Whiskey Chow is a London-based artist, activist and Chinese drag king. Chow’s practice engages with political issues and related topics: from queer(ing) masculinity, problematizing the nation-state across geographic boundaries, interrogating stereotypical projections of Chinese/Asian identity, to enabling empowerment by queer-reading ancient Chinese myth. Her work is interdisciplinary: performance, moving image, sculpture, digital art, and experimental printmaking.

As artist-curator, Chow launched, curated and performed in ‘Queering Now 酷兒鬧’ 2020, a curatorial programme amplifying and championing queer Chinese/Asian diaspora voices in the West.

Trained at the Royal College of Art, Chow has been teaching there since 2019.

Chow performed/ showcased works across the UK and internationally, including Yorkshire Sculpture Park, The Art House (Wakefield), V&A, Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Leslie-Lohman Museum (New York) and National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul).

(Image courtesy of the artist. Photography: Yiqing Chen)