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Juliana Huxtable is a musician, DJ, visual artist, and activist who moves fluidly through New York’s underground electronic music scene and the contemporary art world. As both a solo artist and a member of collectives like House of Ladosha and Shock Value, she crafts sonic landscapes that merge experimental electronic elements, industrial textures, and spoken word. Huxtable creates spaces where identity and resistance are continuously reframed through myth and narrative. Her performances are raw and meticulous, embodying the tension that defines her visual and literary work.
Huxtable’s impact extends far beyond the club. Her visual and performance art has been exhibited at the New Museum Triennial, MoMA PS1, and the Guggenheim, where she interrogates race, gender, and technology through self-portraiture, text-based works, and speculative narratives. Her 2017 solo exhibition, A Split During Laughter at the Rally, explored the aesthetics of conspiracy and cultural paranoia, while her writing—collected in _Mucus in My Pineal Gland_—continues to shape contemporary discourse on identity and power.
Huxtable is an outspoken activist, using her practice to challenge systems of oppression. A fierce advocate for transgender rights and racial justice, she has also been a consistent and forceful supporter of Palestinian liberation. Through her art, music, and social media presence, she calls for strategic boycotts, cultural solidarity, and a refusal to participate in structures that uphold systemic violence. For Huxtable, creation and resistance are inseparable—her work is not just a reflection of the world but a confrontation with it.
Juliana Huxtable / SCALING, 2022, acrylic on printed canvas, artist frame. Part of Akimbo Spittle (2022) at Project Native Informant, London.
