K8 Hardy is a founding member of the queer feminist artist collective and journal LTTR.
12 Facts About K8 Hardy
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K8 Hardy was born on October 27,1977, in Fort Worth, Texas.
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K8 Hardy uses the moniker "K8" as shorthand for her first name which she adopted while publishing zines in high school.
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K8 Hardy studied video with Elisabeth Subrin through the Five College Consortium.
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K8 Hardy went on to receive an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College in 2008.
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In 2001, K8 Hardy co-founded LTTR, a genderqueer feminist art collective in New York.
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In 2004, K8 Hardy performed Beautiful Radiating Energy, at Reena Spaulings.
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In 2017, K8 Hardy re-staged the performance at Participant Inc with artist Raul de Nieves as the performer.
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That same year, K8 Hardy performed Bare Life with the musician and sound artist Stefan Tcherepnin.
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K8 Hardy exhibited several sculptures and photographs in the 2012 Whitney Biennial.
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Alongside the sculptures and photographs, K8 Hardy organized a performance called Untitled Runway Show on the exhibition's fourth-floor.
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In 2020, K8 Hardy exhibited a single ten-foot-long green, yellow, and pink-colored painting, resembling a maxi pad, at Reena Spaulings New York.