As a self-taught visual artist, Jacob Clayton uses photography, video, and mixed media as means to expand the vocabulary that challenges Euro-hetero-white-centric expectations and cultural representations of gender identity and expression. His work often chronicles a therapeutic journey through recovery from complex trauma and the road to gather and assemble reclaimed pieces of a life lived for decades as a gay transgender man in America.
His work has been shown at the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival in San Francisco, CA, the Northampton Center for the Arts in Northampton, MA, Monmouth University Center for the Arts in West Long Branch, NJ, The Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA, and the United Arts Council in Raleigh, NC.
