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Vaginal Davis (b. Los Angeles, CA; lives and works in Berlin, Germany)

has been included in exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago (2020), IL;

the New Museum (2017), 80WSE (2016), Cooper Union (2015), Participant

Inc. (2012, 2010), all in New York; National Museum of Contemporary Art

Bucharest, Romania (2009); Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art

Rijeka, Croatia (2009); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

(2008); and Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2006), among many others. She has

performed at the New Museum, New York, NY (2017); documenta 14, Kassel,

Germany (2017); Lafayette Anticipations, Archives nationales, Paris (2017);

Arsenal Institut für Film und Videokunst, Berlin (2017); GenderFest Athens,

Greece (2017); Creative Time Summit, Washington, D.C. (2016); Kunstverein

Hannover, Germany (2016); Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

(2015); Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, Scotland (2015); New York

University, NY (2014); School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois (2013,

2020); Participant Inc., New York, NY (2012); Southbank Centre, London, UK

(2012); The Getty Center as part of Pacific Standard Time, Los Angeles, CA

(2012); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2011); and Tate Modern,

London (2011), among others. Davis has been a visiting professor at Lund

University-Malmö Art Academy, Sweden; Justus Liebig Universität Gießen,

Germany; Goethe Universität Frankfurt; Harvard University; and New York

University. Her prolific artistic production also extends to her participation

in a number of bands including The Afro Sisters; Black Fag; ¡Cholita! The

Female Menudo; and Pedro, Muriel, & Esther; as well as solo projects. Her

zine publications include Dowager, Crude, Fertile La Toyah Jackson, Shrimp,

Yes, Ms. Davis, and Sucker. In 2009, she was awarded the Ethyl Eickelberg

Art Prize. Davis has hosted and curated the performative film event Rising

Stars, Falling Stars at the Arsenal Institut für Film und Videokunst in Berlin

for eight years.

Select works

Vaginal Davis

Leticia Corral, 2012

Britney Spears eye shadow, Wet n Wild nail polish, Afro

Sheen Hair Conditioner, Aqua Net Extra Hold Hair Spray,

water color pencils, and glycerine on cardboard

11 7/8h x 4 3/4w in

30.16h x 12.06w cm

VD201209

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Ina Claire, Helen Morgan, Evelyn Venable, 2012




11 1/4h x 5 1/4w in

28.57h x 13.34w cm

VD201211

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Ruth Chatterton, 2012



water color pencils, and glycerine on Cornflakes box

10 3/4h x 7 1/4w in

27.30h x 18.41w cm

VD201213

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Jane Powell/Deanna Durbin, 2012



water color pencils, and glycerine on matchbook

2h x 3 15/16w in

5.08h x 10w cm

VD201216

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Lilly Bart/Edith Wharton, 2012




2h x 3 15/16w in

5.08h x 10w cm

VD201217

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Lilly 1 Lilly 2, 2012




2h x 3 15/16w in

5.08h x 10w cm

VD201218

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Hildegard, 2012




2h x 3 15/16w in

5.08h x 10w cm

VD201219

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Barbara Bel Geddes, 2012




7 7/8h x 5 1/8w in

20h x 13.02w cm

VD201228

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The Star Boarder, 2017

watercolor pencil, nail varnish, lip stain, eye shadow, glycerin,

hydrogen peroxide, witch hazel, coconut oil, cocoa

butter, perfume, hairspray, Anacin Fast Pain Relief Tablets,

Excedrin Migraine & Headache Tablets, Lydia E. Pinkham

Women’s Compound and Health Tonic

1 15/16h x 2 5/8w in

4.92h x 6.67w cm

VD201707

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The Good Fairies, 2017


hydrogen peroxide, witch hazel, coconut oil, cocoa butter, perfume,

hairspray, Anacin Fast Pain Relief Tablets, Excedrin Migraine &

Headache Tablets, Lydia E. Pinkham Women’s Compound and

Health Tonic

2.10h x 3.50w in

5.33h x 8.89w cm

VD201709

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So Red the Rose, 2017


hydrogen peroxide, witch hazel, coconut oil, cocoa butter,

perfume, hairspray, Anacin Fast Pain Relief Tablets, Excedrin

Migraine & Headache Tablets, Lydia E. Pinkham Women’s

Compound and Health Tonic

3.30h x 2.20w in

8.38h x 5.59w cm

VD201713

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At the End of a Perfect Day, 2018


hydrogen peroxide, witch hazel, coconut oil, cocoa

butter, perfume, hairspray, Anacin Fast Pain Relief Tablets,

Excedrin Migraine & Headache Tablets, Lydia E. Pinkham

Women’s Compound and Health Tonic

11.70h x 8.20w in

29.72h x 20.83w cm

VD201801

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Faces East, 2018





Health Tonic

5 3/4h x 4 1/8w in

14.61h x 10.48w cm

VD201803

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Haystacks and Steeples, 2018





Health Tonic

11h x 8.70w in

27.94h x 22.10w cm

VD201804

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Heart and Sparks, 2018





Health Tonic

11.70h x 8.70w in

29.72h x 22.10w cm

VD201805

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Hecate - Thruple Goddess, 2018





Health Tonic

5.70h x 4.10w in

14.48h x 10.41w cm

VD201806

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This For Zahed, 2018





Health Tonic

8.20h x 5.80w in

20.83h x 14.73w cm

VD201810

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Madame Sidonie Verdurin, 2019

Mixed media on paper

11.61h x 8.27w in

29.50h x 21w cm

VD201910

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Mme de Saint-Loop, 2019


10.94h x 8.66w in

27.80h x 22w cm

VD201911

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Albertine, 2019


4.02h x 3.23w in

10.20h x 8.20w cm

VD201914

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Rachel, 2019


8 1/8h x 5 3/4w in

20.64h x 14.61w cm

VD201916

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Della Reese at The Cine Grill, 2020

Hamamelis Wasser with Mandrake, Henbane and Datura,

hydrogen peroxide, glycerine, food coloring, water color

pencils, discontinued over the counter medicine including

Anacin, Excedrin and Lydia E. Pinkham Health Tonic,

coconut oil, nail polish, enamel, and hairspray

3 3/8h x 2 1/4w in

8.57h x 5.71w cm

VD202001

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Carole Lombard, 2020






3 3/8h x 2 1/4w in

8.57h x 5.71w cm

VD202002

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Frances Farmer, 2020






3 3/8h x 2 1/4w in

8.57h x 5.71w cm

VD202003

Select exhibitions

Witch Hunt, The Hammer/ICA LA, 2021

Vaginal Davis

Unsung Super Heroines, 2021

painting on paper

variable dimensions

VD202151

$95,000

Vaginal Davis

My Mother Told Me, 2021

audio LISTEN

VD202152

$15,000

Installation view(s), Witch Hunt, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, October 10, 2021–January 9,

2022, featuring Unsung Super Heroines and My Mother Told Me. Photo: Jeff McLane/ICA LA.

HAG – small, contemporary, haggard,

Gwangju Biennial, 2021

Also shown at Participant Gallery, 2012

Vaginal Davis, Club Sucker, 1990s/2021, installation view. Courtesy: the artist and 13th Gwangju Biennale;

photograph: Sang tae Kim







Womanizer, Deitch Projects, 2007

Select publications

Shrimp, 19??

Published in Los Angeles, Shrimp is a one-shot off-shoot of Vaginal Davis’ previous

zine Fertile LaToyah Jackson. In her editorial for the zine, Vaginal asks, “If

everyone had a nice hefty foot in their mouth all the problems in the world would

be solved, right?” The title ‘Shrimp’, as the editorial explains, refers to a sexual act

in which “the licking and sucking of feet is not only encouraged BUT celebrated.

Boy feet/girl feet...to shrimp is to love”.

Aside from shrimping, many other topics are covered in the zine. Photo essays of

subjects such as The Goddess Bunny; the making of John Aes-Nihil’s film The

Drift; “Spew”, the Zine Convergence in Chicago; Hollywood Parties; Pedro Muriel

and Esther, or PME, Vaginal’s band with Glen Meadmore; bondage photographs

by Rick Castro; artist G.B. Jones; and the group Psychodrama.

Glenn Danzig of the Misfits is interviewed by Ms. Davis. He quickly begins to

irritate Vaginal who suggests, “You don’t want to get on a 6’ 6” black drag queen’s

raw opened nerve, because honey I didn’t just fall off the turnip truck.” Glenn admits

that he can see that. Ms. Davis also interviews Fugazi and this interview goes

better. Ian MacKaye tells Vaginal, “You’re my fantasy love goddess” to which

Vaginal replies, “This interview is getting off the track”. Excerpts from these two

interviews from Shrimp were featured in Outpunk # 6, a special compilation issue

of notable zines chosen by the editor, Matt Wobensmith.

Shrimp was published in the mid 1990’s. As the editorial states, “If anything in the

contents of this publication offends, be noted that this publication is produced by

a young militant african american drag queen who not only welcomes confrontation

but encourages it, so if you are so inclined to challenge a 6’ 6” ghetto warrior

raised in the projects of Watts, California, by all means make yourself known to

her”.

Fertile La Toyah Jackson, 2009

Info

Evil Taco: An Unauthorized biography, 20??

Vaginal Davis, Evil Taco: An Unauthorized Biography (exerpts)

The Chantrelles are Waning:

A Vaginal Davis-style Los Angeles Bike Tour, 2021

Assorted writings

Video

That Fertile Feeling, 1982

That Fertile Feeling (1982)

Directed by Vaginal Davis

8 minutes 28 seconds

Fertile LaToyah Jackson is always having babies! In a race

against time and set to a disco soundtrack, Jackson and Vaginal

Davis rush to the hospital to deliver that baby. After being

turned away for not having health insurance, the two dash to

New Boyfriend’s house, where Jackson delivers one baby after

another. For the denouement, Fertile LaToyah Jackson hits the

asphalt and skates carefree through a parking lot.

Watch in full:

[LINK]

Designy Living, 1993

Designy Living (1993)


Cinematography by Lawrence Elbert

Color video converted to digital


Edition of 6 + 2 AP

In an homage to Noel Coward and Jean-Luc Godard, three

friends sit on a bed in a sunny room, filmed in low saturated

black and white, talking about everything and anything. “No

one else is into punk rock anymore,” says Chops as he strums

on a guitar. “Just because I eat your pussy doesn’t mean I’m a

lesbian,” laughs Vaginal Davis. The black and white scene is

interrupted by abrupt switches to color vignettes prefaced by

the title fantasia expectorant. Other characters join to perform

brief role-plays before the film switches back to black and

white. The conversation unfolds like a distracting dream, jumping

back and forth between narratives.

Watch in full:

[LINK]

Cholita!, 1995

¡Cholita! (1995)

Directed by Michele Mills



“Once upon a time…three of LA’s hottest underground legends

decided to form a band!” So begins this short video jam-packed

with live footage of the Cholita! Features Alice Bag, Fertile

La Toyah Jackson, and Vaginal Davis. Directed by three-time

Emmy Award winner Michelle Mills, short clips of ¡Cholita!,

known as the female Menudo, show crowds of debaucherous

fans and friends, outrageous outfits, synchronized dance

moves, and scenes overflowing with joy. Across several live

gigs, the band performs “Chinga Tu Madre,” “I’m not a puta,

I’m a princess,” and their self-proclaimed anthem “Beans are

not enough.”

Watch in full:

[LINK]

The White to be Angry, 1999

The White to be Angry (1999)

Video transferred to digital

19 min, 22 sec

Written and directed by Vaginal Davis

Cinematography and editing by Lawrence Elbert

Watch in full:

[LINK]

Filmed between 1994 and 1998, it is strange how this short

subject pastiche seems even more timely. The film features

music from the Pedro, Muriel & Esther (PME) concept album,

also titled The White to be Angry, recorded in Chicago

by moody sound producer Steve Albini (Nirvana, PJ Harvey).

PME is the positive punk metal thrash art/music project of Ms.

Davis and fellow glamazon Glen Meadmore. Taking inspiration

from Pier Paolo Passolini’s short films, the elongated

anti-music video: The White to be Angry features three consecutive

vignettes. The camera follows a white supremacist

family and their skinhead son who flips through TV channels

in his confederate-flag-clad room, eventually landing on the

PME bop,”Riche Jewish Husband” inspired by Woody Allen’s

serious film Interiors. Another vignette features a Moors Murder-Esque

couple who commit hate crimes, tricking, seducing,

then killing a variety of queer individuals going about their

days. In the final scene, the skinhead son and his buddy get

cozy on the couch, proving that sexuality is complicated. Fun

tidbits: the house featured was also the home of Clint Eastwood

in the late 1950s at the beginning of his career; in the 1940s,

the house was the abortion clinic of the stars, and Bibbe Hansen

(musician Beck’s Mom) plays a rendition of Geraldine

Page’s role in Allen’s Interiors in Ms. Davis’ “Riche Jewish

Husband.”

The Last Club Sucker, 1999

The Last Club Sucker (1999)




Edition of 6 + 2 AP

Documentation of the last Club Sucker, Davis’ Sunday afternoon

music event (1994-1999). While the band Rizzo warms

up on stage, a single spotlight follows Davis through the crowd

as she dances her way to the stage to host the night’s event.

“I’m not sentimental,” Davis says into a microphone. “Yes, you

are!” says someone off-screen. Davis wanders outside to chat

with guests, make friends, and recount all the memories made

at Club Sucker.

Watch in full:

[LINK]

Berlin Stories, 2001

Berlin Stories (2001)

Mon Petite Tonkinoise, Frau Unter Einfluss, Gran’pa Sam, Die

nächste Neuste

Premiered in 2006 at the Forum Expanded section of the Berlinale

International Film Festival


1 hour 3 minutes 20 seconds

Edition of 6 + 2 AP

“Here we are on a roof in beautiful Berlin, New Germany!”

says Vaginal Davis, among friends and kids who hold up title

cards then dance in pairs around on the open roof. Soon she

disappears through an open skylight. Next, Davis interviews

Marc Siegal about the titular “Gran’pa Sam” Siegal. The two

shuffle through old black and white photographs of Gran’pa

Sam at glamorous parties with famous socialites like Andy

Warhol and Jimmy Stewart. In a third installment, Davis gives

loose direction to the actors as they improvise the next sex

scene: another threesome that ends in betrayal while lounge

music plays in the background.

Watch in full:

[LINK]

Fertile La Toyah Jackson Video Magazine,

1992–1993

Fertile La Toyah Jackson Video Magazine Premiere

Issue (1992)



Fertile La Toyah Jackson Video Magazine #2 The

Kinky Issue (1993)


1 hour 1 minute 33 seconds

Vaginal Davis launched her groundbreaking publication,

Fertile La Toyah Jackson, a bursting photocopied

zine in the late 1980s. The zines brimmed with local art

and music factoids, styling and photos by Beulah Love

(a pseudonym for Rick Castro, a collaborative partner),

and pieces of celebrity gossip. It quickly established

the queercore music scene by detailing Davis’ musical

projects and influence on the music scene. In 1991,

Davis teamed up with Castro to produce two VHS volumes

of the zine, which captured both the zeal behind

the zines while documenting Los Angeles in transition.

Watch in full:

[LINK]

Three Faces of Women, 1991-1993

Colour video converted to digital

1 hour 26 minutes


A melodrama is featuring three women as they navigate the Didion-Esque minutia

of their lives and age. Part 1: The Seduction of Lilith follows an explorative night

for a new divorcee and Mary Kay agent Lilith who meets a lonely Ph.D. student

who’s doing field research on divorced women. Over margaritas, she interviews

Lilith throughout the night, offering TERF-adjacent takes on womanhood and sex,

then ends the night by taking advantage of Lilith in an elevator. Part 2: Who Cares

About Elizabeth Wolff? A woman mourning her youth takes her discontent to the

dive bar, where she spars with various guests about the state of gender and privilege.

She corners a leather daddy and ruins Marie Antoinette’s wedding night with her

sour grapes cynicism. In Part 3: Dr. Christeen, Sexual Surrogate, a leggy couple

discusses their relationship in a chic New York apartment. Tensions rise throughout

the evening as they chat over Freud, lesbian bed death, and what to drink next. A

microaggressive mediator visits the apartment and attempts to therapize the couple

through explorative sex.

Behind the Scenes Filming of The Lollipop Generation (1991)




Edition of 6 + 2 AP

Tom Cruise Loves Women (2000)

Directed by Vaginal Davis and Billy Miller of Straight to Hell Magazine

AKA the Manhattan Review of Unnatural Acts


A hunky homoerotic montage of Tom Cruise—who loves women—is spliced

with footage from various movies with a particular focus on Cruise’s butt.

Davis collages beards onto the women Cruise poses next to on the covers of

magazines; a tabloid headline reveals that Vaginal Davis leaked a scandalous

secret in a tell-all.

de Rohan Chabot series, 2008

digital video

14 min, 53 sec


A filmic portrait of Vaginal Davis’s student Christophe de Rohan Chabot,

Davis taught in a performance art seminar at Weissensee Art Academy in

Berlin. The film opens with an extreme close-up of a blue eye, zooming out to

reveal the face of a young man with short blond hair sitting in front of a wall

plastered with magazine clippings of models and celebrities interspersed with

snapshots and text. Spacey synthesizer sounds mix with a hypnotic drum beat

and gets progressively louder before the scene abruptly ends. What follows

is a collection of short scenes featuring the same man singing, explaining

drawings in a notebook, and recounting a story, all in French.

Behind the scenes footage of homemade feature film The Lollipop Generation,

which took Canadian filmmaker and artist G.B. Jones, thirteen years to make,

released the final cut in 2011. Features footage of actors getting costumed in long

sleeve button-downs and oversized but still boyish trousers then shooting an

impetuous threesome bedroom scene.

Memory Island (2009)


Digital 24 minutes 44 seconds

Edition of 6 + 2 AP

Commissioned by Live Film! Jack Smith! Five Flaming Days in a rented world

Curated Curated by Susanne Sachsse, Marc Siegel, and Stefanie Schulte Strathaus

“I am beauty, beauty I am,” booms the echoing voiceover as a well-appointed man

in feathers and jewels takes center state, later framed by two pairs of feet around his

face like an aura. Two other men join him, draped in gauzy fabrics with the image

of a tropical beach at low tide projected across their bodies. These exotic creatures

alternate from tableau to tableau in glittering gems, sequins, and soft leopard prints

with rhinestones that twinkle across the screen while a tropical soundtrack warbles

in the background. A beachy, moody Vogue moment.

Dot (1992)

Video transferred to digital

15’18”

Written and Directed by Vaginal Davis

Cinematography, Camera & Editing by Mari Kano

In Dot, Vaginal Davis takes bad acting to new depths, channeling the acerbic wit

and alcoholic-isms of the poet and provocateur, Dorothy Parker. Something rare

is revealed in this film project—vulnerability—as she cannot hide her attraction

to her co-star Alfredo Botello who plays Mr. Robert Benchley—filmed in Davis’

streamlined moderne flat and studio in pre-gentrification Los Angeles’s Koreatown

neighborhood, also known as the Cheese Endique Trifecta. Designy Living, VooDoo

Williamson—The Dona of Dance and The White to be Angry were also filmed in this

location.

One Man Ladies (1996)

Vaginal Davis and Glenn Belverio

28 minutes, 58 seconds

Dr. Vaginal Davis co-hosts with Glenn Belverio of Glennda and Friends

streetside in Manhattan. They discuss Dr. Laura Schlessinger’s latest book,

“The Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives,” catching live

interviews with women walking around Manhattan. “Psychotherapy through

mass media, that’s the way to do therapy in the ‘90s; it’s non-elitist,” said

Glennda. They speak with three different straight women in various stages of

committed relationships. Each conversation is entirely pleasant and focused

on marriage as the ultimate romantic goal. “Third finger left hand!”they chant

as they introduce the concept of Neo-Conservative Chic while invoking 90s

talk radio hostess Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Joan Crawford, Suzy Parker, Phil

Donahue, Leni Riefenstahl, and others. Glenn Belverio is now the influential

director of MoMa’s Design Store and a fashion commentator for A Shaded

View on Fashion.

VooDoo Williamson—The Doña of Dance (1994/5)

17 minutes, 42 seconds

Written and Directed by Vaginal Davis

Edited by Lawrence Elbert

VooDoo Williamson—The Doña of Dance follows the life and times of

flamboyant choreographer VooDoo Williamson and her dance studio. She

inspires young ingenues through their struggles on stage and off. As VooDoo,

Ms. Davis plays a charismatic and deluded Caribbean doyenne/choreographer

and director of the Extemporaneous / Contemporary Inner City Dance

Theatre of Lynwood, helping troubled urban youth through a celebration of

the joys of modern barefoot dance. A Johnny-One-Note joke was taken to

its extreme, spoofing films such as Fame and Shirley MacLaine in Madame

Sousatzka. “Dance is the key to World Peace,” says one young student. Each

student’s challenges reveal the wisdom and principles behind Williamson’s

philosophy of The Dance. The film ends with a freestyle dance sequence.

Music

Ephemera

CV/ VAGINAL DAVIS

Born 1969 Los Angeles, CA

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 The White to be Angry, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2018 An Invitation to the Dance, Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR

2015 Come On Daughter Save Me, INVISIBLE-EXPORTS, New York, NY

Spring Awakening, Etherington Art Gallery, Kingston Ontario, Canada

2014 All Things Yayoi Kusama First Lady of the Polka Dot, Lamp Gallery, Sheros, Tokyo, Japan

2012 HAG, Participant Inc., New York, NY

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 Witch Hunt, The Hammer, Los Angeles, CA

Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea

Dear John, Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR

2020 Finding Our Way, Lumber Room, Portland, OR

Hollywood Babylon: A Re-Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, Deitch Projects, Los

Angeles, CA

2018 Breaking Wave, Participant Inc., New York, NY

Between, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

Everyday Muse, ltd, Los Angeles, CA

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

Chimera, Vaginal Davis & Louise Nevelson, INVISIBLE-EXPORTS, New York, NY

Donna In Avalon, Portland Museum of Modern Art, Portland, OR

2015 Clifford Owens, INVISIBLE-EXPORTS, New York, NY

Key Figures, Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR

Bring Your Own Body, Cooper Union, New York, NY

2014 Group Exhibition, Lamp Gallery, Sheros, Tokyo, Japan

2013 Nu Age Hustle, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY

Vaginal Davis & The Philadelphia Wireman, Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR

I Killed My Father, I Ate Human Flesh, I Quiver With Joy: An Obsession with Pier

Paolo Pasolini, Allegra LaViola, New York, NY

2012 Bloodyminded, curated by INVISIBLE-EXPORTS, The Wye, Berlin, Germany

2011 Notes on Notes on Camp, INVISIBLE-EXPORTS, New York, NY

2010 Stuart Sherman: Nothing Up My Sleeve, curated by Jonathan Berger, Participant Inc.,

New York, NY

2009 SMELL IT!, curated by Dietmar Schwärzler, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria

RE:akt! | reconstruction, re-enactment, re-reporting, curated by Domenico Quaranta,

National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest, Romania also at the

Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia

Spill Performance Festival, London also at Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University, UK

2008 The Way That We Rhyme, curated by Taraneh Hemami, Yerba Buena Center for the

Arts, San Francisco, CA

2007 Womanizer, curated by Julie Atlas Muz and Kembra Pfahler, Deitch Projects, New

York, NY

2006 Chinese Synthese Leberkase, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria

Not For Sale, New York University, New York, NY

2005 Founders Day: Jack Smith and the Work of Reinvention, New York, NY

2004 Fade (1990-2003): A Survey of African American Artists Working in Los Angeles,

curated by Malik Gaines, Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Visions of Excess and the Philosophy of Gifts-A Tribute to George Bataille, Akisoma

Institute of Contemporary Art Kodali Castle, Ljubjana, Slovenia

2002 Queer(ing) Warhol: Examining Andy Warhol’s Queer(ed) Performances, Riverside, CA

2001 Beyond Origins, Hellenic American Union, Athens, Greece

2000 Large Format Poloroids, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY

1998 Fluxus Tributep Beck & Al Hensen: Playing With Matches, Thread Waxing Space, New

York, NY

Outfest Gay & Lesbian Film Festival at Directors Guild, Los Angeles, CA

1996 Nirvana: Capitalism & the Consumed Image Series, Center on Contemporary Art,

Seattle, WA

SELECT PERFORMANCES

Rising Stars, Falling Stars, monthly performative film presentation, Arsenal Institut für

Film und Videokunst, Berlin, Germany

2017 Stealing Together, Goldsmiths’ Berlin Summer School, Berlin, Germany

Warhol Icon, Broad Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Mobile Academy-Drop Dead Gorgeous, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany

Parliament of Bodies, documenta 14, Kassel, Germany

Gallery Lafayette Anticipation/Archive Nationales – Art & Feminisms Edition, Paris, France

Think Film Congress Nu 5—Archive Constellations, Berlinale Film Festival, Berlin, Germany

Gender Fest, Athens, Greece

2016 Creative Time Summit —Occupy the Future, Washington DC

Magic Flute—a Film in Pieces Press Conference, Goethe Institute, New York, NY

CV/ VAGINAL DAVIS P.2

Bodies in Stages, Kunstverein Hanover, Germany

2015 The Magic Flute, 80SWE Gallery, NYU, New York, NY

Afri Papi, Diaspora Festival Internacional de Cinema Queer, Lisbon, Portugal

Twee & Sympathy, Utopias Art Festival/Turbines Curatorial Collective, Kingston,

Ontario, Canada

Some Other Spring, Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland

Perverse Assemblages, Queering Heteronormative Orders Inter/Medially, Carl von

Ossietsky Universitaet, Oldenburg, Germany

2014 Visuelles Dekolonisieren Congress and Workshop, Ort Filmstudio HBK, Braunschweig,

Germany

Hörspielforum NRW 2014 | Eine Veranstaltung der Film, und Medienstiftung NRW,

Koln, Germany

Performance Studies Dept, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Physique Tutorial: VD’s BM -Vaginal Davis is Speaking From the Perineum, New York

University, New York, NY

Wolf Moon Gathering/Girls Against God, MoMA P.S.1, Queens, NY

2013 Chew Disco-Homotopia Festival 10, Liverpool UK

Lesbi Tropicalia-Tea & Sympathy Tribute to Helio Oiticica Palmengarten, MMK

Museum fur modern Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany

Listen Up Feminist Festival

Ephemeropterae, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria

Living Archive Festival, Berlin, Germany

Decolonizing the “Cold” War /Be.Bop, Black Europe Body Politics, Berlin, Germany

Mammying the Archive, RSFS-We Must Have Music, Living Archive Project-Archive

Work as a Contemporary Artistic and Curatorial Practice, Arsenal Institute

For Film and Video Kunst, Berlin, Germany

Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo, The School of the Art Institute Chicago, Chicago IL

2012 Camp/Anti-Camp-VD is SFTD, Kunstlerhaus Mousonturn, Frankfurt, Germany

No One Leaves Delilah: A (W)rap on Race, New York University Performance Studies,

New York, NY

Tenderloin-Das Lied Von Der Glocke, Antony’s Meltdown Festival, Royal Festival

Hall, Southbanke Centre, London, UK

Wir Haben Kein Zimmer Fuer Auslander, Radical Cross-Currents in Black Berlin,

Humboldt Universitat, Berlin, Germany

Communist Bigamist—Two Love Stories, Art Basel, Kaserne Basel Tanz Theatre, Basel,

Switzerland

Camp/Anti-Camp-Queer Guide to Everyday Life VD is SFTD, Hebbel Am Ufer/HAU2,

Berlin, Germany

Communist Bigamist—Two Love Stories, Forum Freies Theater, Duesseldorf, Germany

My Pussy is Still in Los Angeles (I Only Live in Berlin), West of Rome/Pacific Standard

Time Festival, Getty Art Center, Los Angeles, CA

2011 Memory Island, Xperimenta 11: Contemporary Glances at Experimental Cinema,

Center de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Framing the Freakazoid, Goldsmith University, London, UK

Art, Music, Sex, Action-Trespass Parade & Festival, West of Rome/Pacific Standard

Time, Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA

Memory Island-VD Trashes TM, Tate Modern, London, UK

Piss Gottin Hat Angst for unsicherheit, After the Butcher, Made in Berlin Festival, KW/

Kunst-werke Institute For Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany

Die Untoten Life Sciences & Pulp Fiction Congress & Mise-en-Scene, Kampnagel,

Hamburg, Germany

The Whoracle et Delphi, Spill Festival Performance Tarot, Barbican Centre, London, UK

When The Curtain Falls, Martin-Gropius Bau Museum, Berlin, Germany

dejecta/protecta, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

2010 VD on EG- Vaginal Davis does Eugenie de Guerin- French Diarist, Staedelschule,

Frankfurt, Germany

Re:Akt Re:Construction Re:Enactment Re:porting, curated by Domenico Quranta,

Rotovz Exhibition Salon, Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia

Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo, UCLA Queer Arts Conference, Los Angeles, CA

What 80 Million Women Want, Curators Summer School, Kino Arsenal, Berlin, Germany

Tony Montanas Ritt der Walküren, (director, with Senol Sentürk), Hector-Peterson-

Oberschule/Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany

Vaginal Davis is Speaking from the Diaphragm, 2009 Ethyl Eichelberger Award

Performance, Performance Space 122, New York, NY

Contagious! (film by Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz), Centre d’Art Contemporain,

Geneva, Switzerland

Hippo Narcissus, Semiospectacle: A Literary Revue/Columbia University, Performance

Space 122, New York, NY

Intermission Green (performance), Forum Expanded, Berlinale: 60th Internationale

Filmfestspiele, Berlin, Germany

The Dream of Norma (by Telémacos Alexiou), Forum Expanded, Berlinale: 60th

Internationale Filmfestspiele, Berlin, Germany

2009 The Bad Breast, or the Strange Case of Theda Lange, directed by Bruce LaBruce,


Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2), Berlin, Germany; also at Brut Theater, Vienna, Austria

Personal Counseling - Cooling Down Passion (or: the end of self-improvement); On

the Scene of Intimacy. A Phantasmagoria, (film), Mobile Academy/Excellence

Cluster, Languages of Emotion, Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2), Berlin, Germany

Plattenspieler, with Thomas Meinecke, Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2), Berlin, Germany

Reparations & Retardations, Performa 09, New York, NY

Memory Island, LIVE FILM! JACK SMITH! Five Flaming Days in a Rented World,

Berlin, Germany

Frau unter Einfluss, Pheonix Radio: Politik queer-feministischer Räume, Kunsthaus

Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

Hippo Narcissus, Kino Arsenal, Curators’ Summer School, Berlin, Germany

Daddy, as part of the Family: Your Nanny Hates You festival, Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2),

Berlin, Germany

The History of Ecstasy (with Ron Athey), Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina,

Naples, Italy

Advance Capitalism Interspecies HooDoo, Girl Monster (curated by Chicks on Speed),

Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany

Macho Family Romance, directed by Bruce LaBruce, Neumarkt Theater, Zurich, Switzerland

Flesh for LuLu: Taking the High Road to Sexual Failure, 7th International

Contemporary Art Expertos Forum, Arco ‘09 - Feria, Internacional De Arte

Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain

Berlin Babylonia Gorgon—Babbling on with Gossip, Song and Dance, Forum

Expanded, Berlinale: 59th Internationale Filmfestspiele, Berlin

Fornication No! Theocracy Yes! Conjuring Voice in the Spirit, Politics of Ecstasy,

Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2), Berlin, Germany

Wilhelm Hein’s “You Killed The Underground, or the Real Meaning of Kunst Bleibt,

Bleibt (Expanded Cinema Version),” KW/Kunst-werke Institute For Contemporary Art,

Berlin, Germany

2008 The Ginger Concubine, Bistroteque, London, UK

Pink Mass, curated by Stuart Comer, Tate Modern, London, UK

Standing in the Way of Control, Gossip at Columbia Halle, Berlin, Germany

The Arrogance of Youth, Klubszene Jungen Project, Youth at Risk-Kinder und Jugend

Theaterfestival, Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2), Berlin, Germany

Porno Adorno-F*ck Like the F*cking Blacks, Le Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France

CHEAP Blacky, Donau Festival, Stadtsaul, Krems, Austria

You’ll Know What To Do, Raumerweiterrungshalle, Berlin, Germany

CHEAP Max und Moritz, Theater An Der Parkauer, Berlin, Germany

Bilitis-A Feminist State, The Way That We Rhyme, Women, Art & Politics—Yerba

Buena Museum & Art Center, San Francisco, CA

Colonize Me, The Way That We Rhyme, Women, Art & Politics—Yerba Buena

Museum & Art Center, San Francisco, CA

The CHEAP Uber Alles Outsider Art Awards, CHEAP Gossip Studio Installation, 58th

Internationale Filmfestspiele, Forum Expanded Section of the Berlinale Film

Festival, Berlin, Germany

You Too Can Be Like Us-Ruth Fischer, Re-Education Festival, Hebbel am Ufer

(HAU2), Berlin, Germany

2007 Sextette - An Erotic Playground, Queer Zagreb Replaying The Balkans Art Festival-

Klub Global, Zagreb, Croatia

CHEAP Max und Moritz, Theater an der Parkauer, Berlin, Germany

CHEAP Blacky, Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2), Berlin, Germany

CHEAP Max und Moritz, Theater an der Parkauer, Berlin, Germany

TB to VD-Revolution Should Taste Like Cum, FM Queer/FM4-WUK, Vienna, Austria

Whoregasm, Porn Film Festival Nachtbar at Lux & Trixter, Berlin, Germany

Blame Canada, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany

CHEAP Max und Moritz, Theatre an der Parkauer, Berlin, Germany

CHEAP Max und Moritz, Command Performance for the Bundespresident at Schloss

Bellvue, Berlin, Germany

VD as VB Erdgeist, Earthspirit #27-29 10827, City of Women Festival Galerie

Kapelica/Aksioma Institute of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia

The Madonna of Laibachdorf, City of Women Festival Alcatraz Galerie, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Beware the Holy Retarded Whore, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Woman Under the Influence, Gallery Articule, Montreal, Canada

Lord Love a Duck, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, Canada

Si J’Etais Blanche, Simone de Beuvoir Institute, Montreal, Canada

Bilitis - A Feminist State, Womanizer, Deitch Projects, New York, NY

2006 CHEAP Silvester, Ruth Fischer Monsterland, an Interactive Installation, Hebbel am

Ufer (HAU2), Berlin, Germany

That Cold Day in the Park, Alternative Art Fair International, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

CHEAP Nothing’s Going To Stop Me On My Path To Glory, Steirischerherbst Festival

Campshow Steirmark, Graz, Austria

Tom Cruise Loves Women, The Women and Tom Cruise, Homo-A-Go-Go Queer Arts

Festival, Olympia, WA

Bricktops Takes Manhattan, Siberia, NY


Where Art & Life Collide, Festival of Subcultural Performances, New York University,

New York, NY

Tom Cruise Loves Women, The Women and Tom Cruise, Ohio State University, Athens, OH

Weimar, Joe’s Pub, New York, NY

Beware the Holy Retarded Whore, ‘making LOVE queering SEX’ Sager Symposium

Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA

2005 VD as VB Black & White Women and Men Together Again Forever 483-8070, Roselee

Goldberg´s First Biennial of New Visual Art Performances (PERFORMA),

Participant Inc., New York, NY

Vaginal Davis Film Retrospectacle, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA

Orifice Descending, New Moves Festival/National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, Scotland

CHEAP Makeover, Poker Im Osten Festival, Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2), Berlin, Germany

CHEAP It Happened to Me: A Revolutionary Horror Ride, with Vaginal Davis, Poker

Im Osten Festival, Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2), Berlin, Germany

VD as VB Black & White Women and Men Together Again Forever, Platinum

Experimental Section/Outfest Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Red Cat at Disney Hall,

Los Angeles, CA

Beware the Holy Retarded Whore, Theorizing Queer Visualities Conference; University

of Manchester, UK

The Maladjusted Rule, Queer Up North Festival Contact Theater, Manchester, UK

Orifice Descending, Hayward Gallery, Manchester, UK

Beware the Holy Retarded Whore, Ein Electronic-Cinema Abend, Kino Arsenal/

Freunde Der Deutschen Kinemathek Berlin, Germany

VD as VB Guggenheimy Bikini Show, Poker Im Osten Festival, Hebbel am Ufer

(HAU2), Berlin, Germany

CHEAP Silvester Sexual Repulsives Art Bachanalia, Kollective CHEAP with Vaginal

Davis featuring performances and installations by Bruce La Bruce, Vaginal

Davis, Peaches, Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras, Franka Potenta, Roddy

Frame of Aztec Camera, Katarzyna Kozyra, Velvet Hammer Burlesque, Max

Riemelt, Wilhelm Hein and post political art band Ruth Fischer featuring

Ibadette and Michael Halves of Super 700, Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2), Berlin,

Germany

2002 Pleather-The Dorian Corey Story, Spicy Beef Curtains at the Parlour, Los Angeles, CA

2001 CHEAP Jewelry, Reich und Berühmt Festival, Praeter, Berlin, Germany

Theocracy, Yes! Fornication, No!, Reich und Berühmt Festival, Podevil, Berlin, Germany

The Life of Juanita Castro, Reich und Berühmt Festival, Podevil, Berlin, Germany

Sucking Her Un-born Cock, Reich und Berühmt Festival, Volksbruner, Berlin, Germany

Intimacy & Tomorrow (Stupidity, To-day), C’est Vauxhaul! Festival Duckie, London, UK

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