Agnes Questionmark, a multimedia performance artist based in Brooklyn, creates work exploring the trans body—encompassing transgender, transhuman, and trans-species identity—often with an aquatic, tentacular aesthetic. During a studio visit at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, she showed recent fabric works overpainted with acrylic and silicone, depicting organs in vivid reds and oranges. Her performances include TRANSGENESIS (2021), a 23-day endurance piece at Harlesden Highstreet in London, and CHM13hTERT (2023), a 16-day installation in a Milan subway station where she was suspended in a mermaid-like tail. She also produced an artist's edition, QuestionGen (2024), containing a capsule of her own DNA, made with biohacker Josie Zayner and publisher Nero.
This profile matters because it introduces a rising trans artist whose work critically engages with biotechnology, body modification, and the medical-industrial complex, themes increasingly relevant in contemporary art and discourse. Questionmark's fusion of beauty and the uncanny, and her use of silicone and live performance, challenge conventional boundaries between human, animal, and machine. Published in ARTnews as part of its 2025 "New Talent" issue, the article signals the artist's growing visibility and the art world's interest in bioart and trans perspectives.