Shana Agid
EDUCATION
2005 MA, Visual Criticism, California College of the Arts (CCA)
2004 MFA, Printmaking and Book Arts, California College of the Arts (CCA)
1997 BA, Printmaking/Science, Technology, and Society, Sarah Lawrence College & Eugene Lang College (Fall 1996)
EXHIBITIONS
2007
Fall ’07 Exhibition, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, New York, Guest Curator: Mary Temple
5+5 Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (two person show)
Spring ’07 Exhibition, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, New York, Guest Curator: Bruce Pearson
2006
’Racing Pages, New York LGBT Center, New York, New York
2005
Art Caucas International Biennial 2005, “Beyond Stereotypes,” International Art Show, Tbilisi, Georgia
Ocean Crossing, California College of the Arts, Oakland, California and Osaka University of the Arts, Osaka, Japan
2004
Parts, New College of California, San Francisco, California
Paper Cuts, Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, California
Fresh Meat, ODC, San Francisco, California
2004 MFA Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California
Felix Variations, Play Space, the California College of the Arts Graduate Gallery, San Francisco, California
Paper, Ink, Fresh Perspectives, The San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, California
2003
Sugar Valley, Castro Street Fair, San Francisco, California
Tranny Identification Project, Good Vibrations, San Francisco, California
Safe Keeping, Critical Resistance Southern Regional Conference and Strategy Session, New Orleans, Louisiana
XOXOX, The San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, California
2002
Repurpose, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California, Juror: Nicolas Bourriaud, co-director, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
1997
Coptic and Collage, New York City Center for Book Arts, New York, New York
RESIDENCIES
2006-7 Keyholder Residency, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, New York
CONFERENCES
2006
Cultural Studies Association 5th Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon
Paper: “I Love My Dead Gay Son: Violences of Domination and the Making of LGBT Citizens in the United States”
2005
Re-Viewing Bodies: Embodiment, Process, and Change, 2005 International Visual Sociology Association Conference, Dublin, Ireland
Paper: “No Superman: Troubling Representations of Trans ‘Masculinity’ in Visual Culture”
Trans Politics, Social Change, and Justice, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS), New York, New York
Paper: “‘Fags Doom Nations’: Imagining Safety and Politics Beyond Hate Crime Legislation”
Parties and Shared Space: 18th Annual Association of English Graduate Students Conference, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Paper: “How I Learned to Hold It: Public Bathrooms and Gender Policing”
2004
InterseXions: Queer Visual Culture at the Crossroads, Queer Caucus for Art of the College Art Association, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS), New York, New York
Panel Chair: “Deconstructing the Queer Next Door: Interrogations of Queer Realness and the “Normal”
Paper: “Becoming the (White) Man: Loren Cameron’s Body Alchemy and the Pitfalls of the Real”
GUEST LECTURES
2005
Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, “‘Fags Doom Nations’ and Other Parables of Hate: Imagining a Transgender Politics”
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut,“No Superman: Troubling Representations of Trans ‘Masculinity’”
PUBLICATIONS
“Teaching Beyond 'Tolerance': Introduction,” Radical Teacher, Iss. 80, January 2008, pp. 2-5. [Co-authored with Erica Rand]
“Hurricane Katrina and the Prison Industrial Complex,” in Through the Eye of Katrina: Social Justice in the United States. Kristin Bates and Richelle Swan, eds., (Durham: Carolina Academic Press), 2007, pp. 55-75.
“When We Became Normal: Transgender People in Pop Culture and the Politics of Normalcy,” Clamor, Iss. 8, Fall 2006, pp. 24-5.
“When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Boy: Transgeneration’s Meditation on the Real,” flowtv.org, Vol. 3, Iss. 6, 2005.
AWARDS/HONORS
2003, 2004 California College of the Arts, All College Honors in Graduate Non-Fiction Writing
COLLECTIONS
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Irvine
University of California, San Diego
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
San Diego State University
The La Jolla Athenaeum Music and Arts Library
Wesleyan University
Stanford University
Harvard University
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
2006 University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, Fine Art Department/Printmaking
2004, 2006 Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, Visual Art Department/ Printmaking