CASSILS (Canada/ USA) is a Guggenheim award winning visual and performance artist whose work has been hailed as “sensuously intimate and hedonistically frenetic" by the  New York Times. Cassils makes their transgender body the material and protagonist of their performances. They work across the mediums of performance, sculpture, photography, film, sound and collaborative mediagenic spectacles. They are a recipient of the National Performance Network Award, a Villa Bellagio Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, a United States Artist Fellowship, a Creative Capital Award and many more.

Cassils’s solo exhibitions include: SITE Santa Fe, NM; the Banff Center for Art and Creativity; Victoria Albert Museum and Barbican, UK;  Perth Institute for Contemporary Arts, AU;  Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, NYC and MU Eindhoven, Netherlands. Their performances and art works have been presented internationally at London’s National Theater and Southbank Center, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MUCEM, Marseille, France; Deutsches Historisches Museum and the Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany; MUCA Roma, Mexico City, Mexico and The Broad, LA and more. Their films have screened at Sundance International Film Festival, and he is US representative for Artist Films’ International 2025.

This WGSS event is co-sponsored by the Hood Museum of Art and the Studio Art Department.