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Cassils's art contemplates the history(s) of LGBTQI+ violence, representation, struggle and survival. For Cassils, performance is a form of social sculpture: Drawing from the idea that bodies are formed in relation to forces of power and social expectations, Cassils work investigates historical contexts to examine the present moment.

Cassils has had recent solo exhibitions at HOME Manchester, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Perth Institute for Contemporary Arts, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts,NYC; Institute for Contemporary Art, AU; Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts; School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Bemis Center, Omaha; MU Eindhoven, Netherlands.

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They are the recipient of a 2020 Fleck Residency from the Banff Center for the Arts, a Princeton Lewis Artist Fellowship finalist (2020), a Villa Bellagio Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (2019), a United States Artist Fellowship (2018), a Guggenheim Fellowship and a COLA Grant (2017) and a Creative Capital Award (2015). They have received the inaugural ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art, California CommunityFoundation Grant, MOTHA (Museum of Transgender Hirstory) award, and numerousVisual Artist Fellowships from the Canada Council of the Arts. Their work has been featured in New York Times, Boston Globe, Artforum, Hyperallergic, Wired, TheGuardian, TDR, Performance Research, Art Journal and was the subject of the monograph Cassils published by MU Eindhoven 92015) and their new catalogSolutions, is published by the Station Museum of Contemporary Art, TX (2020). Cassils's work was recently acquired by the Victoria Albert Museum, London, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto and the Leslie Lohman Museum.

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Cassils shows their work internationally.
Solo exhibitions include:

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Macedonia Museum of Fine Arts; Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha; Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts; School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston; MU Eindhoven, Netherlands; Trinity Square Video, Toronto

Cassils’ work has been featured in museums and galleries world-wide:

Deutsches Historisches Museum and the Schwules Museum, Berlin; Institute for Contemporary Art and The National Theatre, London; MUCA Roma, Mexico City; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City; ANTI Contemporary Performance Festival, Kuopio, Finland; Museo da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo, Brazil; Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica; and Deutsches Historishes Museum, Berlin, Germany

Cassils is the recipient of:

USA Artist Fellowship (2018), Guggenheim Fellowship (2017), Creative Capital Award (2015)

Cassils’ work has been featured in:

New York Times, Boston Globe, Artforum, Hyperallergic, Wired, The Guardian UK, TDR, Performance Research, Art Journal, Vogue Brazil

Cassils’ films have premiered at:

Sundance Film Festival (Utah), Out Fest (Los Angeles), The Institute for Contemporary Art (London)

Cassils received their bachelor’s degree from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and a Masters degree in visual arts and integrated media from the California Institute of the Arts. Cassils has adjudicated exhibition selections at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and currently is a lecturer in the Art Department at Stanford University. Cassils is the curator of Vital Signs, a performance series at Stanford University which aims to highlight and showcase underrepresented performance forms such as experimental performance art, durational art, and body art.

UPCOMING EVENTS AND TALKS
‍Artist Talks in Bremen, Germany: May 6 & 7, 2020
Artist Talk at Barbican, London: May 2020

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
‍Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, Becoming an Image (Summer 2020)
SMOQUA—Festival of Feminist and Queer Culture 2020, Rijeka, Croatia, PRESSED (May 21-23, 2020)
‍Banff Center for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Canada, Human Measure (July 16, 2020)

UPCOMING RESIDENCY
Cassils will be in Residence at the BANFF Centre for Arts and Creativity, as part of the Fleck Fellowship from March 9-25. Cassils is preparing for their forthcoming solo show at the Walter Phillips Gallery, and developing a new performance: Human Measure.

The Armory Show, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY (March 4- 8, 2020)

‍Fluidity, Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, at Syker Vorwerk, Berlin (Feb 23- May 17, 2020)

‍Wellcome Collection, Being Human, London, UK (Permanent Exhibition)

‍Barbican, Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography, London, UK, (Feb 20- May 17, 2020)

‍Gardiner Museum, RAW, Toronto, CA (March 5- June 7, 2020; Performance: Feb 20, 2020). Featuring new commission: Up To and Including Their Limits (live performance on February 20, 2020)

‍Tang Museum, Skidmore College, FLEX, Saratoga Springs, NY (Feb 22, 2020- June 7, 2020)

‍Craft Contemporary, The Body, The Object, The Other Los Angeles, CA (January 25, 2020 – May 10, 2020)
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Walter Phillips Gallery, Solo Show, BANFF Centre, Canada (Summer 2020)

‍Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Trans/American: Gender, Identity, Appearance Today, Chapel Hill, NC (Fall 2020)

‍Hessel Museum, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annondale-on-Hudson (May 2020)

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