The white evangelical family Zac Thompson was born into didn’t make room for queer non-binary artists, let alone gender-fuck drag performers. Since they’re both of those things, the myopic traditionalist world their parents made for them growing up felt too small. To make room, they’ve had to build their own queer worlds by using their work to playfully expand the limiting normative structures around home, family, and gender that they grew up with, through a combination of drawing, photography, zine-making, and performance.
Zac Thompson is an artist and performer, known as Zacrilegious. Born in Colorado Springs, CO, but raised in Orlando, FL they received their BFA in Drawing from the University of Florida and their MFA from the School of Visual Arts. Their work has been featured in Hyperallergic as well as exhibited in group shows at the Craig Krull Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, the SVA Chelsea Gallery in New York, NY, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, PA and they have been a resident at the Visual Arts of Chautauqua Institution. They currently live and work in Brooklyn, NY.