Mia Shay Jose is a trans visual artist and researcher who uses graphic narratives to probe questions of gender, inheritance and embodiment, informed by her lived experiences of transition: of body, culture and profession. Her creative practice approaches social systems both through the lens of a transgender body and that of a legal researcher, searching for a reconciliation of conflicted parts essential to the self. Over the last 2 years, this search has led to Negotiations, a graphic travelogue charting the policing of non-binary bodies across public spaces, Regards Your Skin, an anthology around self-policing and motherhood, and a public mural with trans communities in Kerala. She regularly collaborates with journalistic, policy and research organisations to design visual narratives based on ground research, as well as with other creatives on interdisciplinary projects. She is currently working on projects across graphic novels, cultural research, public interactive art, as well as the curation of the first comprehensive exhibition on Indian visual narrative traditions.
CONTACT: linesbyjose@gmail.com.