Tobaron Waxman is a visual artist who sings. Tobaron composes performances for photograph, video and site specific installation, and is also a trained vocalist in Jewish liturgical music. As a curator, Tobaron’s curatorial projects have included ‘Watch me Work:Women, Labour and Queer Economies” at BBK Köln, Germany; ‘Object Body: Unexpectedly Ecstatic’ at Studio Maya, Brooklyn: ‘Radical Drag/Transformative Performance’ in collaboration with Stefan St-Laurent at GalerieSAWGallery, Ottawa; and the internationally touring video program ‘Topographixx: Trans in the Landscape’. In 2013, Tobaron founded The Intergenerational LGBT Artist Residency, as a combined curatorial, relational/live art, and sociopolitical praxis. Since 2017 Tobaron has developed the Trans Collections at Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, as part of a collaborative team at the largest independent LGBTQ archive in the world. Tobaron has been exhibited at such venues as Palais de Tokio, Videotage Hong Kong, Kunsthalle Vienna, FestivAlt Krakow, Montréal Arts Interculturels, CEPA Buffalo, New Museum NYC, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New Museum NYC and Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music. As a vocalist, Tobaron has sung liturgy in hospitals, at memorials and weddings; as well as performed at Kampnagel Festival of Choreography and Protest Hamburg, Kulturlabor ICI Berlin, Donau Festival, and Dixon Place NYC. Tobaron is currently developing a volume of artist interviews with international trans women artists, and more site-specific endurance performances for a cappella transsexual voice. In addition, Tobaron is a Research Collaborator of the Canadian Consortium for Performance and Politics in the Americas. Tobaron has taught live art, collaboration and vocal techniques at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, School of the Art Institute Chicago and at the Hollins MFA Dance Program, and has lectured at Parsons, SOAS University of London, Concordia University, OCADU, SMFA Boston, UC Irvine, Goldsmiths, NYU Tisch, SAIC, Bilgi Istanbul and others. Tobaron is a grateful recipient of grants from Franklin Furnace for Performance Art; Canada, Ontario and Toronto Arts Councils; and Ontario Ministry of Education and Training Technology Grant for Students with Disabilities. Tobaron has been artist in residence at Atlantic Centre for the Arts, Smack Mellon, Canada Council International Artist Residency at La Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, Marble House Vermont, and Toronto People with AIDS Foundation. Tobaron was Van Leir Fellow at Harvestworks NYC, artist fellow at Kulturlabor ICI Berlin, Fellow at the Akademie der Künst der Welt/Köln (2014 – 15), Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art Award for Unrecognized Artist of the Year/Hermit (2013). In 2010 Tobaron was honoured with the first ever Audience Award of the Jewish Museum of New York for the 8-hour endurance performance Opshernish. Tobaron’s writing and photography have been published internationally, including in Carte Blanche (Magenta, 2006), Post Porn Politics (bbooks, 2010), Fast Feminism (Autonomedia, 2010), Trans Bodies Trans Selves (Oxford University Press, 2014) and featured in such publications as Missy, C Magazine, Fuse, Canadian Dimension, Canadian Theatre Review, Lillith, Women & Performance, GLQ, TSQ, and LTTR.

Tobaron Waxman is a curator and visual artist who sings. Tobaron composes performances for photograph, video and site specific installation, and is also a trained vocalist in Jewish liturgical music. Since 2013, Tobaron founded and directs The Intergenerational LGBT Artist Residency, as a combined curatorial, relational/live art, and sociopolitical praxis. Since fall of 2017 Tobaron has been Trans Collections Assistant at Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA), the largest independent LGBT archive in the world. In this newly created role, Tobaron helps to build the Trans Archive by conducting outreach with members of trans communities, collecting trans materials, and preparing records for permanent storage at CLGA. As a curator of visual art and performance, Tobaron’s curatorial projects have included 'Watch me Work:Women, Labour and Queer Economies" at BBK Köln, Germany; 'Object Body: Unexpectedly Ecstatic' at Studio Maya, Brooklyn: 'Radical Drag/Transformative Performance' in collaboration with Stefan St-Laurent at GalerieSAWGallery, Ottawa; and the internationally touring video program 'Topographixx: Trans in the Landscape'. Tobaron's installations, photography and videos have been exhibited at such venues as Palais de Tokio, Videotage Hong Kong, Kunsthalle Vienna, CEPA Buffalo, New Museum NYC, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New Museum NYC and Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music. As a vocalist, Tobaron has sung liturgy in hospitals, at memorials and weddings; as well as performed at Kampnagel Festival of Choreography and Protest Hamburg, Kulturlabor ICI Berlin, Donau Festival, and Dixon Place NYC. Tobaron has taught live art, collaboration and vocal techniques at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, School of the Art Institute Chicago and at the Hollins MFA Dance Program, and has lectured at Parsons, SOAS University of London, Concordia University, OCADU, SMFA Boston, UC Irvine, Goldsmiths and others. Tobaron is a grateful recipient of grants from Franklin Furnace for Performance Art; Canada, Ontario and Toronto Arts Councils; and Ontario Ministry of Education and Training Technology Grant for Students with Disabilities. Tobaron has been artist in residence at Atlantic Centre for the Arts, Smack Mellon, Canada Council International Artist Residency at La Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, Marble House Vermont, and Toronto People with AIDS Foundation. Tobaron was Van Leir Fellow at Harvestworks NYC, artist fellow at Kulturlabor ICI Berlin, Fellow at the Akademie der Künst der Welt/Köln (2014 - 15). In 2010 Tobaron was honoured with the first ever Audience Award of the Jewish Museum of New York for the 8-hour endurance performance Opshernish. Tobaron’s writing and photography have been published internationally, including in Entangled Memories Remembering the Holocaust in a Global Age (Winter, 2017), Carte Blanche (Magenta, 2006), Post Porn Politics (bbooks, 2010), Fast Feminism (Autonomedia, 2010), Trans Bodies Trans Selves (Oxford University Press, 2014) and featured in such publications as Missy, C Magazine, Fuse, Canadian Dimension, Canadian Theatre Review, Lillith, Women & Performance, GLQ, TSQ, and LTTR.

Tobaron Waxman’s work has been exhibited at such venues as Palais de Tokio, Videotage Hong Kong, Kunsthalle Vienna, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, COCCA Seattle, Madison MoCA, CEPA Buffalo, and Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music. Waxman has taught his live art, collaboration and vocal techniques at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Hollins MFA Dance Extended Study Program. He has lectured at Parsons, SOAS University of London, Concordia University, SMFA Boston, UC Irvine and others. His texts and photography have been published in various volumes including Carte Blanche (Magenta, 2006), The Ambiguous I: Photography, Gender, Self (UC Irvine, 2008), Post Porn Politics (bbooks, 2010), Shimmering: Towards a Trans-Erotic Film Aesthetic (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, 2011); and in such publications as Fuse, Canadian Dimension, Times UK, GLQ and LTTR. He has been the recipient of several awards, including: The Harvestworks/Van Lier Fellowship, Franklin Furnace Performance Art Award, Canada Council, Toronto Arts Council, Henry Moore Foundation for Sculpture, ACO Residency Hong Kong, Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency, and Kulturlabor ICI Berlin Research Fellowship. The project produced at ICI Berlin, Mechitza 7.1 was acclaimed one of the five best art experiences of 2010 (Globe and Mail, Canada). In 2010 Waxman was honored with the first ever Audience Award of the Jewish Museum of New York for his installation Opshernish.