Del lagrace volcano biography definition

Del LaGrace Volcano (born Debra Dianne Wood in California in 1957) is "one of instigators of polymorphous perverse queer culture."^[1] A formally trained photographer, Del's work includes installation, performance and film and interrogates the performance of gender on several levels, especially the performance of masculinity and femininity.

Life and work

Born a female, Del lived the first 37 years of his life as a woman, but since then has been attempting to live as both male and female (transgender).^[1] Del earned an MA in Photographic Studies at University of Derby, UK in 1992 after studying photography at the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco from 1979-81.

Prior to Studying at San Francisco, Del attended Allan Hancock College as a student in the Visual Studies program from 1977-79.

Volcano's work complicates understandings of both femininity and masculinity by depicting lesbian masculinity.

In "The Feminine Principle" Volcano takes queer fe