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Zackary Drucker
Zackary Drucker born in 1983 in Syracuse, NY is an America Visual artist. She is an independent artist, cultural producer, and trans woman who breaks down the way we think about gender, sexuality, and seeing. She earned an MFA from California Institute of Arts in 2007 and a BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) from the School of Visual Arts in 2005. Zackary is recognized as a prolific photographer, filmmaker, and performance artist exploring gender expression, sexuality, and the queer experience. She has made a name for herself in the Los Angeles contemporary art scene and Hollywood landing her Emmy-nominations and serving as a Golden Globe producer.

She makes videos, photographs, and performances that address the human body and the role it plays in shaping our relationships to society incorporating her own body and poetic language into her work. Drucker seeks to reexamine cultural conventions, suggesting, for example, that sexuality and gender are not fixed binaries but offer a range of possibilities for living.

Career/Career Highlights
Zackary has performed and exhibited her work internationally in museums, galleries, and film festivals including the Whitney Biennial 2014, MoMA PS1, Hammer Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, MCA San Diego, and SF MoMA, among others. Drucker is an Emmy-nominated Producer for the docu-series "This Is Me", as well as a Producer on Golden Globe and Emmy-winning "Transparent"

In 2014 the Whitney Biennial was one of the most discussed installations, the collaborative photographic project of Zackary Drucker (BFA 2005 Photography) and Rhys Ernst series offered an “intimate and diaristic record of their relationship as a transgender couple whose bodies are transitioning in opposite directions.” The New York Times called the work “extremely provocative.” Now Relationship is a book.


 * In 2015 was nominee for the Primetime Emmy for the Outstanding Short Format Nonfiction Program “This is Me”.
 * In 2022 was nominee for the Cinema Eye Honors Award for the Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Series for Broadcast “The Lady and the Dale” released in 2021.
 * In 2022 was nominee for the Independent Spirit Award for the Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series “The Lady and the Dale”

Interviews
Gender is a Playground offers insight into Zackary Drucker and Kate Bornstein's discussion on pioneering, politics, and the next frontier in gender expression. The publishing is an interview conducted on December 18, 2017. Aperture's "Future Gender" issue, Bornstein spoke with guest editor Zackary Drucker about trans pioneers, the thrill of pornography, and the young photographers envisioning the next frontier in gender expression. Gender is a Playground expands on Zackary Drucker's storytelling on how she found her way towards Kate Borstein as a fourteen-year-old queer youth—additionally discussing Drucker's gender journey and how Borstein's transition in the 1980s pioneered her role in sexuality and her career.

Zackary Drucker: "I wanted to start by telling the story of how I found my way to you and your writing as a fourteen-year-old queer youth. It was the mid-’90s and I’d recently discovered the word queer. There I was, in the LGBT and women’s studies section at the bookstore. I don’t know what possessed me, but I shoplifted a copy of Gender Outlaw, and discovered the word transgender, and found myself in your words and in your experience in a way that I had never felt reflected before. It was a Bible of sorts. It was a Talmud, rather. I still have this copy of Gender Outlaw, and it’s creased and worn, and has notes in it—my little fourteen-year-old self, writing notes in the margins. It has a rainbow sticker on the front [laughs]. You were such a gender pioneer for me personally, and for countless others—I think an entire nation, really. Who are your gender pioneers, and who were they when you were transitioning in the 1980s?

The interview discussion between Drucker and Borstein references Drucker's perspective on female impersonation and how it has been used as a tool of misogyny, especially in television and film, and has often been conflated with trans identity. Drucker references homophobia as rooted in a discomfort with gender, gender roles, and people performing outside their gender roles.

Part of: Becoming an Artist is another crucial interview wich references a coversation with T.Cole Rachel on October 23,2017 in which Zackary Drucker gives insight on what drover her artistry.

Zackary Drucker: "When I was four years old, maybe even younger, I would dive into this chest of dress-up clothes that my mother had in the basement and my parents would take polaroids of me. This is something trans folks have done since the inception of photography. Imagining themselves outside the constraints of their everyday reality. Often when I'm speaking about my work I start there, with that experience of feeling validated, of creating something that doesn't exist in the real world."

Exhibits
The "Luis de Jesus Los Angeles" Gallery offers excellent insights on artists, exhibitions, and viewing rooms, amongst other performance visuals about other artists on their website. Luis de Jesus Los Angeles offers insight on Zackary Drucker as an artist. The publication provides perceptiveness on. Zackary Drucker as an independent artist. The descriptive article expands on Drucker's culture as a trans woman who breaks down the way we think about gender and sexuality with the following projects:.