Kris Grey

The driving forces of my life and art work revolve around the idea of compulsory gender and the trans persona. Popular culture, the scientific community and the media contribute to a cultural hegemony that urges conformity to a strict gender binary. This binary dictates that we identify as either male or female, and that our appearances, behaviors, and preferences are proscribed by this designation.

As a gender variant individual I find myself outside of the binary, and consequently, my work seeks to explore the expansive nature of the gender continuum. I access technologies of gender mutation in order to enhance physical ambiguities which have historically been eradicated or manipulated by systems of science and the health industry. I function as a hybrid queer individual, intersexed by design as opposed to diagnosis.