A.K. Burns (born 1975, in Capitola, California) is a New York-based interdisciplinary visual artist, working with video, installation, sculpture, collage, poetry and collaboration whose works address trans-feminist issues. Burns is currently a fellow at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She graduated from Rhode Island School of Design and went on to receive an MFA in sculpture from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. Burns has been full-time faculty at Hunter College's Graduate Department of Art and Art History from 2015-2016 and a mentor at Columbia University. She has also taught at Parsons the New School for Design, Cooper Union and Virginia Commonwealth University. Burns was a 2015 Creative Capital Awardee in the Visual Arts category and is represented by Calicoon Fine Arts, Galerie Michel Rein and Video Data Bank. Selected works Touch Parade (2011) Touch Parade is a five-channel video installation about online fetish culture. In the videos, Burns interprets a series of videos from YouTube that contain sexually inexplicit, yet fetishized actions. A Smeary Spot (2015) A Smeary Spot is the first in a cycle of multimedia installations, that uses science fiction and queer politics as a foundation to explore five interrelated elements: land, water, the body, power and the void. Completed and first exhibited in 2015 at Participant Inc., the 4-channel video was shot in the deserts of southern Utah and in a black box theater. Leave No Trace (2016) Leave No Trace is an experimental audio work and poem that uses ambient environmental recordings, vocalization, and sounds generated from various materials, including an electric guitar. It is part of a cycle of related works that includes A Smeary Spot and Living Room. Living Room (2017 - ) Living Room is a two-channel installation that debuted at the New Museum in an exhibition titled Shabby but Thriving, which also included many sculptural works by Burns. It was filmed at 231 Bowery, the building that is set for the Museum's expansion. Using the location's interior environment as well as several constructed sets inside the building, "the video treats the entire building as both a stage and a metaphorical body". Collaborations Community Action Center (2010) From 2007 to 2010, A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner composed Community Action Center. It is a feature-length work that they refer to as a ‘socio-sexual’ video, which utilizes erotics to express the personal sexual and political lives of