Juliana Huxtable
| Juliana Huxtable | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 29, 1987 Bryan-College Station, Texas, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Bard College |
Juliana Huxtable (born December 29, 1987) is an American artist, DJ, and model who works in photography, video, performance, poetry, and music. After gaining visibility in the New York club scene, Huxtable came to prominence in the art world with her inclusion in the 2015 New Museum Triennial, Surround Audience. In her work, Huxtable uses her own body as a primary subject to archive and abstract representations of art history, the Internet, and her experience as a trans and intersex woman of color. She draws from a broad range of references, including the Nuwaubian movement. Huxtable is a co-founder of the night club SHOCK VALUE in Queens, New York and is a member of the Queens, New York-based collective House of Ladosha. She currently lives and works in New York, New York.
Huxtable was raised in a Baptist family in the "conservative Bible Belt town" of Bryan-College Station, Texas. Huxtable was born intersex and began her medical transition after graduating college, but notes that struggles with her gender and sex started much earlier.
Through her time at Bard College, Huxtable wore a chest binder to appear flat chested, as it was a time when she said, "I was trying to force myself to be more 'boyish.'" After graduating from Bard College in 2010, Huxtable moved to New York, NY to work as a legal assistant for the ACLU's Racial Justice Program. While establishing herself in the city, she found that "naturally, being here, I shed all of (my insecurities) slowly, but surely. All of those have come off. I still deal with it, but I like myself. I love myself."
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