Erasure through Representation in Boys Don’t Cry

Transgender artist, writer, and educator. In his visual practice, he works in abstraction to address the politics of representation. He developed this strategy to examine the expectation that transgendered people be readily available for visual scrutiny. Most recently, the 2016 essay, “Seeing Commitments: Jonah Groeneboer’s Ethics of Discernment” was in included in the opacity section of David Getsy and Che Gosset’s “A Syllabus on Transgender and Nonbinary Methods for Art and Art History,” Art Journal (2022). As a writer, Groeneboer has participated on panels and in symposiums at the Whitney Museum of American Art in conjunction with Zoe Leonard’s Survey and at the Beeler Gallery for Arms Ache Avid Aeon: Fierce Pussy Amplified and is a contributing critic for .