Lives and works in New York, NY.
B. 1983, Roxbury, Massachusetts
Lives and works in New York, New York
EDUCATION
2006
Bachelor of Arts, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY
SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024
Video Room: Tourmaline, MASP, Sao Paolo, Brazil
2023
Pleasure and Pollinator, MUDAM, Luxembourg City, LUX
2020-21
Pleasure Garden, Chapter NY, New YorK
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
Whitney Biennial 2024: Better Than The Real Thing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest, South London Gallery, London, UK
2023
I Threw Myself In A Concrete Mixer, The Gallatin Galleries, New York University, NY
The Irreplaceable Human, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, DNK
Like Magic, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Salacia, Permanent Collection, Tate Modern, London, GBR
2022
Pure Joy, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY
Mountain/Time, Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, CO
52 Artists: Revisiting a Feminist Milestone, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
The Milk of Dreams, the 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, ITA
2021-22
Recent Acquisitions 2021: Collecting for the Museum, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Black American Portraits, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Critical Fabulations, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
7th Athens Biennale 2021 ECLIPSE, Athens, GRC
3.0, Chapter NY, New York
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
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
2024
Pollinator, CC Strombeek, Brussels, BE
Salacia, Hamburg Shortfilm Festival, Hamburg, DE
Atlantic Is a Sea of Bones, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Atlantic Is a Sea of Bones, Museum of the City of New York, NY
2022
Salacia, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Pollinator, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Salacia, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, NY
Mary of Ill Fame, Art Crush, Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, CO
Salacia, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
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
2018
Happy Birthday Marsha!, Outfest, Chinese Theater, Los Angeles, CA
Happy Birthday Marsha!, Frameline, San Francisco, CA
Happy Birthday Marsha!, BFI Flare, London, GBR
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 BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
Schultz, Charles. “Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing,” The Brooklyn Rail, April 12, 2024.
Avis, Trip. “Review: Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing,” Musée, April 9, 2024.
Davis, Ben. “The Whitney Biennial Can’t Go on Like This Forever,” Artnet, March 29, 2024.
Trouillot, Terence. “The Whitney Biennial’s Quietude Shouldn’t Be Overlooked,” Frieze, March 28, 2024.
Watlington, Emily. “A Whitney Biennial with No Heroes and No Villains,” Art in America, March 26, 2024.
Green, Luke. Furst, David. “The Whitney Biennial’s curators share the process of choosing this year’s art,” Gothamist, March 24, 2024.
“VIDEO: Discover the Most Fascinating Whitney Biennial 2024 Artists,” Galerie, March 23, 2024.
Wu, Jenny. “Whitney Biennial 2024 Review: Baby Steps,” ArtReview, March 21, 2024.
Sutton, Benjamin. “The 2024 Whitney Biennial in five key themes,” The Art Newspaper, March 21, 2024.
Klotzman, Lauren. “At the Whitney Biennial, Expansive Representations of Age, Gender, and Technology Are Subtly on Display,” Boston Art Review, March 19, 2024.
Scobie, Ilka. “Whitney Biennial 2024: Is This The Real Thing,” Artlyst, March 18, 2024.
Eli, Adam. “’It’s Beautiful to Be Deviant’: Tourmaline’s Tribute to Queer History Shines at the Whitney Biennial,” Cultured, March 15, 2024.
Weaver, Shaye. “Five of the coolest things to see at this year’s Whitney Biennial,” Time Out, March 13, 2024.
Vincler, John. “Was the Vision for the 2024 Whitney Biennial ‘Better Than the Real Thing’?,” Cultured, March 13, 2024.
Schwendener, Martha. “It Could Be Weirder Than the Real Thing,” The New York Times, March 13, 2024.
Greenberger, Alex. “Whitney Biennial Names 71 Artists for 2024 Edition,” ARTnews, January 25, 2024.
2023
Adrian-Diaz, Jenna. “These Artist-Made Digital Monuments Center Black History and Culture,” Surface, November 21, 2023.
Iscoe, Adam. “The Statue Wars Return to Cyberspace,” The New Yorker, November 20, 2023.
“Art Diary: The Irreplaceable Human,” Apollo, November 17, 2023.
Greenberger, Alex. “The 100 Greatest New York City Artworks, Ranked,” ARTnews, August 29, 2023.
“Two Artists on the Sacred Sisterhood of Trans Women,” The New York Times Style Magazine, April 20, 2023.
Salvör Menuez, Bobbi. “Black Trans Activist–Artist Tourmaline Visually Decolonizes America’s
Dark History,” Purple Magazine, March 2023.
2022
Bürgel, Octavia. “Black-American Mytho-Cinematic Universe,” Flash Art, November 29, 2022.
Fisher, Justine. “Chella Man Features All Disabled Artists in ‘Pure Joy,’” PAPER, July 26, 2022.
Watlington, Emily. “’Titans’ Actor and Activist Chella Man on Curating Disabled Joy and Resisting ‘Inspiration Porn,’” ARTnews, July 15, 2022.
Ling, Isabel. “An Expansive New Show Celebrates Five Decades of Feminist Art,” Artsy, July 8, 2022.
“11 Artists and Activists on the State of Trans Rights Around the Globe,” GQ, June 30, 2022.
Sutton, Benjamin. “The politics of luxury: Tourmaline on her powerful new photographs Art Basel,” The Art Newspaper, June 16, 2022.
“Tourmaline and Helena Uambembe Win 2022 Baloise Art Prize,” Artforum, June 15, 2022.
Greenberger, Alex. “Tourmaline, Helena Uambembe Win Art Basel’s Biggest Prize,” ARTnews, June 14, 2022.
Ozturk, Selen. “Tourmaline on Moving Toward Desire and Our Truest Selves,” Whitewall, May 24, 2022.
“QUEER: Stories From The NGV Collection - 5 Curators Share 5 Works,” Frooty, March 8, 2022.
Fekete, Sienna. (Editor). (2022, January 31). Tourmaline (Season 2, Ep. 1) [Audio podcast episode]. Points of View. Cultured Magazine.
“Tourmaline Goes Beyond the Headlines to Launch Second Season of Cultured Podcast, Points of View,” Cultured Magazine, January 31, 2022.
2021
Drew, Kimberly, “A Deeper Look Inside the Met’s New Afrofuturist Period Room,” Elle Décor, December 8, 2021.
Villa, Angelica, “From Gentileschi to Tourmaline, Getty to Showcase Recent Acquisitions in New Exhibition,” Artnews, December 8, 2021.
Wu, Simon, “Tourmaline Rewrites Stories as They Should Be,” Cultured Magazine, November 2021.
Marius, Marley, “In ‘Before Yesterday We Could Fly,’ Visions of a Fictive Black Future Take Flight at the Met,” Vogue, November 2, 2021.
Ligon, Zoë, “’We Deserve to Feel Good all the Time’: An Interview with artist, filmmaker, and activist Tourmaline,” 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,” The New Yorker, 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,” The New York Times 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.
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. “Sylvia Rivera 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 Trans Woman,” 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, David France, and the Netflix 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.
“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 ARTIST 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.
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
2024
“Activists on Screen: Queer Gaze in Cinema,” Museum of the City of New York, NY.
2023
Artist Talk: Tourmaline,” University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA. “Tourmaline: Pleasure and Pollinator,” Screening and Talk, MUDAM, Luxembourg City.
2022
“Agosto Machado’s New York: In honor of World AIDS Day, the artist and activist speaks to filmmaker Tourmaline about his work and the city’s queer history,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
“Before Yesterday We Could Fly: A Creative Convening on Afrofuturism,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.
“Black Genius: A Discussion on the Power, Influence, & Beauty of Black Creativity,” Sony Music Group Employee Resource Group, HUE (Helping Unite Everyone) (online)
2021
“Critical Fabulations: Floor 2 Preview and Conversation,” Museum of Modern Art, New York. NY
“UC Berkeley 36th Empowering Womxn of Color Conference 2021,” University of California, Berkeley, CA (online)
“5th Annual Trans & Nonbinary Summit,” Outfest LA Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA (online)
“Countering Erasure,” Hunter College, New York, NY (online)
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 + Feminism,” 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, GBR
“Speculative Planning Session w/ Fred Moten & Stefano Harney,” Co-organized w/ Constantina Zavitsanos, New Museum, New York, NY
SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS
2022
23rd Baloise Art Prize, awarded at Art Basel
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
2018-19
Shandaken Governor’s Island, New York, NY
2016-17
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council: Workspace Residency, New York, NY
2014-18
Activist in Residence, Barnard College Center for Research on Women, New York, NY
2012-13
Queer/Art/Mentorship Fellow, New York, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg City, LUX
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AUS
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Tate, London, GBR
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Lives and works in New York, New York
EDUCATION
2006
Bachelor of Arts, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY
SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024
Video Room: Tourmaline, MASP, Sao Paolo, Brazil
2023
Pleasure and Pollinator, MUDAM, Luxembourg City, LUX
2020-21
Pleasure Garden, Chapter NY, New YorK
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
Whitney Biennial 2024: Better Than The Real Thing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest, South London Gallery, London, UK
2023
I Threw Myself In A Concrete Mixer, The Gallatin Galleries, New York University, NY
The Irreplaceable Human, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, DNK
Like Magic, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Salacia, Permanent Collection, Tate Modern, London, GBR
2022
Pure Joy, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY
Mountain/Time, Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, CO
52 Artists: Revisiting a Feminist Milestone, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
The Milk of Dreams, the 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, ITA
2021-22
Recent Acquisitions 2021: Collecting for the Museum, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Black American Portraits, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Critical Fabulations, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
7th Athens Biennale 2021 ECLIPSE, Athens, GRC
3.0, Chapter NY, New York
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
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
2024
Pollinator, CC Strombeek, Brussels, BE
Salacia, Hamburg Shortfilm Festival, Hamburg, DE
Atlantic Is a Sea of Bones, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Atlantic Is a Sea of Bones, Museum of the City of New York, NY
2022
Salacia, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Pollinator, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Salacia, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, NY
Mary of Ill Fame, Art Crush, Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, CO
Salacia, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
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
2018
Happy Birthday Marsha!, Outfest, Chinese Theater, Los Angeles, CA
Happy Birthday Marsha!, Frameline, San Francisco, CA
Happy Birthday Marsha!, BFI Flare, London, GBR
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 BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
Schultz, Charles. “Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing,” The Brooklyn Rail, April 12, 2024.
Avis, Trip. “Review: Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing,” Musée, April 9, 2024.
Davis, Ben. “The Whitney Biennial Can’t Go on Like This Forever,” Artnet, March 29, 2024.
Trouillot, Terence. “The Whitney Biennial’s Quietude Shouldn’t Be Overlooked,” Frieze, March 28, 2024.
Watlington, Emily. “A Whitney Biennial with No Heroes and No Villains,” Art in America, March 26, 2024.
Green, Luke. Furst, David. “The Whitney Biennial’s curators share the process of choosing this year’s art,” Gothamist, March 24, 2024.
“VIDEO: Discover the Most Fascinating Whitney Biennial 2024 Artists,” Galerie, March 23, 2024.
Wu, Jenny. “Whitney Biennial 2024 Review: Baby Steps,” ArtReview, March 21, 2024.
Sutton, Benjamin. “The 2024 Whitney Biennial in five key themes,” The Art Newspaper, March 21, 2024.
Klotzman, Lauren. “At the Whitney Biennial, Expansive Representations of Age, Gender, and Technology Are Subtly on Display,” Boston Art Review, March 19, 2024.
Scobie, Ilka. “Whitney Biennial 2024: Is This The Real Thing,” Artlyst, March 18, 2024.
Eli, Adam. “’It’s Beautiful to Be Deviant’: Tourmaline’s Tribute to Queer History Shines at the Whitney Biennial,” Cultured, March 15, 2024.
Weaver, Shaye. “Five of the coolest things to see at this year’s Whitney Biennial,” Time Out, March 13, 2024.
Vincler, John. “Was the Vision for the 2024 Whitney Biennial ‘Better Than the Real Thing’?,” Cultured, March 13, 2024.
Schwendener, Martha. “It Could Be Weirder Than the Real Thing,” The New York Times, March 13, 2024.
Greenberger, Alex. “Whitney Biennial Names 71 Artists for 2024 Edition,” ARTnews, January 25, 2024.
2023
Adrian-Diaz, Jenna. “These Artist-Made Digital Monuments Center Black History and Culture,” Surface, November 21, 2023.
Iscoe, Adam. “The Statue Wars Return to Cyberspace,” The New Yorker, November 20, 2023.
“Art Diary: The Irreplaceable Human,” Apollo, November 17, 2023.
Greenberger, Alex. “The 100 Greatest New York City Artworks, Ranked,” ARTnews, August 29, 2023.
“Two Artists on the Sacred Sisterhood of Trans Women,” The New York Times Style Magazine, April 20, 2023.
Salvör Menuez, Bobbi. “Black Trans Activist–Artist Tourmaline Visually Decolonizes America’s
Dark History,” Purple Magazine, March 2023.
2022
Bürgel, Octavia. “Black-American Mytho-Cinematic Universe,” Flash Art, November 29, 2022.
Fisher, Justine. “Chella Man Features All Disabled Artists in ‘Pure Joy,’” PAPER, July 26, 2022.
Watlington, Emily. “’Titans’ Actor and Activist Chella Man on Curating Disabled Joy and Resisting ‘Inspiration Porn,’” ARTnews, July 15, 2022.
Ling, Isabel. “An Expansive New Show Celebrates Five Decades of Feminist Art,” Artsy, July 8, 2022.
“11 Artists and Activists on the State of Trans Rights Around the Globe,” GQ, June 30, 2022.
Sutton, Benjamin. “The politics of luxury: Tourmaline on her powerful new photographs Art Basel,” The Art Newspaper, June 16, 2022.
“Tourmaline and Helena Uambembe Win 2022 Baloise Art Prize,” Artforum, June 15, 2022.
Greenberger, Alex. “Tourmaline, Helena Uambembe Win Art Basel’s Biggest Prize,” ARTnews, June 14, 2022.
Ozturk, Selen. “Tourmaline on Moving Toward Desire and Our Truest Selves,” Whitewall, May 24, 2022.
“QUEER: Stories From The NGV Collection - 5 Curators Share 5 Works,” Frooty, March 8, 2022.
Fekete, Sienna. (Editor). (2022, January 31). Tourmaline (Season 2, Ep. 1) [Audio podcast episode]. Points of View. Cultured Magazine.
“Tourmaline Goes Beyond the Headlines to Launch Second Season of Cultured Podcast, Points of View,” Cultured Magazine, January 31, 2022.
2021
Drew, Kimberly, “A Deeper Look Inside the Met’s New Afrofuturist Period Room,” Elle Décor, December 8, 2021.
Villa, Angelica, “From Gentileschi to Tourmaline, Getty to Showcase Recent Acquisitions in New Exhibition,” Artnews, December 8, 2021.
Wu, Simon, “Tourmaline Rewrites Stories as They Should Be,” Cultured Magazine, November 2021.
Marius, Marley, “In ‘Before Yesterday We Could Fly,’ Visions of a Fictive Black Future Take Flight at the Met,” Vogue, November 2, 2021.
Ligon, Zoë, “’We Deserve to Feel Good all the Time’: An Interview with artist, filmmaker, and activist Tourmaline,” 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,” The New Yorker, 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,” The New York Times 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.
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. “Sylvia Rivera 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 Trans Woman,” 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, David France, and the Netflix 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.
“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 ARTIST 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.
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
2024
“Activists on Screen: Queer Gaze in Cinema,” Museum of the City of New York, NY.
2023
Artist Talk: Tourmaline,” University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA. “Tourmaline: Pleasure and Pollinator,” Screening and Talk, MUDAM, Luxembourg City.
2022
“Agosto Machado’s New York: In honor of World AIDS Day, the artist and activist speaks to filmmaker Tourmaline about his work and the city’s queer history,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
“Before Yesterday We Could Fly: A Creative Convening on Afrofuturism,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.
“Black Genius: A Discussion on the Power, Influence, & Beauty of Black Creativity,” Sony Music Group Employee Resource Group, HUE (Helping Unite Everyone) (online)
2021
“Critical Fabulations: Floor 2 Preview and Conversation,” Museum of Modern Art, New York. NY
“UC Berkeley 36th Empowering Womxn of Color Conference 2021,” University of California, Berkeley, CA (online)
“5th Annual Trans & Nonbinary Summit,” Outfest LA Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA (online)
“Countering Erasure,” Hunter College, New York, NY (online)
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 + Feminism,” 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, GBR
“Speculative Planning Session w/ Fred Moten & Stefano Harney,” Co-organized w/ Constantina Zavitsanos, New Museum, New York, NY
SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS
2022
23rd Baloise Art Prize, awarded at Art Basel
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
2018-19
Shandaken Governor’s Island, New York, NY
2016-17
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council: Workspace Residency, New York, NY
2014-18
Activist in Residence, Barnard College Center for Research on Women, New York, NY
2012-13
Queer/Art/Mentorship Fellow, New York, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg City, LUX
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AUS
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Tate, London, GBR
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY