Ron Athey
mrron.athey@gmail.com

PERFORMANCES

OCT19 Acephalous Monster UK Tour: Glasgow CCA, Colchester Arts Centre, Norwich Arts Centre, CLAY Leeds, NIAMOS Manchester, ToynBee Hall London, Cambridge Junction

JULY19 Darkness Visible, automatism workshop and group performance, Festival Arte/Accion at Museum de la Ciudad de Mexico

JUNE19 Acephalous Monster, NNI in Riga Latvia; Skopje Pride Week at the Macedonian Mu- seum of Contemporary Art

JUNE19 Invitation to Yin Yang, 3 movements actions with boychild, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria MAY19 Acephalous Monster, Trouble Festival, Brussels Belgium
DEC18 Cyclic, collaboration with Cassils and Faana, MOCA Tucson at Biosphere 2
NOV18 Acephalous Monster - commission and premiere at Performance Space New York

JUNE18 Dolores: Our Lady of the 7 Sorrows - co-curated Happening with the late Nacho Nava, at Votex Studios, Los Angeles
FEB18 “L’s G. A.” Solo performer in Salvatore Martirano composition, Green Umbrella, LA Philharmonic at Disney Concert Hall
JAN18 Gifts of the Spirit, writer and performer in collaboration with Opera Povera, Broad Museum and Mike Kelley Foundation at the Cathedral of Vibiana
JAN16 “Invitation to Yin Yang”, selected scenes and preview of new performance with Divinity Fudge, USC’s Live Artist Live at Human Resources Los Angeles
APR15 Sebastiane, at the Coronet Theatre London; and Bunker of Arts, Rome
JAN15 Incorruptible Flesh: Messianic Remains at Performaturium, Regina Canada
NOV14 Incorruptible Flesh: Messianic Remains at Spill Festival, Ipswich; and Glasgay at the Arches, Glasgow
SEPT14 Sebastiane, OTOMO, Nancy France
JUNE14 Incorruptible Flesh: Messianic Remains ]performancespace[ London
MARCH14 Sebastiane, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
FEB14 Sebastiane, Defibrilator Gallery at MANA Contemporary, Chicago
FEB14 Incorruptible Flesh: Messianic Remains, Defibrilator Gallery at MANA, Chicago

JULY13 Gifts of the Spirit/Automatic Writing, Participant Inc. NYC
JULY13 Incorruptible Flesh: Messianic Remains Grace Space, Brooklyn
JULY13 Incorruptible Flesh: Messianic Remains, Human Resoures, Los Angeles
JUNE13 Incorruptible Flesh: Messianic Rmeains, Performance Studies International, Stanford

JUNE12 St/Sebastian/50, Teatro Sergio Porto, Rio Brazil
APR12 Gifts of the Spirit/Automatic Writing, Fierce!festival Birmingham UK
DEC11 Resonate/Obliterate, Participant Gallery, NYC

NOV11 Self-Oblit I&II, Emmetrop, Bourges, France
SEPT11 St/Sebastian/50, Borderline Bienale, Lyon France
JUNE11 Automatic Writing/Gifts of the Spirit, Centre for Study of Surrealism and Its Legacies, Manchester, UK
MAR11 Self-Oblit I&II, Galerija Kapelica, Ljubljana, Slovenia
NOV10 Automatic Writing: Study and Score, GMUL Great Hall, London
MARCH10 Self-Obliterations I, II & III, National Review of Live Art, Glasgow
JULY09 Self-Olbiterations I & II: Ecstatic & Sustained Rapture, ARTE ES ACCION II, Madrid

JUN09 Self-Obliteration/Sky Remains the Same, wit Julie Tolentino, House of World Cultures, Berlin
JUN09 A History of Ecstasy, MADRE museum Naples, Italy
APR09 Visions of Excess, co-curation w/Lee Adams; Self-Obliteration performances. Spill Festival, London
FEB09 Self-Obliteration, at Resonate/Obliterate IE, Sweeney Gallery, Riverside
JAN09 Auto Da Fe, Self-Obliteration at Politics of Ecstasy Festival, Hebbel Theater, Berlin

OCT08 Self-Obliteration – solo performance, Teatr Dramatyczny, Warsaw, Poland
SEPT08 Self-Obliteration – Gallerie SAW, Ottawa; Centre Clarke, Montreal
SEPT08 The Judas Cradle, Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec
JULY08 Resonate/Obliterate, Remy’s on Temple, Los Angeles
APR08 Self-Obliteration – solo performance, Donau Festival, Krems Austria
APR08 Self-Obliteration – solo performance, Portland OR, and Open Space, Victoria, Canada

OCT07 Self-Obliteration – solo performance, Souterrain Porte IV festival, Nancy, France

OCT07 Self-Obliteration - solo performance, La Demeure du Chaos, Lyon, France
JUN07 Self-Obliteration – solo performance – premiere, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, U.K.

JUN07 Re/Visions of Excess –co-curated w/Lee Adams, Fierce Festival, Birmingham, U.K.

MAY07 Incorruptible Flesh: Perpetual Wound – collaboration with Dominic Johnson, Fierce Festival, Birmingham U.K.
APR07 Incorruptible Flesh: Perpetual Wound – premiere - collaboration with Dominic Johnson, Chelsea Theatre (co-commission with Fierce Festival), London
NOV06 Incorruptible Flesh – collaboration with Dominic Johnson, Chelsea Theatre, London JUNE06 Solar Anus – Hayward Gallery, London
MAY06 Incorruptible Flesh [Dissociative Sparkle] – durational performance, Artists Space, NYC
FEB06 Incorruptible Flesh [Dissociative Sparkle] – durational performance, National Review of Live Art, The Arches, Glasgow
FEB06 The Judas Cradle – excerpts of operatic duodrama with Juliana Snapper, Sex Matters: Sexualities Across the Disciplines Conference, UC Riverside

NOV05 The Judas Cradle – operatic duodrama with Juliana Snapper, PERFORMA 05 at Participant Inc., New York City

JULY05 The Judas Cradle – REDCAT/Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
APR-MAY05 The Judas Cradle –(Granary Theatre) Cork, Ireland; (Chapter Arts Center) Cardiff, Wales; (Colchester Arts Center); (291 Gallery) London; (Contact Theatre) Manchester; (Fierce Festival/Warwick Arts Centre) Warwick; (CCA) Glasgow.
DEC04 The Judas Cradle excerpt – Aksioma Festival (Castle Codelli) Ljubljana, Slovenia

JULY04 The Judas Cradle excerpt – Cetrone Studio, Los Angeles
JULY2002 Joyce – 3 screen large format video with 4 actors, 50 mins., Fierce Festival: Birmingham, Glasgow (CCA) and London (Stratford Theater)
JAN-FEB02 Joyce Production residency and world premiere. (Kampnagel) Hamburg, Germany

OCT01 Pleading In The Blood: Video/Lecture w/performance excerpt. Leipzig, Germany

MAY01 Pleading In The Blood, (Festival Musica 90) Turin, Italy
JAN01 The Solar Anus + excerpt from JOYCE (Kanonhallen), Copenhagen, Denmark
DEC00 The Solar Anus – performance, video + Sebastian Suspended (Body Probe) London

APR00 3 Solos: Solar Anus, St. Sebastian, Suicide (teatropolivalenteoccupato) Bologna, Italy

FEB00 The Solar Anus (NGBK) Berlin, Germany
FEB00 The Solar Anus (RISD) Providence, Rhode Island
JAN00 3 Solos: Solar Anus, St. Sebastian, Suicide (Highways) Santa Monica, CA
AUG99 3 Solos: Solar Anus, St. Sebastian, Suicide (Forum des Images) Paris, France
APR99 The Solar Anus (HT Gallery) Chicago
APR99 The Solar Anus, (Mobius) Boston
FEB99 The Solar Anus (Hothouse) Chicago
FEB99 The Solar Anus (FIST), London
FEB99 The Solar Anus (The Victoria Room) San Francisco
JAN99 The Solar Anus (Centre des Arts Saidye Bronfman) Montreal, Canada
DEC98 The Solar Anus (Action=Space), downtown L.A.
NOV98 The Solar Anus (Matthew Marks Gallery), New York City
NOV98 The Solar Anus (Luciano Inga-Pin) Milan, Italy
OCT98 The Solar Anus (Galerija Kapelica), Ljubljana, Slovenia
SEPT98: Trojan Whore – memorial piece for Leigh Bowery (La Videotheque) Paris
JAN98: Trojan Whore + excerpts Deliverance (Rexane) Rotterdam Intl Film Fest
NOV97: Pleading In The Blood, Performance, video, (Chapter Arts Centre) Cardiff,Wales

OCT97 Pleading In The Blood. Lecture,video,performance,(Fotofeis) Glasgow
JULY97: Deliverance (Inteatro XX; festival of new theatre) Polverigi, Italy
JUNE97: Deliverance and Incorruptible Flesh (Cankarjev Dom); Ljubljana, Slovenia
JUNE97 Deliverance and Incorruptible Flesh (Eurokaz Festival); Zagreb, Croatia

MAY97: 4 Scenes In A Harsh Life ( L'Aeronef) Lille; (Pez Ner) Lyon; (Bite Generation) Nantes, France

NOV96: Deliverance (Sigma Festival), Bordeaux, France
OCT96 Deliverance (Schmidt Theater), Hamburg, Germany
OCT96 Deliverance (Kaaitheater) Brussells, Belgium
JULY96: Deliverance (Triple X Festival at Westergasfabriek) Amsterdam FEB96: Incorruptible Flesh and research residency (CCA) Glasgow

DEC95: Deliverance, world premiere (Rapture season, ICA commission) London NOV95 Four Scenes In A Harsh Life, Martyrs&Saints, and Deliverance, Kanonhallen, Copenhagen
OCT95 Martyrs&Saints, Four Scenes In A Harsh Life (Ex-Teresa) Mexico City
JULY95 The Trojan Whore, tribute to Leigh Bowery. (Matthew Marks Gallery); NYC
MAY95 Four Scenes In A Harsh Life (Festival Atlantico) Lisbon, Portugal
MARCH95 Four Scenes In A Harsh Life (The Green Room) Manchester
APRIL95 Four Scenes In A Harsh Life (Center on Contemporary Arts) Glasgow
DEC94: Deliverance Work-in-progress (Highways) Santa Monica
OCT94: Four Scenes In A Harsh Life (Performance Space 122) New York City
JULY94 Four Scenes In A Harsh Life (Institute of Contemporary Arts) London, England MARCH94 Four Scenes In A Harsh Life (Walker Art Center) Minneapolis MN
OCT93: Four Scenes InA Harsh Life (Los Angeles Theater Center) LA; and (Highways Performance Space), Santa Monica, CA
JUNE93 Martyrs & Saints (Performance Space 122) New York City
MAY93 Martyrs & Saints (Randolph Street Gallery) Chicago
NOV92: Martyrs & Saints premiere (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) Los Angeles APR92 Surgical Stigmata (Highways Performance Space) Santa Monica CA
MAR 82 Premature Ejaculation (Arts Building), Los Angeles
OCT 81 Premature Ejaculation (Arts Building), Los Angeles

VISUAL ART EXHIBITIONS/VIDEO INSTALLATIONS

2015: photographs, Art AIDS America, Tacoma Art Museum

2013: “The Sky Remains The Same”, self-obliteration relics and photos/live archive w/Julie To- lentino, New Museum/Performa 13, NYC

2012: wood-cut prints, “Seance”, artist-of-the-month-club, Invisible-Exports Gallery NYC 2012: hair-towel installation, The Displaced Person, Invisible-Exports Gallery NYC

2010: Photographs and sculptures, group show, MOCA, Los Angeles

2010: Resonate/Obliterate, photographs, group show, The Nunnery Gallery, London

2009: Ecstatic, Homoccult screening, Horse Hospital, London

2008: selected videos, solo show, Centre Clarke, Montreal

2008Ecstatic, video screening, Endurance Festival, VIVID, Birminham, UK

2007: Ecstatic, video screening, MIX fest, New York

2006: Video Stills and Set Pieces from an Opera, solo show, Western-Project, L.A.

2006: In This House That I Call Home, group show, Western-Project, L.A.

2004: St. Sebastian: A Splendid Readiness for Death, group show, Kunsthalle, Wien

2004: Large Format Polaroid (Crown) and installation “Crown and Pedestal”, group show, Western-Project, L.A.

2001: Ronnie Lee, video installation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp

2000: Large Format Polaroids, w/Catherine Opie, Thread Waxing Space, NYC

1999: The Bathroom Show, painting, group show at New Image Art, Los Angeles

1999: Rosso Vivo, photographs, group show, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milano

1998: Hollywood Satan, crown and Pedestal installation, group show at Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica

1998: Fuck You, We Paint, group show at New Image Art, Los Angeles

1996: Incorruptible Flesh, solo exhibition of relics, artifacts, costumes, and fountain with ficti- tious identities. ACME gallery, Santa Monica

1997: Human Printing Press, video installation, Philadelphia Museum of Art

1996: Homosexual Overkill, photos and video installation, group show, Rita Dean Gallery, San Diego

1995: The Human Printing Press, video installation of documentation with and scarification im- prints. Persistent Dispositions/Technotronic Identities, group show. Cal Arts

1994: The Human Printing Press scarification imprints. Flesh and Ciphers, group show. HERE Foundation; NYC

1994: The Human Printing Press, video installation of documentation with and scarification im- prints. Sanctuary (moth to the flame), group show. TZ'Art & Co.; NYC

1994: Four Scenes: Storyboards, collage and photographic documentation. An Inquisition, group show; Radix Gallery, Phoenix, AZ

1993: Four Scenes: Storyboards, collage and photo documentation. Co-Conspirators, group show. James Corcoran Gallery Santa Monica

TEACHING AND SELECTED WORKSHOPS

2017 Roski School USC, seminar on LA-centric Counter Cultures and Avante Gardes 2015-2016 Cal Arts, dept. Photo & Media, performance-for-camera class and MFA seminar,

visiting faculty.
2004 - UCLA, fall quarter MFA grad seminar, Performance Art class 2000 - Cal Arts, Performance Practicum

Residencies

2015 Centenary College, Shreveport LA, visiting artist, public lecture plus “Religion and the Body” seminar

2010 Centre for the History of Emotion at Queen Mary University of London, Leverhulme Trust sponsored, artist in residence

2011 Department of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London, artist in resi- dence

1995 Centre on Contemporary Art, Glasgow, research residency for “Incoruptible Flesh”, re- search director Francis McKee

Workshops

2019 Darkness Visible, Festival Arte/Accion at Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, 20 participants, automatic writing, hypnosis, walking meditation, human compass, solo performances.

2013 Automatic Writing, Participant Inc., NYC, 30 participants, 3 days plus performance. 2012 Automatic Writing, Birmingham, U.K. Fierce Festival, 30 participants , 3 days plus per-

formance.
2011 Automatic Writing, Manchester, U.K. Whitworth Hall/University of Manchester/Centre

for the Study of Surrealism and Its Legacies, 30 particpants, 3 days plus performance. 2010 Automatic Writing, London, QMUL/Great Hall, 30 particpants, 3 days plus performance

premiere.
2009 CENDEAC, seminar, Murcia Spain
2009 You Belong To Me: Art and the Ethics of Presence, week-long workshop for performance

artists at UC Riverside/Sweeney Gallery.

2008 Praxis Mojave, various locations in California desert, 10 day immersive performance workshop collaboration with Julie Tolentino, and workshop support from Juliana Snapper (sound design) and Marcia McLane (desert field geologist).

1995 Performance workshop, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, 2 days with 20 stu- dents

Visiting Artist Lectures

SAIC, SFAI, MOMA, MOCA L.A.; Getty Center, Medievalists; Université de Québec à Mont- real,; Lyon University; Dartington University, Devon; Queen Mary University, London; University of Manchester; Courtauld Institute, London; National Review of Live Art, Glasgow; Australian Museum, Sydney; New Walk Museum, Leicester; University of Sussex; Goldsmiths, London; Chelsea, London; Central St. Martins, London; Tate Modern, London; Visiting Artist Lecture, Cal Arts; Art Center, Pasadena; Otis, L.A; CSUNorthridge; Occidental College, L.A.; USC; Hammer Museum; National Performance Network - New Orleans; Hemispheric Institute NYC; Foundation Art Resources (FAR); Center for Drama Studies, Zagreb; MALBA, Buenos Aires; Centro Cultural HANGAR, Queretaro MX

VIDEOS/DOCUMENTARIES

2019 Entering the Forest of Acephale 10 minute video for the Estate of Jon John 2015 Sebastiane, performance for Camera, with director Graham Kolbeins
2014 The Balcony, performer 4 channel video, dir. Lauren Williams
2013 The Hollow Bone, performer, short film, dir. Hermes Pittakos

2007 Ecstatic, performance for camera, Cyril Kuhn
2006 The Judas Cradle, interactive DVD, filmmaker Lisa Cazzato-Vierya
2001 Ron’s Story, documentary; filmmaker Davide Grassi
2001 Solar Anus, documentary; filmmaker Cyril Kuhn
2000 No One Sleeps, actor; filmmaker Jochen Hick
2000 Shadow Hours, art direction and actor; producer Balthazar Getty
1999 Hot Men/Kool Boyz, actor/narrator; Zentropa Films
1998 Hallelujah! Ron Athey: A Story of Deliverance, documentary; Catherine Gund 1997 Ron Athey: It's Scripted: 20 minute documentary; filmmaker Ian Kerkhof 1997 Sex Lives In L.A.: documentary; filmmaker Jochen Hick
1997 Martyrs & Saints, 29 min. documentary; filmmaker Simeon Hutner

1996 Hustler White: actor; directed by Bruce la Bruce and Rick Castro 1994 A Little Sadness: director and actor; Porno for Pyros/music video 1993 The Blind Owl: actor; directed by Reza Abdoh


PROGRAMMING/CURATION

2001-2002, July: Athey and Vaginal Davis have co-curated Platinum Oasis, an installation/ac- tionist event as part of OUTFEST Los Angeles. The durational site-specific work took place in July of 2001 and 2002.

2003: The Fierce Festival presented “Visions of Excess” in Birmingham, U.K. The events fea- tured an international lineup of artists, filmmakers, actors, and musicians including Kembra Pfahler (US), Bruce La Bruce (Canada), Udo Kier (Germany), Franko B. (UK), Kira O’Reilly (UK), Osseus Labyrint (US), Davide Grassi (Slovenia), Ann Magnuson (US), Velvet Hammer Burlesque (US), Lydia Lunch (US), Slava Mogutin (Russia).

2004 “Visions of Excess” with same lineup plus Slovenian artists was presented in Ljubljana as a coproduction with Aksioma.

2007, 2009 The event continued as “Re/Visions of Excess,” co-curated with Lee Adams in Birmingham (June 2007) , and in London as part of the Spill Festival (Easter weekend 2009). And finally Copenhagen at Warehouse 9 (2009).

2009: Athey and Julie Tolentino curated a series of showcases that featured Julie’s live archive, “The Sky Remains the Same,” and invited guest artists: At Remy’s on Temple in historic Filipino-town, Los Angeles, Juliana Snapper and Franko B., at UC Riverside we invited Zackary Drucker and Cassils.

2014: London’s Horse Hospital venue, Athey started curated a series of 4 artists in performance/ light sculpture/sound based arts called “Xenolalia.”

2015 (July): “Xenolalia” continued at Human Resources

2017: Oracle Summer Happening at the Broad Museum, featuring Linda Mary Montano and Keijaun Thomas

2018: Dolores: Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows, at The Vortex, L.A., performance and music showcase featuring Missa Blue, Little Annie, Sancha, Austyn Rich and Arshia Fatima Haq

GRANTS/AWARDS/COMMISSIONS

2019 Religon and the Arts Award from the American Academy of Religion (AAR)

2019 English Arts Council - touring grant for city Acephalous Monster UK tour 2019 Artadia
2019 Artadia Los Angeles grant for Visual Artists

2019 California Community Foundation

2018 Art Matters
2017 Mike Kelley Foundation (received by Volume, Pasadena) for Gifts of the Spirit opera 2015 English Arts Council production grant for Sebastiane at the Coronet Theatre, London

2014 English Arts Council development grant for Incorruptible Flesh: Messianic Remainsat ]performancespace[ London

2010 Air aritist-in-residence at Queen Mary University, Dept. of Drama, November commission

2010 Leverhulme Trust, artist-in-residence at Queen Mary University’s Center for the History of Emotions, Feb-July

2006 Chelsea Theatre/Fierce Festival – commission, Incorruptible Flesh

2005 Arts Councils of Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales – commission The Judas Cradle

2002 Production residency grant for Joyce – Kampnagel - Hamburg

2000 Alliance for the Arts/Estate Project for Artists w/AIDS – collaboration with Catherine Opie to create Large Format Polaroids

1998 & 99: Agnes B. - sponsorship grant for Forum des Images performances in Paris 1996 Center on Contemporary Arts - Glasgow - research residency
1995 Live Arts Dept. ICA - London, commission for Deliverance
1994 PEN Center West Award for HIV/AIDS writers

1994 Peter Norton Family Foundation for Four Scenes performance at PS122 in NYC 1994 Art Matters Inc., performance grant

WRITING AND JOURNALISM

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Life of Ron Athey was published by Intellect Press, Bristol, UK, in 2013; edited by Dominic Johnson, monograph. This included essays and photos, and some of Athey’s writings from “Gifts of the Spirit,” a collection of short stories and recollections based on his training to be a Pentecostal minister, and the accompanying perversions.

Athey’s writings have been anthologized in Strategic Sex, editor D. Travers Scott, Haworth Press; Unnatural Disasters: Recent Writings from the Golden State, editor Nicole Panter, published by Incommunicado Press; Out of Character, editor Mark Russell; Acting on AIDS, editors Oppenheimer and Reckitt, Serpent's Tail; LIVE Culture, “Reading Sister Aimee,” Tate Modern publications.

Athey has written for various publications including the LA Weekly, Paper (NYC), Village Voice, Virus Mutations (Milan), Honcho, Details and The Advocate.

Other writings included in artist monographs include Franko B.’s Still Life, Manuel Vason’s En- counters, Marcel Antunez-Roca’s Hard Wired entry for the ICA London, and Matthias Herrmann’s Hotel series IV.

COMING THIS YEAR:

1. New monograph: Queer Communion, The Art of Ron Athey, November 2019 on Intellect Press, to function as a catalogue for the same. Named show

2. Queer Communication, a survey from the archive: curated by art historians Amelia Jones and Andy Campbell, this show will include papers, photos, sculptures, costumes and set pieces, from 1981-current. Opening at Participant Inc. in NYC in September 2020, end of year at MOCA Tucson, 2021 at ICA-LA. This will include a program of video screenings and live performances, plus related exhibitions at adjacent spaces.

3. October 2019 UK tour of Acephalous Monster: Glasgow, Leeds, Norwich, Bristol, Manchester, Colchester, London, and Cambridge. Made possible with a touring grant from the English Arts Council.