Victorine Meurent was my M.F.A. thesis performance that I performed in a 19th-century gallery space in the National Gallery of Canada, in 2009.  Victorine Meurent is a performance piece designed to tell the story of the white model, Victorine Meurent, in Édouard Manet’s once-notorious painting Olympia. The black woman who also appears in the painting…

Queer Zone is an art event for gender non-conforming, 2SLGBTQ+ and trans folks. It’s a public, collaborative, drawing performance where I use the aesthetics of play to create large-scale drawings in marker on canvas. The idea with the Queer Zone is to decolonialize public space by reclaiming it as safe space. The Queer Zone has…