Houston (2026)

Hole (2025)

Blurry (2023)






AUBREY CALAWAY (b. 1997) is a documentarian and visual artist based in Portland, Maine.  His genre-blurring work often examines on how sex, reality, and the self are manufactured and performed in contemporary American culture. His practice moves between digital photography and photomontage, film, drawing, event-based installation, and puppetry.  

Calaway’s work has been presented at the Portland Museum of Art, SPACE, and Portland Stage, and he has collaborated with institutions like ICA Miami, MIT, and Black Mountain Institute. His photographs have appeared in Texas Observer, the Houston Chronicle, the The Portland Dirt, Weathered. He was included in Bluebasket Press’ 2026 survey of contemporary trans artists and was the 2023 Salt Artist-in-Residence at Monson Arts.  

His team at TransLash Media was honored with a GLAAD media award and Signal Media awards for its audio documentary work.

Raised in Houston, Calaway maintains close ties to southeast Texas, NYC, and Los Angeles. He studied sociology at Brown University, where he graduated with honors, Magna Cum Laude, and Phi Beta Kappa. He attended the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies at Maine College of Art & Design, where he later returned as a lecturer. Calaway is the founder and curator of the Violet Institute for contemporary trans culture.