfDetermination in /at OWS,” Post Postcript Press, 2011.

2010 A Fabulous Attitude: Low Income LGBTGNC People Surviving on Love, Shelter and Knowledge, Reina Gossett and the Welfare Warriors of Queers for Economic Justice, 2010.

Selected Workshops and Talks

2018 Guest Lecturer, Disability, Dependency, Arts w/ McArthur & Zavitsanos, The New School, NY, NY

2017 Guest Lecturer, Sculpture, Performance, & The Social w /C. Zavitsanos, The New School, NY, NY “Visual AIDS: Day With(out) Art,” The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA “Visual AIDS: Day With(out) Art,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY “Waterfront Gathering,” Access and Community Partnerships, Whitney Museum, New York, NY

2016 Commencement Keynote Speaker, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA “Art + ,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

2015 “Rethinking Gender and Revealing New Paths,” Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY “Let’s piece our knowing together,” New Museum, New York, NY “Why Am I Hot,” Frieze Art Fair, New York, NY “We Canʼt Live Without Our Lives,” Arika Episode 7, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland UK “Speculative Planning Session w/ Fred Moten & Stefano Harney,” Co-organized w/ Constantina Zavitsanos, New Museum, New York, NY

Selected Grants and Awards

2021 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow 2019 Visionary Award, Stonewall Community Foundation Honoree, Performance Space 2018 Special Mention, Outfest Film Festival The Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender Variant Literature, awarded for Trap Door 2017 HBO’s Queer Art Prize, awarded for The Personal Things 2016 Ackerman Institute Community Award Recipient 2015 Art Matters Foundation Grantee Astraea Foundation Global Arts Fund Grantee

Residencies and Fellowships

2020 Ford Foundation Disability Fellow 2018-2019 Shandaken Governor’s Island

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2016-2017 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council: Workspace Residency, New York, NY 2014-2018 Activist in Residence, Center for Research on Women, New York, NY 2012-2013 Queer/Art/Mentorship Fellow, New York, NY

Public Collections

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Modern Art, New York National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Tate, London

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