Mixed Media

BINDER SERIES

Having recently purchased a chest binder and experiencing the gender and body euphoria when I first saw the line of my flat chest in the mirror, I started to think about how important binders were to transgender folks. They can be uncomfortable,... More

T4T MAILER

This series was going to be reiterated to include a variety of coupons that parodied tons of corporations and important resources that not only transgender but BIPOC, queer, and disabled folks need. The coupons are funny but also work to address an... More

I AM NOT YOUR TOKEN

Inspired by Adrian Piper’s My Calling Card, I created a series of tokens that could be used to disrupt tokenization of folks who exist on the margins. I was in the process of designing a reiteration of these after critically thinking about how we... More

THE BANK OF EMOTIONAL LABOUR

The idea of the bank of emotional labour came from desiring compensation. How can we compensate for labour we do not consent to? This was very much in progress before the pandemic. Now that there has been time to take space from it I don’t like... More

Work by

Cleopatria Peterson (they/them)

Printmaker, Zine-Maker, Storyteller & Illustrator

“Cleopatria Peterson is a non-binary black multidisciplinary artist that believes in the importance of storytelling, love and nature above all things. Their award winning thesis explored print as...” [More]

Artwork Collection

GradEx

The award winning cumulation of my final year at OCAD. Incomplete due to Covid-19 and no studio access.

BINDER SERIES

Having recently purchased a chest binder and experiencing the gender and body euphoria when I first saw the line of my flat chest in the mirror, I started to think about how important binders were to transgender folks. They can be uncomfortable,... More

T4T MAILER

This series was going to be reiterated to include a variety of coupons that parodied tons of corporations and important resources that not only transgender but BIPOC, queer, and disabled folks need. The coupons are funny but also work to address an... More

I AM NOT YOUR TOKEN

Inspired by Adrian Piper’s My Calling Card, I created a series of tokens that could be used to disrupt tokenization of folks who exist on the margins. I was in the process of designing a reiteration of these after critically thinking about how we... More

THE BANK OF EMOTIONAL LABOUR

The idea of the bank of emotional labour came from desiring compensation. How can we compensate for labour we do not consent to? This was very much in progress before the pandemic. Now that there has been time to take space from it I don’t like... More

Work by

Cleopatria Peterson (they/them)

“Cleopatria Peterson is a non-binary black multidisciplinary artist that believes in the importance of storytelling, love and nature above all things. Their award winning thesis explored print as...” [More]