Figures caught in moments of transformation and transmutation, hoping to understand and process the dissonance and harmony of the feminine, femme, and hysteric define Caleb Yono's work. In their recent series, “The Inter-Dimensional Femmes,” Yono features a high-femme protagonist(s) navigating and maintaining a multidimensional universe where their feminine desires and aspirations are vividly sublimated, activating a domain that is felt deeply at various registers: calm, complex, luxurious, dark, direct, and, in any case, heightened.
Yono holds an MFA from the Chicago Institute of Art and lives and works in Chicago. Their work has been exhibited in galleries and institutions including BEERS London, James Fuentes New York, Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, the Chicago Cultural Center, Andrew Rafacz in Chicago and Monya Rowe in New York. Yono has also worked extensively with s+s project in Mexico City and has performed and exhibited at the Centro Cultural del México Contemporáneo. They were the 2016 ACRE Residency performance scholar.