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Buzz Slutzky (born 1988) is an artist, writer, educator, and performer who works in Brooklyn.[1][2]

Early life and education

Slutzky was born in Overland Park, Kansas in 1988 and grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey.[3] Slutzky identifies as a white Ashkenazi Jew and a non-binary transgender person, using they/them pronouns. They were raised in an upper-middle-class family, the second child of Richard Slutzky of Omaha, Nebraska and Allison Slutzky of Fort Worth, Texas. Their older brother Dane is also transgender.[4]

They graduated with a Bachelor in Arts from Sarah Lawrence College in 2010, and their Masters in Fine Arts at Parsons the New School for Design in 2015.[5] They have taught courses in art practice and theory at SUNY Purchase College and CUNY College of Staten Island, and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.[6]

Work

Slutzky has made work at the intersection of performance, craft, and figuration and has shown at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY, Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, and Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.[7][8][9]

References

  1. ^ "Buzz Slutzky". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
  2. ^ "The Adventures of Stoni Butchell and Chartruisa". Dixon Place. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
  3. ^ "NYPL Community Oral History Project | NYC Trans Oral History Project | Buzz Slutzky". oralhistory.nypl.org. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
  4. ^ "INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT: BUZZ SLUTZKY" (PDF). Muhlenberg Library, New York Public Library. Retrieved 2021-06-01.
  5. ^ "NARS Foundation - Buzz Slutzky". NARS Foundation. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
  6. ^ "Queer Artists in Their Own Words: Buzz Slutzky Wants to Make Queer History Cool". Hyperallergic. 2019-06-12. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
  7. ^ Cotter, Holland (2014-02-20). "'Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
  8. ^ "Tag: Proposals on Queer Play and the Ways Forward - Announcements - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
  9. ^ "The Queer Houses of Brooklyn in the Three Towns of Breukelen, Boswyck, and Midwout during the 41st Year of the Stonewall Era (based on a 2010 drawing by Daniel Rosza Lang/Levitsky with 24 illustrations by Buzz Slutzky on printed pin-back buttons)". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
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