PAGE PERSON
Page Person (born 1972, Atlanta, Georgia) is an artist, educator, performer, and
storyteller. After coming out as trans, she experienced alienation from the art world spaces where she had exhibited for a decades.
In 2017, Person began performing in drag under the name “Page Person,” parti-
cipating in Los Angeles drag nights and events. Her ongoing project revolves around the deceptively simple statement, “I AM A PERSON.” As she explains in her artist’s statement, this assertion of her humanity is central to her work, where she frequently emphasizes the name “PERSON” in all caps as a bold compositional element in both her paintings and costumes.
When Person returned to making works on canvas in 2020, she discovered that creating paintings and designing gowns felt interchangeable. As she continues to work across various mediums, the boundaries between genres have increasingly blurred. Person’s practice embodies her mission to bring drag into art spaces and art into drag spaces.
Person has exhibited nationally and internationally for 30 years, including exhibi-
tions at Peres Projects in Berlin, Human Resources in Los Angeles, and Jeffrey Deitch in New York. She was recently featured in “Acts of Living,” the 2023 Made in LA: Acts of Living at the Hammer Museum. Her works are held in numerous collections globally, including MoMA in New York, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and MOCA in Los Angeles. Person lives and works in Los Angeles.
