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Cassils ![Cassils Fountain2017 Performance Still18](/assets/hero_images/_1600x800_crop_top-center_75_none/Cassils-Fountain2017_Performance-Still18.jpg) Cassils Fountain, 2017 performance still from Cassils's closing action of 200 day durational performance PISSED Biography Listed by the Huffington Post as “one of ten transgender artists who are changing the landscape of contemporary art,” Cassils has achieved international recognition for a rigorous engagement with the body as a form of social sculpture. Featuring a series of bodies transformed by strict physical training regimes, Cassils’ artworks offer shared experiences for contemplating histories of violence, representation, struggle, and survival. Cassils juxtaposes the immediacy, urgency and ephemerality of live performance against constructed acts for camera. Bashing through binaries, Cassils performs transgender not as a crossing from one sex to another but rather as a continual process of becoming, a form of embodiment that works in a space of indeterminacy, spasm and slipperiness. Drawing on conceptualism, feminism, body art, gay male aesthetics, Cassils forges a series of powerfully trained bodies for different performative purposes. It is with sweat, blood and sinew that Cassils constructs a visual critique around ideologies and histories. NOTE ON GENDER AND PRONOUN USAGE Cassils is a gender non-conforming trans masculine visual artist. Cassils uses plural gender-neutral pronouns (they, them, their) and a single name (as opposed to first and surname) and asks that journalists do likewise when referring to them. This singularity of name and plurality of gender reflects through language the position Cassils occupies as an artist. For guidelines on writing about gender non-conforming people, please reference the GLAAD Media Reference Guide on Transgender Issues: [click here](http://www.glaad.org/reference/transgender) [ ![](/src/images/down-arrow.svg) View CV ](https://feldmangallery.com/assets/pdfs/artistCV/cassils-bio-letterhead_2021-11-22-192158_epig.pdf) [ ![](/src/images/down-arrow.svg) View Press Packet ](https://feldmangallery.com/assets/pdfs/Cassils_Selected-Press.pdf) [ ![](/src/images/redirect.svg) Artist Website ](http://cassils.net/) Select Press Apr 02, 2018 [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Cassils/2017-MONUMENTAL/cassils-installation-shot.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018-cassils-sage-emmanuel-david) Contexts Group Show [ The Art of Trans Politics ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018-cassils-sage-emmanuel-david) Jan 31, 2018 [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Cassils/Press/Pages-from-2018_cassils_artforum_getsy.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/archived-press/2018-cassils-artforum-getsy) ArtForum Group Show [ A Sight to Withhold ](https://feldmangallery.com/archived-press/2018-cassils-artforum-getsy) Oct 17, 2017 [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Cassils/2017-MONUMENTAL/Cassils-MONUMENTAL-2017_installation-shot_14.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017-cassils-vice-news) VICE News Tonight Group Show [ Trans Artist Collected 200 Gallons of Urine to Protest Trump ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017-cassils-vice-news) Sep 15, 2017 [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Cassils-200-days-thumbnail.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017-cassils-huffington-post) Huffington Post Group Show [ Why This Artist Has Been Saving His Urine For The Last 200 Days ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017-cassils-huffington-post) Exhibitions [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Burden-Doorway-to-Heaven-1973_2025-08-26-193130_lpzr.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/352-group-exhibition-performance-activist-and-existential-photographs) Sep 2025 – Jan 2026 Group Show [ Performance, 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](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/334-reprise-summer-show-2018-5-12-8-31-2018) [See All Exhibitions ](/past_exhibitions/cassils) ![Cassils Becoming An Image Performance Still No 4 National Theater Studio Spill Festival London 2013 Tiff](/assets/artist_images/Cassils-Becoming-An-Image-Performance-Still-No.-4-National-Theater-Studio-SPILL-Festival-London-2013.tiff.JPG) Cassils Becoming an Image Performance Still No. 4, 2013 View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Cassils Becoming An Image Performance Still No 4 National Theater Studio Spill Festival London 2013 Tiff]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Cassils Becoming an Image Performance Still No. 4, 2013 National Theater Studio, SPILL Festival, London ![Cassils Becoming An Image Performance Still No 3 National Theater Studio Spill Festival London 2013 Tiff 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Cassils Becoming an Image Performance Still No. 3, 2013 National Theater Studio, SPILL Festival, London ![Cassils Becoming An Image Performance Still No 2 Edgy Woman Festival Montreal 2013 Tiff]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Cassils Becoming an Image Performance Still No. 2, 2013 Edgy Women Festival, Montreal ![Cassils Inextinguishable Fire Burn For Portrait 2007 2015 01]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Cassils Inextinguishable Fire: Burn for Portrait, 2015 ![Cassils Time Lapse Front 2011]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Cassils Time Lapse (front), 2011 ![Cassils Time Lapse Back 2011 Tiff]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Cassils Time Lapse (back), 2011 ![Cassils Advertisement Homage To Benglis 2011]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Cassils Advertisement: Homage to Benglis, 2011 ![Cassils Inextinguishable Fire 2007 2015 08]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Cassils Inextinguishable Fire, 2015 ![Cassils Resilience Of The 20 Percent 2016 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Cassils Resilience of the 20%, 2016 ![Cassils Alchemic No 1 2017 Slideshow]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Cassils Alchemic 1, 2017 ![Cassils Alchemic No 4 2017]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Cassils Alchemic no. 4, 2017 ![Cassils Pissed 2017 02]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Cassils PISSED, 2017 ![Cassils Body Of Work 2013 Install View Of South Gallery A](/assets/exhibition_images/Cassils-Body-of-Work-2013-Install-View-of-South-Gallery_A.JPG) Body of Work, 2013 View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Cassils Body Of Work 2013 Install View Of South Gallery A]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Body of Work, 2013 installation view ![Cassils Body Of Work 2013 Install View Of South Gallery H]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Body of Work, 2013 installation view ![Cassils Body Of Work 2013 Install View Of North Gallery A]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Body of Work, 2013 installation view ![Cassils Monumental 2017 Installation Shot 05]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) MONUMENTAL, 2017 installation view ![Cassils Monumental 2017 Installation Shot 17]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) MONUMENTAL, 2017 installation view ![Cassils Monumental 2017 Installation Shot 23]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) MONUMENTAL, 2017 installation view ![Cassils Body Of Work 2013 Install View Of South Gallery A](/assets/exhibition_images/Cassils-Body-of-Work-2013-Install-View-of-South-Gallery_A.JPG) ![Cassils Body Of Work 2013 Install View Of South Gallery H](/assets/exhibition_images/Cassils-Body-of-Work-2013-Install-View-of-South-Gallery_H.JPG) ![Cassils Body Of Work 2013 Install View Of North Gallery A](/assets/exhibition_images/Cassils-Body-of-Work-2013-Install-View-of-North-Gallery_A.JPG) ![Cassils Monumental 2017 Installation Shot 05](/assets/exhibition_images/Cassils/2017-MONUMENTAL/Cassils-MONUMENTAL-2017_installation-shot_05.JPG) ![Cassils Monumental 2017 Installation Shot 17](/assets/exhibition_images/Cassils/2017-MONUMENTAL/Cassils-MONUMENTAL-2017_installation-shot_17.JPG) ![Cassils Monumental 2017 Installation Shot 23](/assets/exhibition_images/Cassils/2017-MONUMENTAL/Cassils-MONUMENTAL-2017_installation-shot_23.JPG) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Cassils Body Of Work 2013 Install View Of South Gallery A]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Body of Work, 2013 installation view ![Cassils Body Of Work 2013 Install View Of South Gallery H]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Body of Work, 2013 installation view ![Cassils Body Of Work 2013 Install View Of North Gallery A]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Body of Work, 2013 installation view ![Cassils Monumental 2017 Installation Shot 05]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) MONUMENTAL, 2017 installation view ![Cassils Monumental 2017 Installation Shot 17]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) MONUMENTAL, 2017 installation view ![Cassils Monumental 2017 Installation Shot 23]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) MONUMENTAL, 2017 installation view Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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