About

b. 1988 Overland Park, Kansas, raised in Maplewood, New Jersey, lives in Brooklyn, New York

Short Bio:

Buzz Slutzky (they/them) is a non-binary/transgender and Jewish multidisciplinary artist, educator, writer, filmmaker, and performer based in Brooklyn, New York. Their work uses intimacy and humor to bring juiciness into narrative. Buzz’s practice often juxtaposes text and image through film/video, drawing, performance, pyrography (woodburning) and other mediums. Slutzky has exhibited work at BRIC, The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Cooper Union, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), The Leslie Lohman Museum, Boston Center for the Arts, La Mama, Dixon Place, the MIX Film Festival, Frameline, among others. They are a 2022 MacDowell Fellow, and a 2021-22 BRICLab resident. They currently teach filmmaking at The New School and School of Visual Arts (SVA).

Long Bio:

Buzz Slutzky (they/them) is a non-binary/transgender and Jewish multidisciplinary artist, educator, writer, and performer based in Brooklyn, New York. Their work is variably autobiographical and historical, such as their Anne Frank/Justin Beiber mash-up, Religious Beliebs. Buzz’s practice juxtaposes text and image through video, drawing, performance, pyrography (woodburning) and other mediums. Buzz’s video Clothes Feelings (2016), which was exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, uses loose drawings of clothing with voiceover anecdotes to explore their humorous experiences navigating gender presentation as a non-binary person.

Slutzky has exhibited, performed, and screened work at The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Cooper Union, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), The Leslie Lohman Museum, Boston Center for the Arts, La Mama, MIX, Frameline, among others. Mentions of Slutzky’s work have appeared in Artforum, Vice, Art F City, ArtNews, Observer, Hyperallergic, and The New York Times. Buzz has also co/organized art exhibitions relating to queerness, humor, politics, and history, including the Pop-Up Museum of Queer History (2011), Hysterically Accurate: Comedic Critiques of History (2015), and Queering Space at Yale (2016). Slutzky earned their BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 2010, and their MFA from Parsons the New School for Design in 2015, after which, they were a resident at the Vermont Studio Center (2015) and the NARS Foundation (2017), and participated in the Triple Canopy Publication Intensive (2018). 

Buzz was a 2021-2022 BricLAB video art resident and a 2022 MacDowell Colony fellow. They currently teach video at The New School and School of Visual Arts (SVA).

CONTACT: BUZZSLUTZKY@GMAIL.COM

Buzz Slutzky curriculum vitae

EDUCATION

2015 MFA Parsons The New School for Design, Fine Arts

MFA Thesis on Anne Frank and Justin Bieber

The New School University Merit Award, 2013-2014

2010 BA, Sarah Lawrence College

Visual Art, Art History, Social History

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2024

Adjunct Faculty, Department of Photography and Video, School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York City

Courses: Video 1

2022-present

Adjunct Faculty, School of Media Studies, The New School, New York City

Courses taught: Cinematography and Lighting (Spring 2022), Aesthetics of Directing (Fall 2022 and Fall 2023), Film 1 (Fall 2023), Film 3: Advanced Pre-production / Screenwriting (Spring 2024)

2019-2022

Teaching Artist / Museum Educator, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, New York City.

Museum tours and discussions, Multi-session Workshops in public schools

2018-2022

Adjunct Instructor, SUNY Purchase College, Purchase, NY.

Course taught: Lens & Time

(Foundations program: photography, video, HTML/CSS web coding, social practice, and web-based interventions)

Fall 2019

Adjunct MFA mentor, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA (low residency)

Individual meetings on art practice with an MFA Fine Arts student

Summer 2019

Adjunct Instructor, The New School, New York City.

Course: Film, Art Change: Making Movies to Make a Difference,

Pre-college video production intensive program, School of Media Studies

2016-2019

Adjunct Instructor, College of Staten Island, City University of New York.

Courses taught: Video 1 (Video Production), Video 2 (Video Post-Production).

2017

Adjunct Instructor, SUNY Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY.

Course taught: Digital Photography 1

2014

Teaching Assistant, Parsons The New School for Design, Fine Arts, New York City.

Course assisted: Experiments in Video: Autobiography and Narrative

AWARDS/RESIDENCIES

2022 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, New Hampshire

2021 BricLAB Video Art Residency, Brooklyn, NY

2017 NARS Foundation, Studio Residency, Brooklyn, NY

2015 Vermont Studio Center, residency with merit grant, Johnson, VT

2013-2014 The New School University Merit Award

2013 Asylum International Jewish Artist Retreat, organized by the Six Points Fellowship, Garrison, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 Dissolution, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art

2020 Found in Translation online exhibition, Trans Vegas Arts Festival

2019 Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall,

Brooklyn Museum (Collaborator of LJ Roberts on The Queer Houses of Brooklyn and the Three Towns of Boswyck, Breukelen and Midwout in the 41st Year of the Stonewall Era)

Plays on Camp, Assembly Room NYC

Other Wise, Gallery MC

2018 Tag: Proposals on Queer Play and the Ways Forward, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

Queer Voices, L.H. Horton Jr. Gallery at San Joaquin Delta College, California

Alternate Routes, Leslie Lohman Project Space

Cast of Characters (artist project by Liz Collins), The Bureau of General Services

Overflow, Special Special, New York

2017 Found: Queer Archaeology; Queer Abstraction, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, New York City

NARS Spring Exhibition, Sunset Park, Brooklyn

Punching Up, Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase College

2016 Ditto, Mindscape Universe, Berlin, Germany

A Garden Sown! Los Ojos, Brooklyn, NY

Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community, Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA

Bring Your Own Body: Transgender Between Archives and Aesthetics, Grunwald Gallery of Art, Bloomington, Indiana

Bring Your Own Body: Transgender Between Archives and Aesthetics, Haverford College, PA

Bring Your Own Body: Transgender Between Archives and Aesthetics, 41 Cooper Gallery, Cooper Union, NYC

House of Orange, Kilroy Metal Ceiling, Brooklyn, NY

Dog and Baby Show, Video Video!, Chicago, IL

2015 Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD

Bring Your Own Body: Transgender Between Archives and Aesthetics, Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College, Chicago, IL

Off Pink, Parsons MFA Thesis Exhibition, The Kitchen, NYC, curated by Tina Kukielski

New Work New York: MFA Biennial, St. Nick’s Alliance/ Arts @ Renaissance, Brooklyn

Mutlifarious Array Reading Series march 13, Pete’s Candy Store, Brooklyn

Hysterically Accurate: Comedic Critiques of History, 25 East Gallery, NYC

To Be Real: Queer Icons screening, MIX New York Queer Experimental Film Festival

2014 Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community, Leslie Lohman Museum, NYC

Lumpy Discourses, 25 East Gallery, Parsons, NYC

2013 Hobby Group, JoAnn's Fabrics, Allen Park, Michigan

Craftivism, Le Petit Versailles, NYC

2012 40 Under 40: Craft Futures, Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Collaboration with artist LJ Roberts), Washington, DC

Pop-Up Museum of Queer History, Leslie Lohman Museum, NYC

CREEPS III Collective Show, Ed. Varie Gallery, NYC

2011 LJ Roberts (collaborator), Grizzly Grizzly, Philadephlia, PA

Queer Me, The LGBT Center, NYC

The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History, Quorum Forum, Brooklyn

2010 Ripe, The Keyhole, Kansas City, Missouri

Ripe, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, Missouri

C.A.T.S. Callin’, Port D’Or, Brooklyn, NYC

LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS, PANELS, AND WORKSHOPS

2022

We Are The Babysitters Club reading/illustration presentation, presented by Chicago Review Press

2020

Found in Translation panel, Trans Vegas Arts Festival

2019

Hysterically Accurate: Artists Using Comedy to Critique History Lecture, Chalkboard, Bureau of General Services— Queer Division, LGBT Center

Other Wise panel discussion, Gallery MC

2018

ICP/Bard Graduate Symposium Guest Speaker, The Dinner: An Open Conversation

Leslie Lohman Queer Artist Fellowship, Artist Talk

2017

"What is Feminism Now? Art and Activism" Symposium at Fashion Institute of Technology (panelist)

Trans Oral History Project, New York Public Library (interviewee)

Radical Encounter (podcast guest)

Panel discussion on trans aesthetics and childhood, Knockdown Center, Queens (organizer and moderator)

“Queering Performance: Humor, Identity, Documentary, and Drag” Lecture at Purchase College, with Loren Britton

Now//Now//Now//Now: Rethinking Feminism, Soho20 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (panelist)

2016

Visiting Artist (lecture and critique), Sarah Lawrence College

Course visited: Advanced Painting & Drawing, Prof. John O’Connor.

Trans Aesthetics in the Marriage Equality Utopia: A Micro-Manifesto, Panelist, CLAGS After Marriage Conference, CUNY John Jay College.

2015

Transeuphoria Now! Panelist, 41 Cooper Gallery, Cooper Union, co-sponsor Visual AIDS

Artist talk for Bring Your Own Body: Transgender Between Archives and Aesthetics.

2014

Artist Talk with Todd Oldham, Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community, Leslie Lohman Museum.

2013

Workshop Facilitator, “Choose Your Own Adventure: Making Art out of Queer History,” Pop Up Museum of Queer History Block Party.

2012

Jewish Art Salon, Artist Panel Moderator, Columbia / Barnard Kraft Center.

2011

“Queer That Museum Chat, An Unofficial Docent Tour of Brooklyn Museum’s Hide/Seek Exhibition,” The Pop Up Museum of Queer History, Brooklyn Museum.

Selected PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (non-teaching related)

2020

Video captioning, Yale’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
2015

Content Producer, Visual AIDS (Video documenting, interviewing, speaking)

Public Relations Committee, Off Pink, Parsons Thesis Exhibition at The Kitchen

2014

Visiting Artist Lecture Series Committee, Parsons The New School for Design

2013

Research Assistant to Jeanine Oleson, Parsons The New School for Design

2012-2013

Program Assistant, JCC Conversations and Laurie M. Tisch Gallery, Jewish Community Center (JCC) Manhattan

Studio Assistant, Zoe Leonard Studio

SELECTED SCREENINGS, FESTIVALS, READINGS, AND PERFORMANCES

2022 BRICLab Video Art Residency Screening, BRIC House

2020 Tell, an evening of queer storytelling, The Bureau of General Services Queer Division, presented by Drae Campbell

Evening of online performance with Transformer project space, Washington DC

2019 We All Sleep Alone, performance as Stoni Butchell, Assembly Room NYC

2018 The Adventures of Stoni Butchell and Chartruisa, a double solo performance with Hannah Hiaasen, Dixon Place, New York

Drag performance as Klaus Nomi, Nightwood, Leslie Lohman Museum, New York

2017 Auto Robo Eco, reading of Pink and Blue, The Bureau (BGSQD), NYC

2016 A Garden Sown!, Screening of Clothes Feelings, Los Ojos, Brooklyn, NY

Experiments and Disorders, reading of T4T, Dixon Place, NYC

2015 To Be Real: Queer Icons screening of Religious Beliebs, MIX New York Queer Experimental Film Festival

Mutlifarious Array Reading Series, Pete’s Candy Store, Brooklyn

D.I.C.T.I.O.N.A.R.Y. Reading Series Closing Marathon, The Spectrum, Brooklyn

2014 Together Men Make Paradigms, a play by Maxe Crandall, Dixon Place, NYC

2013 New Museum IDEAS CITY Festival, LGBT Center street performance, NYC

Squirts: New Voices in Queer Performance, La Mama Experimental Theater Club, NYC

Frameline San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, San Francisco, CA

The Bureau’s First Birthday, The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, NYC

Pride by Papercut, The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, NYC

2012 MIX NYC: The 25th New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, NYC

2011 MIX NYC: The 24th New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, 45 Bleecker, NYC

Local and Emerging Film, Radical Queer Semaine, Montreal, QC, Canada

PUBLISHED WORK

“On Anne Frank’s Diary as a Social Text,” V.1 Magazine, Rhode Island School of Design, 2018.

Cover images, illustrations for "The Husbands" by Diana Cage for Fence Magazine, Summer 2017.

Catalog essay on painter Adam Novak for Fragmented Gaze, curated by Loren Britton. Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery, Los Angeles, July 2016.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Hyperallergic, June 12, 2019. “Queer Artists in Their Own Words: Buzz Slutzky Wants to Make Queer History Cool,” Zachary Small.

ArtNews (Online and Fall 2018 issue, page 112). Maximiliano Durón, September 20, 2018. “Mission Accomplished?: As Mainstream Art Museums Rush to Diversify, What is the Role of Culturally Specific Museums Working for a Cause?”

Art in America, May 1, 2018. Brian Droitcour, “Subcultural Treasures.”

Slate (online). Charles A. McDonald, November 27, 2017. “‘Whatever You Do Is Perfect’: Remembering the Queer Mentorship of Flawless Sabrina.”

The New York Times, August 23, 2017. Holland Cotter, "Art Once Shunned, Now Celebrated in 'Found: Queer Archaeology; Queer Abstraction'."

John Chaich and Todd Oldham, “Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community.” Ammo Books: New York, 2017.

Philadelphia Gay News, November 3, 2016. Ray Simon, "Local College Explores Trans History, Artistry."

VICE, The Creators Project, October 27, 2016. Antwaun Sargent, “A Look Inside the First Queer Show at Yale School of Art.”

Two Coats of Paint, October 21, 2016. Sharon Butler, "Examining Queer at Yale University. "

Barker & Jane, Cultural Studies: Theory & Practice, 5th edition, p. 106.

Observer, July 30, 2016. Alanna Martinez, "Martha Wilson to Debut Trump Impersonation, and 5 Other Things to Do."

The Boston Globe, May 5, 2016. "The Week Ahead: Art, Music, Theater, and More."

The Chicago Tribune, January 27, 2016. Lori Waxman, "She, He, They, Ze: Transgender art and artists at Columbia College."

Hyperallergic, Nov 11, 2015. Carolina Drake, “An Archival and Artistic Exploration of Transgender Identity.”

POZ Magazine Online, Nov 6, 2015. “Remembering Trans Artist and HIV Activist Chloe Dzubilo.”

Art in America, Oct 29, 2015. “The Lookout: ‘Bring Your Own Body.’”

Paper Magazine, Oct 19, 2015. Layne Weiss, “A Look at ‘Bring Your Own Body,’ A New Exhibit Exploring Trans Histories and Identities.”

New York Times, Feb 20, 2013. Holland Cotter, “Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community.”

Busy Beaver Button Co. Blog, Feb 11, 2013. Abby, “Buttons Celebrate Queer Culture and History.”

ArtNews Blog, January 30, 2013. Robin Cembalest,“Avant-Garde Quilt Explosion!”

Mr. X Stitch, January 8, 2013. Jamie Chalmers, “Showtime! Queer Threads—Leslie Lohman Museum, New York.”

Art F City, October 3, 2013. Paddy Johnson and Hannah Garner, “A Queer Education: a Pop-Up Museum comes to Brooklyn.”

The Huffington Post, February 7, 2013. John-Stuart Faquet, "What the Future Might Be: Dan Fishback’s SQUIRTS."

Artforum.com, January 30, 2013. Katie Anania, "Critics Pick: '40 Under 40: Craft Futures.'"

Next Magazine, Dec 28, 2012. Brian Sloan, “Under One Roof: Spotlight (Squirts).”

Time Out NY, Critics Pick: Squirts. Dec 19, 2012.

Creeps 3rd Annual Magazine, October 31, 2012.

Bodies of Work Magazine, Morty Diamond, February 24, 2012. “Interview With Artist Buzz Slutzky.”

Next Magazine, Brian Sloan, January 19, 2011, nextmagazine.com “SCENE + HEARD: A Queer History Museum “Pops Up” In Bushwick.”

The Pitch, Chris Packham, February 25, 2010, pitch.com. Mikal Shapiro's Ripe moves to Leedy-Voulkos.

The Pitch, Chris Packham, February 11, 2010, pitch.com. Ripe finds sketchy sex in the Keyhole.

FELLOWSHIPS

2018 Triple Canopy Publication Intensive

2017 Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, Artist Fellowship

2016 Creative Capital Summer Intensive, Professional Development Program

2009 Youth Organizing Fellowship, Young People For, People for the American Way

2008 Grace Paley Organizing Fellowship, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

2011 Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian American Art, Washington, DC

(Collaborator of LJ Roberts on The Queer Houses of Brooklyn and the Three Towns of Boswyck, Breukelen and Midwout in the 41st Year of the Stonewall Era)

TECHNICAL ABILITIES

Adobe Premiere, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe AfterEffects, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Bridge, Adobe Audition, SketchUp, HTML & CSS

Photography & Videography, green screen/chroma keying

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2021 Spring/Break Art Show, solo exhibition for Tyler Gunther, A Greedy Peasant’s Royal Wedding Workshop

2016 Queering Space, Green Gallery, Yale University

(co-curated with Loren Britton, Res, Erica Wessman, Shikeith Nieree, Christie Denizio, Erik Freer, Johnathan Robert Payne, and Asad Pervaiz)

2015 Hysterically Accurate: Comedic Critiques of History, 25 East Gallery, Parsons Fine Arts

The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History—Soho, Leslie Lohman Museum, New York

The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History, Quorum Forum, Brooklyn, New York