About
Milo Harvey is an interdisciplinary visual artist based in Los Angeles with concentrations in photography, sculpture, printmaking and video. Harvey’s work explores transgender and queer identity, sexual trauma, childhood trauma, transitioning and gender norms through a heavy focus in self portraiture.
Harvey is deeply interested in using their body and self as vessels to discuss topics of maleness, transness, gender satire, and yearning, ultimately striving to challenge status quos through personal anecdotes and lived experiences. Harvey feels that through illustrating individual, emotional struggles, they may both tap into the universal human condition and garner much needed empathy for the trans experience. They gravitate towards self portraiture as it allows them full, consentual freedom when creating intimate imagery.
Additionally, Harvey employs a heavy use of motifs in their work, which serve as extensions of self in both the facets of identity that Harvey craves and those they seek to escape from. Motifs such as the dog, the gun, the horse, the collar, and the phallus often appear in the context of deconstructing stereotypically masculine forms into something soft, malleable and conceptually formless. While they may not be exact depictions of Harvey, they are indeed actors in Harvey’s continuous investigation into their own self and identity.