Ron Athey
@ron-athey.bsky.social
Performance artist, I also write, facilitate workshops and practice structural bodywork in Los Angeles
Exploding head lineage! Salvador Dali 1939, Leigh Bowery 1992, and my cephalophore by Hermes Pittakos 2018
November 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Exploding head lineage! Salvador Dali 1939, Leigh Bowery 1992, and my cephalophore by Hermes Pittakos 2018
Opening tomorrow: Phallus :: Fascinum :: Fascism at the Box Gallery in downtown LA, first screening of my 15 minute video Hierophant, til January 17 💘 happy to be in the massive group show and have a final edit of this work we shot in Athens, digital edition of 5 at the Box or Murmurs Gallery 💖💖💖
November 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Opening tomorrow: Phallus :: Fascinum :: Fascism at the Box Gallery in downtown LA, first screening of my 15 minute video Hierophant, til January 17 💘 happy to be in the massive group show and have a final edit of this work we shot in Athens, digital edition of 5 at the Box or Murmurs Gallery 💖💖💖
The long-awaited new edition of Bob Flanagan’s Fuck Journal, on Hanuman Books, thank you for this copy Johanna Hedva, who wrote the intro in this new edition 💘💘💘
November 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The long-awaited new edition of Bob Flanagan’s Fuck Journal, on Hanuman Books, thank you for this copy Johanna Hedva, who wrote the intro in this new edition 💘💘💘
This was a sweet lil book gift
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November 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This was a sweet lil book gift
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Thank you Dina Douglass for unearthing this photo, young and in love. 🥀🥀
"I took this photo of Rozz Williams and Ron Athey during the Christian Death in-store appearance at Vinyl Fetish in Hollywood. The date was April 10, 1982, to promote the release of Only Theatre of Pain."
"I took this photo of Rozz Williams and Ron Athey during the Christian Death in-store appearance at Vinyl Fetish in Hollywood. The date was April 10, 1982, to promote the release of Only Theatre of Pain."
November 14, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Thank you Dina Douglass for unearthing this photo, young and in love. 🥀🥀
"I took this photo of Rozz Williams and Ron Athey during the Christian Death in-store appearance at Vinyl Fetish in Hollywood. The date was April 10, 1982, to promote the release of Only Theatre of Pain."
"I took this photo of Rozz Williams and Ron Athey during the Christian Death in-store appearance at Vinyl Fetish in Hollywood. The date was April 10, 1982, to promote the release of Only Theatre of Pain."
if you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
if you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
Finishing development on Hierophant Working with Hermes Pittakos and booking euro and uk May/June tour! Contact me if you need details to get onboard!
October 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Finishing development on Hierophant Working with Hermes Pittakos and booking euro and uk May/June tour! Contact me if you need details to get onboard!
Florida road trip 1989, thank you Poncr De Leon!
October 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Florida road trip 1989, thank you Poncr De Leon!
I love sticking my face in these sets! Norwich Castle 2013 ish with @kiraoreilly.bsky.social and Julia Beardsley 🥳💞💞💞
October 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I love sticking my face in these sets! Norwich Castle 2013 ish with @kiraoreilly.bsky.social and Julia Beardsley 🥳💞💞💞
In 1998 at mix fest São Paulo with Jennifer Tilley! 🤩🎉
October 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
In 1998 at mix fest São Paulo with Jennifer Tilley! 🤩🎉
With the late great Rachel Rosenthal 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵
October 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
With the late great Rachel Rosenthal 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵
Coming 2026: Carmina Escobar and Ron Athey VOX CLAMANTIS
Portrait series from Chinati Foundation residency in Marfa TX by Amina Cruz
Portrait series from Chinati Foundation residency in Marfa TX by Amina Cruz
October 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Coming 2026: Carmina Escobar and Ron Athey VOX CLAMANTIS
Portrait series from Chinati Foundation residency in Marfa TX by Amina Cruz
Portrait series from Chinati Foundation residency in Marfa TX by Amina Cruz
Just home from Athens but missing my loves Daniel, Michele, Jeremy, Riven 🩷🩷🩷 and another 45! So hard to leave intense community 💘💘💘😢
October 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Just home from Athens but missing my loves Daniel, Michele, Jeremy, Riven 🩷🩷🩷 and another 45! So hard to leave intense community 💘💘💘😢
Winding me up and co-signing it
October 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Winding me up and co-signing it
Darkness Visible Athens is a wrap, not ready to return the the states 😓 40 participants 8 facilitators day trip to the Oracle at Delphi, all DIY self produced sliding scale fee, and now back to LA figuring out how to move somewhere I can work
October 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Darkness Visible Athens is a wrap, not ready to return the the states 😓 40 participants 8 facilitators day trip to the Oracle at Delphi, all DIY self produced sliding scale fee, and now back to LA figuring out how to move somewhere I can work
“Everyday the whole world breaks my heart” Little Annie before The Swans, Tuesday the Lodge Room 💘💘💘💘💘💘
September 23, 2025 at 4:47 AM
“Everyday the whole world breaks my heart” Little Annie before The Swans, Tuesday the Lodge Room 💘💘💘💘💘💘
Newest in my EgertonMS series, Divinity Icon: the Executioner
September 23, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Newest in my EgertonMS series, Divinity Icon: the Executioner
Tarik, middle peaking through front row. I knew his brother Eric, also died with their brothers Jair and Shawn. Ithe 70s were forever ago, but it always been awkward to reckon with the kool-aid jokes. And the charisma of Jim Jones. This is the root of my "trouble in paradise" paranoia of utopias.
September 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Tarik, middle peaking through front row. I knew his brother Eric, also died with their brothers Jair and Shawn. Ithe 70s were forever ago, but it always been awkward to reckon with the kool-aid jokes. And the charisma of Jim Jones. This is the root of my "trouble in paradise" paranoia of utopias.
Currently writing about: Tarik and I were the same age, friends through grade and middle school when he and his brothers left for Jonestown, Guyana. Their mum, who would give me favorable updates, was meant to join them. After the mass suicide/murder event, she negotiated their burial in Trinidad 1)
September 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Currently writing about: Tarik and I were the same age, friends through grade and middle school when he and his brothers left for Jonestown, Guyana. Their mum, who would give me favorable updates, was meant to join them. After the mass suicide/murder event, she negotiated their burial in Trinidad 1)
🚬 American Hotel 1983
September 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
🚬 American Hotel 1983
Early 90s with Vaginal Davis and Divinity Fudge 💘💘
September 13, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Early 90s with Vaginal Davis and Divinity Fudge 💘💘
The late great Dr. Velma Jaggers 1970s and Divinity in a replica dress I have made complete with the side-wound-ribbon of Christ, from Deliverance 1995 💛💛
September 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The late great Dr. Velma Jaggers 1970s and Divinity in a replica dress I have made complete with the side-wound-ribbon of Christ, from Deliverance 1995 💛💛
Tomás Aceves shot this t-shirt campaign for our Darkness Visible fundraiser, in a Victorian House I've been sitting in the West Adams district! Love my family! Pony, Reve, Stacy, Carl, Jeanelle, Eric, had a blast on a bank holiday Monday 💙
September 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Tomás Aceves shot this t-shirt campaign for our Darkness Visible fundraiser, in a Victorian House I've been sitting in the West Adams district! Love my family! Pony, Reve, Stacy, Carl, Jeanelle, Eric, had a blast on a bank holiday Monday 💙
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Greer Lankton's Hermaphrodite Doll Giving Birth! this is site is a treasure, especially for images like this that aren't on meta family friendly sites!
Greer Lankton's Hermaphrodite Doll Giving Birth! this is site is a treasure, especially for images like this that aren't on meta family friendly sites!
August 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
lankton.mattress.org/Detail/objec...
Greer Lankton's Hermaphrodite Doll Giving Birth! this is site is a treasure, especially for images like this that aren't on meta family friendly sites!
Greer Lankton's Hermaphrodite Doll Giving Birth! this is site is a treasure, especially for images like this that aren't on meta family friendly sites!