Pilar Gallego’s cross-disciplinary art practice is the point at which cultural codes and gender myths intersect and collide. They look into the body and its construction to unearth unconsidered potential and possibilities. How is one made a body, a subject? By what forces? How can we work within, through, and past existing systems of confinements to find a portal into liberation? Gallego’s art practice departs from their mutant subjectivity, which is a product of their transnational and transgender identities. This embodiment leads to investigations into location, assimilation, gender, and our complicated desire for the Other. Gallego looks to the closet/wardrobe as a repository for potential selves, considering the ways in which design marks and speaks for the body. Their research continues to grow and expand into ideas where queer implications arise — op art, sculpture & installation, the object/subject in space, live movement & performance, and interactivity. Pilar Gallego has completed residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and Yaddo. They received their BFA from the Pratt Institute and is a graduate of the MFA Art Program at the California Institute of the Arts.