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  1. Vaginal Davis (born in Los Angeles, California) is an American performing artist, painter, independent curator, composer, filmmaker and writer. Born intersex and raised in South Central, Los Angeles , Davis gained notoriety in New York during the 1980s, [2] where she inspired the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn 's prevalent drag scene as a ...

  2. Dec 12, 2015 · Throughout the eighties, Vaginal Davis developed multiple personas and performed incongruous identities. She was a black revolutionary drag queen, a teen-age Chicana pop star, a...

  3. Mar 8, 2024 · She was a very down-to-earth butch lesbian. I’ve always adored proper butches as my mother was a lesbian femme top who ruled over a bevy of butch bottom women who absolutely worshipped and adored her. ‘My mother didn’t consider herself to be an artist but was extremely creative.

  4. Apr 26, 2020 · Vaginal Davis is a key figure in the history of queer music, performance, and video art. Naming herself after the activist Angela Davis, she emerged in the queer and punk club performance scene of Los Angeles in the late 1970s.

  5. Award-winning artist, acclaimed author and international blacktress Vaginal Davis is in Stockholm. In her pioneering and incredibly diverse oeuvre, punk meets glamour, queer activism meets racial justice and resistance meets joy. “Magnificent Product” is her first major solo exhibition.

  6. Feb 4, 2020 · In the 90s, genderqueer performance artist Vaginal Davis created comedic movies on Super 8 and 16mm film with no budget that were constantly rejected by gay and lesbian film festivals. She...

  7. www.moma.org › artists › 134348Vaginal Davis | MoMA

    Vaginal Davis. Xochiquetzal, The Precious Feather Flower Goddess of Beauty and Art. 2021