VALS Lecture – Tourmaline – Tuesday September 11, 6:30pm

Tourmaline is a filmmaker whose work includes Atlantic is a Sea of Bones, The Personal Things, Lost in the Music and Happy Birthday, Marsha! She is also an editor of TRAP DOOR, an anthology on trans cultural production published by the New Museum & MIT Press.

Tourmaline makes film and installed video that highlights the capacity of black queer/trans social life to impact the world while living what is simultaneously an invisible—and hypervisible—existence. The throughline of her filmmaking focuses on everyday people and their mundane creative acts that blur the lines and liens of what constitutes public

She received a BA from Columbia University and is the recipient of the 2018 Publishing Triangle Award, 2017 HBO & Queer/Art Prize and 2016 Art Matters Foundation Grant.

Her work has been presented across the world including at the MOMA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum, MOCA LA, Brooklyn Museum, BAM Cinema and the New Museum and has appeared in Vogue Magazine, the New York Times, the New Yorker, Artforum, Culture Magazine, Art in America and Teen Vogue.