Who Is She?
Tiffany St. Bunny is a tall, long-hair butch trans woman that was born and raised in rural Oklahoma, receiving her BA from Oklahoma State, before moving to Bloomington, Indiana to complete her MA. Using frameworks she developed in her Cultural Geography studies, she became an organizer within the Trans Justice movement, but more importantly, she became a photographer/documentarian of the queer/trans community that she inhabits. She currently lives and works in Oakland, CA where she creates work based on her experiences growing up poor, queer, and trans in the rural South/Southwest. Thematically, her body of work sabotages traditional symbols of patriarchy, masculinity, and manhood. Landscapes, ideas, and brands monopolized and weaponized by the straight, white, all-american man are wrenched from the security of their hegemonic grasp by hypergender(ed)(less) homos. The “Sacred Rural Masculine” is forcibly perverted, and the resultant decadent divinity is (re)claimed, paving a path towards a place of healing and beauty.
She is a resident artist at Eternal Return, and her current projects include Truckslutsmag, Western Springs, and Eternal/Endless. Creating a lasting visual archive of her radical queer and trans freak family is the foundational underpinning of her artistic practice.
Exhibitions
Residency Showcase for "Home of the Brave"
Home of the Brave, Cisco UT, October 31 - November 2 - 2009
Lesbian Lexicon #4 Release Show
Hit Gallery, San Francisco CA, July 27 - August 3 - 2019
Momentum (OVAC)
Renshaw Gallery, Tulsa OK, March 7 - March 21 - 2006
Momentum (OVAC)
30 Hudson, Oklahoma City OK, July 17 - July 31 - 2005
Collections
Evie in Twentynine Palms, The Birth of the New Year, Photo 2 - Private Collection
Evie in Twentynine Palms, The Birth of the New Year, Photo 3 - Private Collection
Big Buck Hunter - Private Collection
Residencies
"Home of the Brave"
Cisco, UT - October 2019
Awards
Viewers Choice Award / Momentum - 2005
SPACE Prize / best minicomic - 2014
Publications
Limp Wrist - Paper Rocket Press - 2013 (w/ Penina Gal)
Features
El Pato Feo Zine, Vol. 1 - Baghead - 2019
Press
"In a Former Ghost Town, a Queer Artist Flourishes" - Author: Deanna Bianco, for Hyperallergic - November 2019
"The Rural Queers Reclaiming Redneck Culture" - Author: Jhoni Jackson, for PAPER - December 2019
"TruckSlutsMag Is Making Trucks Gay and Reclaiming Rural Queer Culture" - Author: Lauren Parker, for Autostraddle - Janurary 2020