A.K. Burns

A.K. Burns (born 1975, in Capitola, California) is a New York-based interdisciplinary visual artist, working with video, installation, sculpture, collage, poetry and collaboration whose works address trans-feminist issues. Burns is currently a fellow at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She graduated from Rhode Island School of Design and went on to receive an MFA in sculpture from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. Burns has been full-time faculty at Hunter College's Graduate Department of Art and Art History from 2015-2016 and a mentor at Columbia University. She has also taught at Parsons the New School for Design, Cooper Union and Virginia Commonwealth University. Burns was a 2015 Creative Capital grant recipient in the Visual Arts category and is represented by Callicoon Fine Arts and Video Data Bank.

Touch Parade is a five-channel video installation about online fetish culture. In the videos, Burns interprets a series of videos from YouTube that contain sexually inexplicit, yet fetishized actions.

A Smeary Spot is the first in a cycle of multimedia installations, that uses science fiction and queer politics as a foundation to explore five interrelated elements: land, water, the body, power and the void. Completed and first exhibited in 2015 at Participant Inc., the 4-channel video was shot in the deserts of southern Utah and in a black box theater.

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