Lauren John Joseph author biography, plus links to books by Lauren John Joseph.

Lauren John Joseph

Lauren John Joseph (formerly La JohnJoseph) is a British born American-educated artist and writer, who works at the intersection of video, text, and live performance. She has written extensively on contemporary culture, art, performance, pornography, gender theory and the Golden Age of Hollywood, contributing in print and online to publications including iD, The Independent, Sleek, The Guardian, Time Out, Attitude, Amuse, Siegessäule, Parterre de Rois, Charleston Press, and the 'zines Birdsong, Fat Zine, 21st Century Queer Artists Identify Themselves, and Not Here: An Anthology of Queer Loneliness. She has also authored the experimental prose work Everything Must Go (ITNA Press in 2014), and the plays, A Generous Lover and Boy in a Dress, which were published by Oberon in 2019. She has presented performances at the Royal Opera House; Deutsche Oper; Bristol Old Vic; Barbican; Schaubühne; Art Basel Hong Kong; SF MoMA; Dixon Place, NY; Martin-Gropius Bau; Fancy Him, Tokyo; La Java, Paris; and Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói. Her fine artwork has been shown in group exhibitions in the UK, US, Germany and Mexico.

This biography was last updated on 02/17/2026.

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