MIT’s October 165: A Questionnaire on Monuments features Cassils’s “Becoming An Image”. “A Questionnaire on Monuments” features 49 responses to questions formulated by Leah Dickerman, Hal Foster, David Joselit, and Carrie Lambert-Beatty: “From…
PRESS HIGHLIGHTS
Cassils Covers “Oxford History of Art”
Cassils’ “Homage to Benglis” from CUTS: A Traditional Sculpture” has made it to the cover…
Cassils Featured in Places Journal’s “Unbuilding Gender”
Jack Halberstam discusses Becoming An Image in Places Journal. “Cassils was seeking to draw attention…
Cassils featured in Critic’s Picks for Artforum
“In this solo exhibition comprising primarily live performances and installations, the Los Angeles–based and gender-nonconforming…
“MONUMENTAL” Featured in New York Times, Huffington Post
Photo: Cassils with Robyn Beck; Courtesy of the artist and Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York.…
PRESS ARCHIVE
- David J. Getsy on Cassils, David Getsy, Artforum, February 2018
- Cassils Swears To Be Your Citizen Artist, DJ Fraser, Canadian Art, January 2018
- Wanted: Clean Urine Free of Toxicity, Heartlessness, or Prejudice, Eva Barragan, Flaunt, January 2018
- Best of 2017: Our Top 20 Exhibitions Across the United States, Hyperallergic, January 2018
- These Trans and Queer Artists Are Challenging Popular Notions of Strength, Zachary Small, Artsy, October 17, 2017
- 2017’s Breakout Artists Brought Marginalized Identity to the Fore, Sarah Burke, Broadly, December 21, 2017
- United States Artists Names 2018 Fellows, Including Dread Scott, Pepón Osorio, and Cassils, Maximiliano Duran, Artnews, January 16, 2018
- What is the Most Iconic Artwork of the 21st Century?, Gonzalo Casals, Artnet, September 29, 2017
- This Queer Artist Collected 200 Gallons of Urine to Protest Federal Trans Bathroom Guidelines, Hugh Ryan, OUT Magazine, September 26, 2017
- Gender-Fluid Artists Come Out of the Gray Zone, Hilarie M Sheets, New York Times, September 15, 2017
- The Powerful Reason Why This Artist Has Been Saving His Urine for the Past 200 Days, Noah Michelson, Huffington Post, September 16, 2017
- A 1900-Pound Sculpture Pushed Through the Streets of Omaha in Tribute to Its LGBTQ History, Karen Emenhiser-Harris, Hyperallergic, May 3, 2017
- Cassils “Phantom Revenant” Critic’s Pick, Alpesh Kantilal Pate, Artforum
- Finding the Gray in Black and White, Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, September 29, 2016
- “The art that comes from bodybuilding and death-defying stunts ”, Elio Iannacci, Maclean’s, July 4, 2016
- “Interview: Cassils”, Francesca Gavin, KALEIDOSCOPE, Issue #27 Summer 2016
- “NEWS ACTUAL REVOLUTION: CHELSEA’S JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY TRANSFORMS INTO HEADQUARTERS FOR AN ARTIST-RUN SUPER PAC”, Alex Greenberger, Art News, June 8, 2016
- “Why was this trans artist’s portrait banned in germany?”, Hannah Ongley, i-D Vice, May 13, 2016
- Exhibitionists, Canadian Broadcasting Corportation, Season 1, Episode 24, April 17
- “Trans Performance Artist Fights an Invisible Oppressor, But Who?”, Priscilla Frank, Huffington Post, April 5, 2016
- Press Play with Madeleine Brand, KCRW Radio, Los Angeles, CA, April 1, 2016
- Transformers Brian Droitcour, Spike Art Quarterly 47, Spring Issue
- “Transgender studies joins forces with art history in a new book from Chicagoan,” Ross Forman, Windy City Media Group
- Cassils: Transgender Artist Goes to Extremes Stephen Heyman, New York Times International, November 18, 2015
- Artist Heather Cassils is set on fire – and opens our eyes to violence Lyn Gardner, The Guardian, November 9, 2015
- We watched an artist set fire to themselves on stage Rowland Manthorpe, WIRED UK, November 7, 2015
- Menina ou Menino?, Ana Carolina Ralston, Vogue Brasil, October 2015
- Fire In The Belly: Trans Artist Cassils Immolates For Art, Kris Grey, Huffington Post Gay Voices, June 2015, Web
- Highlights from the Creative Capital Retreat: Part two, Paddy Johnson. Art F City. August 2015
- 12 L.A. Artists Awarded Creative Capital Artist Grants, Carolina A. Miranda. LA Times
- The Artists Subverting the Gender Binary, Peter Yeung. Dazed & Confused Magazine. December 2014
- Desire and Karios: Cassils Terisias, Maurya Wickstrom, The Drama Review
- Tiresias by Heather Cassils, Megan Hoetger, Performance Research Journal, Vol. 19, Issue 3
- Racy, Experimental Art from the Transgender Vanguard, Mitch Kellaway, ADVOCATE
- Projected Personae: Show Focuses On Human Body As Art Medium, Kimberly Chun, San Francisco Chronicle
- Trans* Kao Stalno Postajanje, Matija Mrakovčić. Kulturpunkt (Croatia)
- A Survey Of Queer Feminist Artists Who Are Challenging Today’s ‘Body Oppression, Katherine Brooks, The Huffington Post
- 10 Transgendered Artists Who Are Changing the Landscape of Contemporary Art, Priscilla Frank, The Huffington Post
- Queer Formalisim: Jennifer Doyle and David Getsey in Conversation, by Jennifer Doyle and David Getsy, Art Journal
- Interview with Jian Ghomeshi, Q, CBC Radio (Canada)
- Body As Canvas: Videos Get Physical- Literally, Fran Schechter, NOW Magazine (Canada)
- Heather Cassils, Alex Jovanovich, Artforum Magazine (Best of 2013)
- Clay: Heather Cassils’ Becoming An Image, Amy Albracht, C File Magazine
- Heather Cassils: The Transgendered Body Builder Attacks Heaps of Clay, Nell Friezzell The Guardian (UK)
- Artsy Editorial. Bodybuilder Artist Heather Cassils Channels Lynda Benglis and Eleanor Antin, Artsy Online Editorial
- The Terminatrix, Blake Gopnick, The Daily Beast
- Cassils: Body Of Work, Kris Grey, Original Plumbing Magazine
- Jason Collins’ Coming Out Breaks New Ground For Gay Rights Trend. Huffington Post
- Bashing Binaries—Along with 2000 Pounds of Clay, Heather Cassils, Huffington Post
- Live Art Review, Dora Mortimer, Diva Magazine (UK)
- Becoming An Image At the National Theater Studio, Bojana Jankovic, Exeunt Magazine (UK)
- Material Traces: Time and the Gesture in Contemporary Art, Joseph Henry, Esse Magazine (Canada)
- LGBT Athletes: 27 Players Who Have Come Out Of The Closet, Huffington Post.
- Material Traces: Process, Matter, and Interrelationality in Contemporary Art, Amelia Jones, Catalogue Concordia University
- X Tra Magazine, Re-performance: History as and Experience to Be Had; Los Angeles Goes Live: Performance Art in Southern California 1970-1983, Megan Hoteger
- Transgender Day of Remembrance: 50 Transgendered Icons, Huffington Post
- LGBT History Month: 30 LGBT Artists and Performers to Follow, Huffington Post
- Kehon muuttaminen muuttaa katseuta. Review of Cuts: Teresias by Heather Cassils, Veera Jaakelainen, Perjantaina (Finland)
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- California Dreamin’, Linda Yablonsky, Artfourm Magazine
- Cuts A Traditional Sculpture, Heather Cassils, Huffington Post
- Heather Cassils Gets Ripped for LACE Performance Art Show, Catherine Wagley, LA Weekly
- Our Hot 25 List: Locals Who Influence and Inspire Us, Michael Anthony, Arron Drake, Leslet Goldberg, Stephan Horbelt, Karen Ocamb, Frontiers Magazine
- Inside Story, Louise Carolin, Diva Magazine
- 16th Annual Out 100, Out Magazine
- Art Protest-Toxic Titties, Joey Tang, Black Book Magazine
- Basement Revelry, Nancy Rommelmann, Los Angeles Times
- 24 Hour Party People, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, LA Weekly
- Tropa Toxica, Edgar-Alejandro Hernandez, Reforma (Mexico)
- Dinner Reservations, Joze Munoz, Tema Celeste
- Boob Tube Cube, Jade Chang, LA Weekly
- Experimental Art Takes to the Streets, Scott Timberg, Los Angeles Times
- Die Starken eines Bundnisses, Susanne Boecker, Kolner Stadanzeiger. (Germany)