Volcano, Del La Grace

Volcano is an intersex , at birth recorded as a girl and raised as a girl ^[2] . Until the age of 37, Volkano lived as a woman, after which he began to live as a non-binary person. After marrying Johnny Volcano, who identifies himself as a queer , Del La Grace took his current name to challenge the “binary status quo”. La La Grace and Johnny have two children, Mika Alexis and Niko Ilon ^[3] , who call La Grace "MaPa" ^[4] .

Prior to moving to San Francisco , at the age of nineteen ^[5] , Volcano attended Allan Hancock College from 1977 to 1979 ^[6] . In 1992, Volcano earned a master's degree in photography from the University of Derby, UK, after studying photography at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1979-81.

Selective Exhibitions

List of exhibitions Volcano ^{[7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]}

• CORPUS QUEER: bodies in resistance, Transpalette, Emmetrop, Bourges , France , September 2005
• INTERSEX 101: The Two Gender System as a Human Rights Abuse, nGbK Gallery, Berlin , Germany , June 2005
• BOOST IN THE SHELL, Aeroplastics Gallery (Group Exhibition) Brussels , Belgium , May 2005
• PAS DE REGRETS, France , November 2003
• FEMALE TURBULENCE, Aeroplastics Gallery, (Group Exhibition) Brussels , Belgium , October 2003
• VENUS BOYZ, Zita, Folkets Bio, Stockholm , Sweden , May 2002
• "FALLEN HEROES: Masculinity & Representation", Espai D'Art Contemporani de Castello, (Group Exhibition), Spain , April 2002
• FLUID FIRE, Format Gallery, Malmo , Sweden , 2002 (December 2001)
• "GERHKE'S ARTISTS", Hamburg Museum of Erotic Art, Hamburg , Germany , 2001
• "ONE MAN? SHOW ”, Babele Gallery, Milan , Italy , April 2001
• SEX MUTANT, The Nunnery, (Group Exhibition) London , Great Britain , August 2000
• “A KINGDOM COMES”, Gallery Point of View, London , UK , July 1999
• ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, Melkweg, (Group Exhibition) Amsterdam , The Netherlands , August 1998
• "DUKE: KING OF THE HILL", Courtauld Galleries, (Group exhibition) London , Great Britain , November 1999 - 2001
• RETEROSPECTIVE: Del LaGrace, Magazin 4, Bregenz , Austria , September 1996
• DESIRE, Nordic Arts Center, (Group Exhibition), Helsinki , Finland ; Kulturhuset, Stockholm , Sweden ; Humlebaek, Denmark ; 1995-97
• STREET STYLE, Victoria and Albert Museum , (Group Exhibition) London , United Kingdom , June 1994

Selected Publications

• Love Bites , Gay Men's Press, London, 1991. “Perhaps the first published photographic monograph on lesbian sexuality in the world, made from the perspective of an insider. In the early 90s, Love Bites generated a lot of controversy and was censored, including in LGBT media. In the United States, it was banned for two weeks. In Canada, the most “offensive” photographs were cut out of a book before it was sold. It was sold in England, but not in LGBT bookstores, because the LGBT community feared such content. Although the book has not been published for more than 10 years, it is considered a classic of queer art ” ^{[13] [14] [15]} .
• The Drag King Book , Serpent's Tail, 1999. Created in collaboration with ^[13] . The book is about in London, San Francisco, and New York . Volcano's book describes how, in San Francisco, in 1985, the band “ Our Our Backs / BurLEZK” staged a lesbian strip show at The Baybrick Inn Pub ^{[16] [17] [18]} .
• Sublime Mutations , Konkursbuchverlag, 2000. “Sublime mutations, a photographic retrospective of the work of Volcano Del La Grace, created over the past ten years, visually transform the political and theoretical cutting-edge avant-garde” ^[19] . In the introduction, Jay Prosser argues that thanks to Volcano's work, “we see how the shapes of our bodies and our communities are changing. However, it is important to note that we also see the changes promised by our observation, the mutations we read, as well as the changes that occur with our bodies. Volcano skillfully demonstrates that elevated mutations are already transformations that viewers project onto the physical world, and especially onto the body ” ^{[20] [21] [22]} .
• " Sex Works 1978-2005" , Konkursbuchverlag, 2005. Containing essays by Paul Presiado . The book shows the history of sex on the queer scene ^{[22] [23]} .
• He worked on the book Inter: Erfahrungen intergeschlechtlicher Menschen in der Welt der zwei Geschlechter , published by Alice Barth in 2013. Other notable co-authors of the book are Mauro Cabral , and Phoebe Hart. ^[24]
• Worked on Queer Theory , edited by and Annabelle Willox, published in 2004. The book contains fifteen articles on sexuality, gender studies, and other aspects of queer research ^[25] . Other notable co-authors of the book are Judith Butler , , Cheryl Chase , and .
• He worked on the 2009 Intersex and After issue of , edited by Ian Morland. Notable collaborators included: , Ian Morland, and ^{[26] [27]} .
• He worked on Femmes of Power: Exploding Queer Feminities , co-authored with Ulrika Dahl . Published by in 2008 ^{[28] [29]} .

Volcano took part in the groundbreaking film Gabriel Baur, The Venus Boys ^[30]