“Hard Times”, 2009, performance still by Clover Leary

I am an artist, stunt person and a body builder who uses my exaggerated physique to undermine and interrogate systems of power and control. Often employing many of the same strategies used by FLUXUS and guerrilla theater, my method is multidisciplinary and crosses a spectrum of performance, film, drawing, video, photography and event planning. I am a founding member of the Los Angeles based performance group the Toxic Titties.

My work work responds to the industrial production of images. To inhabit Los Angeles is to live on a film set – indeed, to inhabit any city whose culture is defined by mass culture of consumption is to find oneself defined by the images one consumes.

I have exhibited at the White Chapel and Thomas Danes gallery in London, Manifesta, Schnitt Ausstellungsraum, Edith Ruß Site for Media Art in Germany, LGBT film festival in Paris, France, at the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwigin Vienna, Austria, at MUCA Roma and International Festival, Ex-Teresa Arte Actual in Mexico City, at Art in General in NYC, most recently at the Yurba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and at LACE and at the USC Center for Feminist Research in Los Angeles as well as at Art Basel Miami Beach in Florida.