Persimmon Blackbridge
Individual
Roles
Artist, Curator, Writer, AuthorBiography
For the past 45 years, Persimmon Blackbridge has worked as a sculptor, writer, curator and performer, as well as being an editor, cleaning lady, and very bad waitress. She has consistently made art on themes of disability since the late 1970s, as well as art, writing, and performance on institutionalization, censorship, queer identity, generational alcoholism, feminism, and war. Winner of the VIVA award for visual arts in 1991, a 1995 Lambda Award in Washington DC, the 1997 Ferro Grumley Fiction Prize in New York City, the 1998 Van City Book Award, and an Emily Carr Distinguished Alumni Award in 2000, Blackbridge’s work been shown across Canada and the US, as well as in Europe, Australia, and Hong Kong.Bodies in Translation, 2020
Collection
grunt gallery Programming Archive (Artist)Related programs
Mirificus (Artist)Borderline Disorderly (Artist)
Related people & organizations
Kiss & Tell (Group)Related Archive, Library & Publication Objects
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