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Chris Vargas

Chris E. Vargas is a video maker & interdisciplinary artist whose work deploys humor and performance in conjunction with mainstream idioms to explore the complex ways that queer and trans people negotiate spaces for themselves within historical & institutional memory and popular culture. Vargas is the Executive Director of MOTHA, the Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art, a critical and conceptual arts & hirstory institution highlighting the contributions of trans art to the cultural and political landscape.

  • Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects

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    • Chris Vargas

    The artist Chris Vargas is the founder and self-appointed director of The Museum of Trans Hirstory & Art (MOTHA), a conceptual museum forever “under construction.” His outstanding work has inspired an ongoing research and teaching project on trans…