KALUP LINZY (b. 1977, Stuckey, FL) lives and works in Brooklyn.
Kalup Linzy is a video and performance artist best known for a series of video art pieces satirizing the tone and narrative approach of television soap opera. Linzy performs most of the characters himself, many of them in drag, and also performs on stage using many of the same characters.
Linzy has exhibited his work at P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY; The Hayward Gallery, London; and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Linzy was recently named a Guggenheim Fellow for 2007-2008, and in 2005, received a grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. Exhibitions in 2008 include a retrospective of video works at the Moore Space, Miami, Laughing in a foreign language at the Hayward, London and participation in the Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art.
Linzy is represented by Taxter & Spengemann in New York.