Chelsea Culprit (b. 1984, Paducah, Kentucky) lives and works in upstate New York and Mexico. She received a BFA in studio art and a BA in art history from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007. Her work explores the performance of gender in the labor market and the expression of gender in the natural world, reinventing subjects and techniques of historical painting. Grounded in painting but extending to neon, sculptural assemblage and installation, it depicts figures who express their sexuality and gender with raucous freedom in spaces such as the nightclub, the garden and the forest. Solo exhibitions include shows at Morán Morán in Los Angeles, Queer Thoughts in New York, Revolver Galería and Mariposa in Paris, and her work has been in group exhibitions at Museo Tamayo, the Palais de Tokyo and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. It is in the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art and the Pérez Art Museum Miami.
