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Zackary Drucker
The artist that I decided to choose was Zackary Drucker. This woman was born in Syracuse, NY and attended School of Visual Arts New York earning a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts/Photography and a Masters degree in photography and Media at California Institute of the Arts Valencia. She is 39 years of age born in 1983. Through her art she tries to confront Gender Norms, sexuality, the body, and her personal experiences being a trans women and as a result of her artwork she never disappoints her audience. Drucker is an independent artist who I feel one of her biggest accomplishments was actually showing her true sexuality and be herself no matter what even if people judge her. She has displayed her work in many museums internationally like Whitney Biennial 2014, MoMA PS1, Hammer Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, MCA San Diego, SF MoMA, and etc. She was also nominated for an Emmy because she helped produce This Is ME. She also was a producer on Golden Globe and won an Emmy for Transparent. She has also been featured in article in the ArtDaily, LA weekly as well as CNN, with her most recent article in Radical Possibilities. Zackary has also been a spokes person to communicate the challenges faced by the transgender community as well as for people to learn more about them in universities, museums, film festivals, and charity events. Her alongside Rhys Ernst wrote a book titled Relationship, that basically takes about a male becoming a female, life, art, and how life becoming public is like.

Creations
She creates not only art, but books, and many other things that you can purchase and learn more about her like:
 * Book: Relationships
 * Personalized Welcome mat with Zackary Drucker face on it
 * Initiation(letterpress)
 * Dirty Looks Volume 3
 * Aperture #229: Future Gender
 * Made in L.A. 2012 Catalogue
 * Whitney Bienniel 2014 Catalogue

Exhibitions
I AM A Camera, presenting Relationship and She Gone Rogue, FotoFest International, Houston, TX, July 9 - August 29, 2015 Auto Body, Faena Art Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 31 - June 8, 2015 Counter Cinema / Counter Media, in conjunction with the Cinema and Media Studies Grad Student Conference. An evening with Zackary Drucker, featuring the presentation of She Gone Rogue, At least you know you exist, FISH, and Lost Lake, University of Chicago-Illinois, Chicago, IL, May 8, 2015 Skerssvitra ("queer dash"), presenting Relationship by Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, June 18 - August 2, 2015 Artist on Artist: Zackary Drucker on Brian Weil, in conjunction with Brian Weil, 1979-95: Being in the World, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA April 7, 2015. Beating around the bush, Episode #4, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands, November 7, 014 - February 8, 2015. Curated by Stijn Huits. The Skew, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, February 18, 2015. Organized by Zackary Drucker and Michael Green, Education Programs Cura or, MCA Chicago. Cinema is a Virus from Out of Space, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA, February 2, 2015. Program curated by Carole Ann Klonarides, Sylvère Lotringer and Michael Oblowitz.
 * 2005: Star Worship (photography): Westport Art Center (Westport, CT); Visual Arts Gallery (New York)
 * 2006: Queer Factor (video): ARTSTAR/Deitch Projects (New York)
 * Tittie Tangle (live performance): UCLA Hammer Museum (Los Angeles)
 * Prayer (live performance): Exchange Rate/Remy’s Gallery (Los Angeles)
 * You will never be a woman. You must live the rest of your days entirely as a man and will only grow more masculine with every passing year. There is no way out. (video): Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Art Office for Film and Video, OUTFEST (Los Angeles); Les Recontres Internationales (Paris/Berlin/Madrid); Gender Bender VI Edition (Bologna, Italy)
 * 2011: AntiFreeze, New York, NY, performance
 * 2015: Exhibitions, Performances and Screenings in 2015: