Zackary Drucker

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Born in Syracuse, New York (1983), 39-year-old Zackary Drucker, an artist, cultural producer, and trans woman, challenges the way we perceive gender, sexuality, and perception.

Zackary Drucker
Born	1983 Syracuse, New York
🏫 Education	Masters in Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Art
💼 Occupation
🌐 Website	https://www.zackarydrucker.com https://www.instagram.com/zackarydrucker/

Biography

Drucker has performed and shown her work all over the world in galleries, museums, and film festivals, among them the 2014 Whitney Biennial, MoMA PS1, the Hammer Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the MCA San Diego, and the SF MoMA.

In an interview with The Creative Independet Drucker states, "I feel an acute sense of responsibility, of service, to the trans and gender non-conforming communities, and I think that all of us have to use our platforms to create more empathy and understanding in the world."

Early Life and Education

Zackary Drucker, born and raised in Syracuse, New York, earned her B.F.A from the School of Visual Arts in 2005. In 2006, she made her first television appearance on the show Jeffrey Deitch’s Artstar as a contestant. By 2007, she earned her M. F. A. from the California Institute of the Arts; after graduating, she decided to stay in Los Angeles. As a child, Drucker did not have many role models that are apparent in the LGBTQ+ community. However, her parents supported her gender nonconformity, so she was not alone in her journey.

Exhibitions and Accomplishments

Films

The Lady and the Dale "

The film, directed by Nick Cammilleri and Zackary Drucker, tells the tale of Elizabeth Carmichael, who came to attention during the 1970s gas crisis by releasing a fuel-efficient, three-wheeled automobile. As she wins over major automakers and investors, a web of intrigue surrounding the car's technology and Carmichael's unexpected history emerges. The series explores auto scams centered around a mysterious entrepreneur with a one-of-a-kind narrative of deception, family, and identity through the lens of an incredible entrepreneur's ascent and final demise.

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The Lady and the Dale

"This is Me"

This Is Me acts as an accessible introduction to the challenges that many transgender people encounter every day. In an effort to present the viewers with a more thorough and truthful portrait of the trans community, the show features a fresh group of trans people sharing their own personal stories in each episode.

"Transparent "

When the patriarch of the Pfefferman family makes a shocking revelation, the whole family's secrets begin to flow out, and each of them spins in a different way as they try to find out who they will become.

Photograph

Rosalyne Blumenstein and the Art of Living

In 2019, Zackary Drucker paid homage to the trans icon Rosalyne Blumenstein.

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Zackary Drucker, Rosalyne, 2019, for Aperture Courtesy the artist and Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles

Icons

Drucker's art challenges preconceived notions about transition, beauty, age, and mortality. Her self-portraits are part of a larger endeavor to document and document the trans community.

Relationship

Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst's Relationship exhibited lauched in 2014 at the Whitney Biennial. The JSMA show includes 26 images from the project, which documents Drucker and Ernst's intimate moments as an opposite-oriented transgender couple from 2008 to 2013, during which time Ernst transitioned from female to male and Drucker transitioned from male to female.

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