Feather Chiaverini explores how queer theory, horror, class, and pop culture shape our identities and how these tools can be used flexibly to shape the self. Inspired by the theater and everyday hustle of their family’s costume shop, they use costumes as material rather than adornment. They make sculptures out of trash and trash out of sculptures, all mingling in a teeming mass, creating immersive installations, soft sculptures, and digital environments that reimagine our horizons.

Feather is a fiber and performance artist from South Florida currently based in Philadelphia, PA. They received a BFA from the College of Creative Studies in Detroit, MI, and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. They have shown work nationally at Grizzly Grizzly, Blah Blah Gallery, James Oliver Gallery, Trout Museum of Art, N’namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Ice Box Project Space, and more. Feather is currently the Residency Director of the Queer Materials Lab, and adjunct at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture and teaches Queer Craft at the Oxbow School of Art.