User:BentleyU/Zoe Walsh

Zoe Walsh (born 1989, Washington D.C.) is a contemporary American painter and printmaker. Walsh received their BA in art history and visual arts from Occidental College in 2011 and their MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale University in 2016. They have taught at various California universities since 2017 and in 2019 they were appointed Assistant Professor of art and art history at Occidental College in Los Angeles.

Themes
Walsh is a trans artist who investigates issues of gender, identity, sexuality, and trans subjectivity. They are interested in themes of desire, seduction, spectatorship, and embodiment, specifically in relation to “engagement with pornographic material." While researching archives for their recent body of work they realized there is a dearth of visual records of trans-masculine subjects, which inspired them to make work that “constructs trans subjectivity without making it visible through the same representational structures that the archive recognizes.”"

Process
Walsh appropriates imagery from film stills and photographs - which are then digitally transformed and manipulated - as the basis for their paintings.