Jo Xacto (she/they) is a Black trans mixed media artist and musician. Their work focuses on Black queer and trans hip-hop, illicit eroticism, and subversion of Black cultural stereotypes. They explore these themes in their personal artistic practice, where they grapple with Black queer subjectivity and navigating gender dysphoria. Their collage practice is an attempt at reconciling competing versions of their ideal self, a process that often produces incoherent, messy and jarring visual representations. Through placing paper on a page, they pursue the possibility of personal peace.
