Ronald Feldman Gallery | Cassils Cassils

Cassils

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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

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Apr 02, 2018

Contexts Group Show The Art of Trans Politics

Jan 31, 2018

ArtForum Group Show A Sight to Withhold

Oct 17, 2017

VICE News Tonight Group Show Trans Artist Collected 200 Gallons of Urine to Protest Trump

Sep 15, 2017

Huffington Post Group Show Why This Artist Has Been Saving His Urine For The Last 200 Days

Exhibitions

Sep 2025 – Jan 2026 Group Show Performance, Activist, and Existential Photographs

Mar 05 – Mar 08, 2020 Group Show The Armory Show 2020

Jun 18 – Jul 18, 2019 Group Show Summer 2019

Jun 11 – Aug 23, 2018 Group Show Reprise: Summer Show 2018

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Cassils Becoming An Image Performance Still No 4 National Theater Studio Spill Festival London 2013 Tiff

Cassils

Becoming an Image Performance Still No. 4, 2013

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Becoming an Image Performance Still No. 4, 2013

National Theater Studio, SPILL Festival, London

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Becoming an Image Performance Still No. 3, 2013

National Theater Studio, SPILL Festival, London

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Becoming an Image Performance Still No. 2, 2013

Edgy Women Festival, Montreal

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Inextinguishable Fire: Burn for Portrait, 2015

Cassils Time Lapse Front 2011

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Time Lapse (front), 2011

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Time Lapse (back), 2011

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Advertisement: Homage to Benglis, 2011

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Inextinguishable Fire, 2015

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Resilience of the 20%, 2016

Cassils Alchemic No 1 2017 Slideshow

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Alchemic 1, 2017

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Alchemic no. 4, 2017

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PISSED, 2017

Cassils Body Of Work 2013 Install View Of South Gallery A

Body of Work, 2013

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Body of Work, 2013

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Cassils Body Of Work 2013 Install View Of North Gallery A

Body of Work, 2013

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Cassils Monumental 2017 Installation Shot 05

MONUMENTAL, 2017

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MONUMENTAL, 2017

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MONUMENTAL, 2017

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Cassils Body Of Work 2013 Install View Of South Gallery A

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Cassils Body Of Work 2013 Install View Of South Gallery A

Body of Work, 2013

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Cassils Body Of Work 2013 Install View Of South Gallery H

Body of Work, 2013

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Cassils Body Of Work 2013 Install View Of North Gallery A

Body of Work, 2013

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MONUMENTAL, 2017

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MONUMENTAL, 2017

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MONUMENTAL, 2017

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