Be Oakley


Founder GenderFail
they/them
b.1991
ridgewood,ny


2019 Studio Museum of Harlem: Radical Reading Room 2018 MoMA PS1: Past and Future Fictions 2020 Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery: An Alarming Specificity 2021 VAE RALEIGH: QUEERS, READ THIS! 2021 Printed Matter: Towards A Self Sustaining Publishing Model A conversation with Marc Fischer, Vivian Sming, Yuri Ogita, and Devin Troy Strother, moderated by Be Oakley 2021 Estonian Museum of Contemporary Art: Of Redundancy and Refusal 2022 It's Nice That: “Design can be a powerful tool for the creation of radical content”: Genderfail builds typefaces from hand-drawn protest posters 2022 Sprengel Museum Hannover: The Shelf – Artistic Publishing Platform 2024-25 Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, An Incessant Unknowability: An Archive of Protest Inspired Typography and It’s Open Source Use 2025, Design Dysphoria, GIVE THEM THE FANTASY 2025, Secret Riso Club, Genderfail 10 Years of Failing Forward 2025, Union Hall Denver, RUINS: PERFORMING QUEER HISTORY 2024-25 Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Scientia Sexualis 2022 Women's Studio Workshop: Upstate Art Book Fair: Featured Publisher’s Exhibition Seize Control of the FDA 2021 Center For Book Arts: Imperfect Archiving/Archiving as Practice 2021 The Baffler: GenderFail no. 56 March 2021 Say Their Name 2021 Kim? Contemporary Art Centre: Excess and Refusal 2021 MUDAC - Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts: Subversif.ve.s, graphisme, genre & pouvoir 2020 Cleveland Institute of Art, Reinberger Gallery: TITLE TBD 2018 International Center for Photography Library: Queering the Collection

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