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Nayland Blake was born on 1960 in New York, New York, is an American visual artist. Discover Nayland Blake's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 64 years old?

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Occupation Artist and Educator
Age 64 years old
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Born 1960
Birthday 1960
Birthplace New York, New York
Nationality United States

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Nayland Blake is an American artist whose Focus... is on interracial attraction, same-sex love, and intolerance of the prejudice toward them.

Their mixed-media work has been variously described as disturbing, provocative, elusive, tormented, sinister, hysterical, brutal, and tender.

1978

Nayland Blake attended Bard College in Annandale-On-Hudson, for its B.F.A. program from 1978 to 1982 and then moved to California.

1982

They attended the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, for its M.F.A. program, from 1982 to 1984.

1985

Nayland Blake began displaying their work in 1985.

1991

Blake has had solo museum exhibition at the Tang Museum and was included in the 1991 Whitney Biennial and that museum's infamous Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art exhibition in 1994.

1998

Among their most famous pieces are a log cabin made of gingerbread squares fitted to a steel frame, entitled Feeder 2 (1998).

When it went on display at the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, visitors furtively nibbled off bits and pieces of the cabin's interior walls, while the smell of the gingerbread filled the gallery.

Gorge (1998) is a video of the artist sitting shirtless being hand-fed an enormous amount of food for an hour by a shirtless black man from behind.

2000

Another well-known work is Starting Over (2000), a video of the artist dancing with taps on their shoes in a bunny suit made to weigh the same as his partner at the time.

The suit was so heavy that Blake could hardly move as they took choreographic directions from offstage.

2008

Maura Riley curated a retrospective of 30 years of Blake's art, "Behavior," which was presented in late 2008–early 2009 at Location One in New York City.

2009

In 2009, a live version of Gorge was staged in which audience members fed Blake.

Their work often incorporates themes of masochism.

Gorge follows two other major threads of Blake's work: their biracial heritage—the artist's father was black—and their pansexuality.

2017

Since at least 2017, Blake has opted to use “they/them” pronouns, a decision that they explained was made partly in solidarity with those whose gender expression does not fit a binary, as well as a nod to their own hybrid racial and sexual identity.

In October 2017 Nayland Blake participated in the performance series Crossing Object (inside Gnomen) hosted by the New Museum in Manhattan (2017–18).

Nayland Blake dressed as Gnomen, a bear-bison creature Blake created as their "fursona".

The New Museum described that Gnomen "can change sex and gender" while the furry suit represents Blake's hybrid identity.

2018

In 2018 Nayland curated Tag: Proposals on Queer Play And The Ways Forward at Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.

Their work is in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Des Moines Art Center, among others.

They are represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery, and currently lives and works in New York City.

In 2022, Blake participated in the 2022 Whitney Biennial titled "Quiet as It's Kept" curated by Adrienne Edwards and David Breslin.