Jennifer Locke

Working in video and installation-based performance, Jennifer Locke composes physically intense actions in relation to the camera and specific architecture, in order to explore the unstable hierarchies between artist, model, camera, and audience. Her actions focus on cycles of physicality and visibility, and draw from her experiences as a professional dominatrix, champion submission wrestler, and artists’ model. Locke’s work has exhibited in venues such as the 2010 California Biennial; 48th Venice Biennale; Air de Paris, Paris; the 9th Havana Biennial; the Basel Art Fair; La Panaderia, Mexico City; Palais de Beaux-Arts, Brussels; Canada, New York; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; the Berkeley Art Museum; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.  She has curated for Artists’ Television Access, Rocksbox, and Queens Nails Annex, co-produced a cable access show, and sung in punk bands. Locke received the 2006 Chauncey McKeever Award, a 2010 Goldie, and a 2012 Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship.