merritt k, Wo Chan, manuel arturo abreu, Thel Seraphim, Cat Fitzpatrick. Internationally, abrue has worked with Dublin’s NCAD Gallery, Geneva’s Centre d’Art Contemporain, Madrid’s Yaby, and Sydney’s Critical Path. Trans women, transgender, and genderqueer writers face obstacles and barriers. Currently based in Portland, they work in text, ephemeral sculpture. Recent projects in the US include ones at Los Angeles’ AA|LA Gallery, SOIL and Veronica in Seattle, PSU’s AB Lobby Gallery and Open Signal Portland Community Media Center in Portland, as well as Harlem’s Studio Museum, MoMA, MoMA PS1, Rhizome and the New Museum in New York. manuel arturo abreu, born in Santo Domingo, is a poet and artist from the Bronx.

For the book launch abreu has curated other trans/nonbinary/ gender-nonconforming artists of color, all Seattle-based: Ebo Barton, Anisa Jackson, Reverend Dollars, and Yani Robinson. They compose club-feasible worship music as Tabor Dark and also co-facilitate home school, a free pop-up art school in Portland, currently in its fourth year of curriculum and in residency at the city’s Yale Union for 2019. abreu is the author of List of Consonants (Bottlecap Press, 2015) and transtrender (Quimrica Books, 2016), and their debut collection of critical writing is. Curated by manuel arturo abreu Launch of manuel arturo abreu’s second book, transtrender. abreu is the author of two books of poetry-“List of Consonants” and “transtrender”-and one book of critical art writing, “Incalculable Loss”. Receiving their BA in Linguistics from Reed College, 2014, they use what is at hand in a process of magical thinking with attention to ritual aspects of aesthetics.

Manuel arturo abreu is a Dominican poet/artist from the Bronx.

Transtrender by Manuel Arturo Abreu