K8 Hardy
Position Series, Form 21
2010
C-print
Edition 1/3 + 1 AP
30 x 20 in (76.2 x 50.8 cm)
Image courtesy of the artist and Reena Spaulings, Los Angeles and New York
K8 Hardy (b. 1977, Fort Worth) lives and works in New York. K8 Hardy’s work, ranging from photography, video, performance, and sculpture, critiques gender politics, queer identity, fashion, and star power. She is a founding member of the queer feminist zine and artist collective LTTR.
Positions Series: Form 21 is from her Position Series: an ongoing series of photographic self-portraits that present the artist as a diverse cast of eccentric characters. Like her predecessor Cindy Sherman, Hardy uses her own body to question the role of one’s exterior presentation to their personal identity and what this says about our culture. “Persona is a reaction to patriarchy,” she writes.
Provenance
Reena Spaulings Fine Art
See also
K8 Hardy in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art
K8 Hardy at Reena Spaulings Fine Art
K8 Hardy at Karma International
Sarah Nicole Prickett, “K8 Hardy ‘A New Painting’ Reena Spaulings Fine Art,” October 30, 2020
Ariana Reines, “K8 Hardy,” Bomb Magazine, April 1, 2012
Sara Marcus on K8 Hardy’s “Outfitumentary,” Texte zur Kunst, June 2016