Ridykeulous is a curatorial initiative founded by artists Nicole Eisenman and A.L. Steiner."Readykeulous by Ridykeulous: This is What Liberation Feels Like™"
CAM, Retrieved 13 September 2014 The project encourages exhibitions of queer and feminist art.

History

Founded in 2005, Ridykeulous mounts exhibitions and events primarily concerned with

queer ''Queer'' is an umbrella term for people who are not heterosexual or cisgender. Originally meaning or , ''queer'' came to be used pejoratively against those with same-sex desires or relationships in the late 19th century. Beginning in the lat ...

and feminist art, using humor to critique the art world as well as culture at large. Collaborators include A.K. Burns, Aaron Johnson, Anna Sew Hoy,

Celeste Dupuy-Spencer Celeste Dupuy-Spencer (born 1979) is an American painter. Biography Dupuy-Spencer was born in New York City in 1979. She received a BFA degree from Bard College in 2007. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Career Dupuy-Spencer beg ...

, Cody Critcheloe/ SSION, Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff, Dana Schutz, Dawn Frasch, Dawn Kasper, Dawn Mellor, Dean Daderko, Eve Fowler, Math Bass, Robinson Fastwurms, Leidy Churchman, Ulrike Muller,

Zackary Drucker Zackary Drucker (born 1983) is an American trans woman multimedia artist, cultural producer, LGBT activist, actress, and television producer. She is an Emmy-nominated producer for the docu-series ''This Is Me'', a consultant on the TV series ''T ...

, Suzanne Wright, Kathe Burkhart, Christian Lemerz,

K8 Hardy K8 Hardy (born 1977, Fort Worth, Texas) is an American artist and filmmaker.(2018, March 26). Hardy, K8. ''Benezit Dictionary of Artists.'' Retrieved 14 Dec. 2020, from https://www-oxfordartonline-com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/benezit/view/10.1093/ ...

Lara Schnitger Lara Schnitger (born 1969 in Haarlem, Netherlands) is a Dutch-American sculptor and painter, living and working in Los Angeles and Amsterdam. Schnitger studied at the Royal Academy of Art (The Hague) from 1987 to 1991 and spent a year on a resi ...

, Ashley Reid, Lindsay Brant, Lisa Sanditz, Daphne FItzpatrick, Lisi Raskin,

Catherine Lord Catherine Lord (born 1949) is an American artist, writer, curator, social activist, professor, scholar exploring themes of feminism, cultural politics and colonialism. In 2010, she was awarded the Harvard Arts Medal. Early life and education Bor ...

, Keith Boadwee, Ellen Lesperance &

Jeanine Oleson Jeanine Oleson (born 1974) is an American interdisciplinary artist working with images, materials and language that she forms into complex and humorous objects, performance, film, video, sound, and installation. Oleson's work explores themes incl ...

Carrie Moyer Carrie Moyer is an American painter and writer living in Brooklyn, New York. Moyer's paintings and public art projects have been exhibited both in the US and Europe since the early 1990s. Life and work Carrie Moyer is a painter and writer who ha ...

, Adam Rolston, Nicola Tyson, Melissa Logan/

Chicks on Speed Chicks on Speed is a feminist music and fine art ensemble, formed in Munich in 1997, after members Australian Alex Murray-Leslie and American Melissa Logan met at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. Though Chicks on Speed reached cult status th ...

, Daniel Bozhkov,

Rachel Harrison Rachel Harrison (born 1966) is an American visual artist known for her sculpture, photography, and drawing. Her work often combines handmade forms with found objects or photographs, bringing art history, politics, and popular culture, pop cultur ...

Amy Sillman Amy Sillman (born 1955) is a New York-based artist, known for process-based paintings that move between abstraction and figuration, and engage nontraditional media including animation, zines and installation.Farago, Jason''The New York Times'', ...

, L.M. Childs, Claude Wampler, Miranda Lichtenstein,

Kathy Acker Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947 isputed– November 30, 1997) was an American experimental novelist, playwright, essayist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that dealt with themes such as childhood trau ...

, Abe Ajay, Mike Albo, Artists Poster Committee (Frazier Dougherty, Jon Hendricks, Irving Petlin), Kathe Burkhart,

Nao Bustamante Nao Bustamante (born September 3, 1969) is a Chicana interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator from the San Joaquin Valley in California. Her artistic practice encompasses performance art, sculpture, installation, and video and explores issu ...

Jibz Cameron Jibz Cameron is a performance, recording and video artist as well as an actor. Cameron also produces work as Dynasty Handbag, an alter ego created in 2001. Her performance art has been called "Outrageously smart, grotesque and innovative" by ''The ...

, Leidy Churchman, Dennis Cooper, Tracey Emin, Daniel Feinberg,

Louise Fishman Louise Fishman (January 14, 1939 – July 26, 2021) was an American abstract painter from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For many years she lived and worked in New York City, where she died. Biography Louise Fishman was born in Philadelphia on Jan ...

, Glen Fogel,

Hollis Frampton Hollis William Frampton, Jr. (March 11, 1936 – March 30, 1984) was an American avant-garde filmmaker, photographer, writer, theoretician, and pioneer of digital art. He was best known for his innovative and non-linear structural films that defin ...

, Simon Fujiwara, Gary Gissler, Guerilla Art Action Group (G.A.A.G.),

Harmony Hammond Harmony Hammond (born February 8, 1944 in Hometown, Illinois) is an American artist, activist, curator, and writer. She was a prominent figure in the founding of the feminist art movement in 1970's New York. Early life and education Harmony Ha ...

, Kathleen Hanna and Toby Vail, I.U.D., Donald Judd,

Zoe Leonard Zoe Leonard (born 1961) is an American artist who works primarily with photography and sculpture. She has exhibited widely since the late 1980s and her work has been included in a number of seminal exhibitions including Documenta IX and Documenta ...

Ali Liebegott Ali Liebegott is an American writer, actor, and comedian. She is best known for her work as a novelist and a writer/producer on the Amazon original series ''Transparent''. Liebegott has taught creative writing at University of California, San Die ...

, Lucy Lippard,

Bernadette Mayer Bernadette Mayer (May 12, 1945 – November 22, 2022) was an American poet, writer, and visual artist associated with both the Language poets and the New York School. Early life and education Bernadette Mayer was born in a predominantly Ge ...

Allyson Mitchell Allyson Mitchell is a Toronto-based maximalist artist, working predominantly in sculpture, installation and film. Her practice melds feminism and pop culture to trouble contemporary representations of women, sexuality and the body largely through t ...

Deirdre Logue Deirdre Logue (born 1964) is a Canadian video artist and arts administrator, based in Toronto, Ontario. Career Deirdre Logue studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (BFA) and Kent State University (MFA). She has been creating film an ...

Eileen Myles Eileen Myles (born December 9, 1949) is a LAMBDA Literary Award-winning American poet and writer who has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, libretti, plays, and performance pieces over the last three decades. No ...

, Chuck Nanney, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Laura Parnes,

Adrian Piper Adrian Margaret Smith Piper (born September 20, 1948) is an American conceptual artist and Kantian philosopher. Her work addresses how and why those involved in more than one discipline may experience professional ostracism, otherness, racial ...

William Powhida William Powhida (born 1976) is an American visual artist and former art critic. Powhida's work is critical and addresses the contemporary art world. Education Powhida received his Master of Fine Arts in painting from Hunter College in January, 20 ...

Ad Reinhardt Adolph Dietrich Friedrich Reinhardt (December 24, 1913 – August 30, 1967) was an abstract painter active in New York for more than three decades. He was a member of the American Abstract Artists (AAA) and part of the movement centere ...

Carolee Schneemann Carolee Schneemann (October 12, 1939 – March 6, 2019) was an American visual experimental artist, known for her multi-media works on the body, narrative, sexuality and gender. She received a B.A. in poetry and philosophy from Bard College and ...

, Nancy Spero, Kara Walker, and

David Wojnarowicz David Michael Wojnarowicz ( (September 14, 1954 – July 22, 1992) was an American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, songwriter/recording artist, and AIDS activist prominent in the East Village art scene. He incorp ...

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