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Cole J. Graham

PhD Candidate, Cole Graham wearing a turquoise top and black rim glasses

Cole J. Graham

PhD Candidate
He/Him

graham.1342@buckeyemail.osu.edu

Cole J. Graham is a multiply-disabled trans man and PhD candidate in History of Art at the Ohio State University whose research takes place at the intersection of (trans)gender and dis/ability in 20th Century painting. Ultimately interrogating the ways in which modernistic tendencies toward purity and efficiency have limited possibilities for disabled mind-bodies, Cole has brought disability studies to bear on the work of Robert Rauschenberg, while his forthcoming dissertation will consider the work of Viennese artist Egon Schiele. He has also published on visual constructions of monstrosity in popular culture and, as curatorial intern at the Wexner Center for the Arts, worked on the A.K. Burns exhibition Of space we are...