Hazel meyer biography

 

Hazel Meyer is an artist who works with installation, performance, and text to investigate the relationships between sexuality, feminism, and material culture. Her work aims to recover the queer aesthetics, politics, and bodies often effaced within histories of infrastructure, athletics, and illness. Drawing on archival research, she designs immersive installations that bring various troublemakers—lesbians-feminists, gender outlaws, leather-dykes—into a performative space that centres desire, queerness, and sweat. Recent activations of her work have taken place at La Ferme du Buisson (FR) 2019, Glasgow International Art Biennial (SCT) 2018, Art Gallery of Windsor (CA) 2019, MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) (QC) 2019, Progress Festival (CA) 2020, and at the Porn Film Festival Berlin (DE) 2019. Hazel presently lives in Vancouver, on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh and Səl̓ílwətaɬ Nations with their frequent collaborator and partner Cait McKinney and dog Regie Concordia.

Image: Hazel Meyer, Hands Ready, 2015. Publication for “no pressure, no diamonds”. Photo: courtesy of artist.

Image: Hazel Meyer, Hands Ready, 2015. Publication for “no pressure, no diamonds”. Photo: courtesy of artist.