Gordon Hall is a New York–based artist who makes sculptures, performances, and lectures. Hall has exhibited and performed at SculptureCenter, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Movement Research, EMPAC, Art in General, Temple Contemporary, Night Club Chicago, Kent Fine Art, Foxy Production, the Hessel Museum at Bard College, White Columns, and at Chapter NY, among others. Hall’s writing and interviews have been featured in a variety of publications, including V Magazine, Randy, Bomb, and Title Magazine as well as in the books What About Power? Inquiries Into Contemporary Sculpture (SculptureCenter, 2015), Queer (part of the series Documents on Contemporary Art, Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press, 2016), and Theorizing Visual Studies (Routledge, 2012).
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North Carolina’s “bathroom bill,” the Pulse nightclub shootings, police killings of African Americans, a soaring murder rate among trans women of color: Gordon Hall responds to recent traumatic events with a meditation on the potential for self-transformation through our relationships with objects.