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San Francisco, California, United States. Education. Virginia Commonwealth University. Known for. Sculpture, film, writing. Savannah Knoop (born 1981) is an American artist and filmmaker. [1] From 1999 to 2005, Knoop performed the public role of literary hoax JT Leroy .
Jan 22, 2019 · Art World. The Artist Savannah Knoop, Who Spent Six Years Posing as Literary Wunderkind JT LeRoy, Has a New Gallery Show. The star of one of the biggest literary hoaxes of our time is having a solo art debut at Essex Flowers. Savannah Knoop. Photo by Marina Winther. Sarah Cascone January 22, 2019 Share This Article.
ABOUT. Savannah Knoop is an NYC-based multi-disciplinary artist, and writer. They received their BA at CUNY under the mentorship of Vito Acconci, and their MFA at Virginia Commonwealth University in Sculpture+Extended Media.
Jan 24, 2019 · Savannah Knoop It was a process that sort of naturally unfolded. I negotiated an unlimited membership around the turn of the 2016 election. There were lots of very heated political conversations happening inside the rooms. I found myself reacting to these heated debates, while my body reacted to the heat in the Russian Radiant Room.
The public role of JT Leroy is played by Savannah Knoop, Geoffrey Knoop's half sister, who is in her mid-20's. A photograph of Ms. Knoop at a 2003 opening for a clothing store in San...
Apr 26, 2019 · April 26, 2019. By Julie Jacobs. It’s often said that truth is stranger than fiction. No doubt this adage applies to the remarkable story of Savannah Knoop, who as a young woman assumed the persona of J.T. LeRoy, an adolescent author admired for his gut-wrenching semi-autobiographical books with themes of childhood abuse and prostitution.
May 3, 2019 · In 2005, a New York Magazine story exposed that Leroy’s books were actually written by Laura Albert, a 35-year-old punk musician and sometime phone-sex operator, and that an entirely different person, named Savannah Knoop, had been acting as the face of the shy, androgynous, and profoundly talented runaway named Jeremiah ...
