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Cole J. Graham

Cole J. Graham

Cole J. Graham

PhD Student
He/Him

graham.1342@osu.edu

Cole J. Graham is a dog enthusiast, an autistic trans man, and a PhD student in History of Art at the Ohio State University, where he also completed his MA. Other study has taken him to Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and the City University of New York. His research takes place at the intersection of (trans)gender and dis/ability in 20th Century painting, interrogating the ways in which modernistic tendencies toward purity and efficiency have limited possibilities for disabled mind-bodies (and indeed all mind-bodies). Cole previously served as curatorial intern at the Wexner Center for the Arts, where he worked on the A.K. Burns exhibition Of space we are..., and has also published on visual constructions of monstrosity in popular culture.