Julie Tolentino is a performance installation maker whose work draws from a variety of visual, archival, and movement strategies. A contributor to the Smithsonian's Art AIDS Oral History Project, she will join a Visual AIDS panel at the Whitney Museum in July 2018 for the opening of the David Wornarovicz show. This Fall-Winter 2018-19, Visual AIDS DUET book project with Kia Labeija and Tolentino. She co-authored the group essay, "The Sum of All Questions" in GLQ Journal (Gay & Lesbian Quarterly) focused on the Clit Club (1990-2002).
Tolentino initiated the Clit Club, Dagger, Tattooed Love Child, Puta Scandalosa and other club, benefit, and performance events in NYC in the 90's including the NY Gay Games at Madison Square Garden, Madonna's Sex Book and Album debut at Industria Super Studios, and many others. In 2016, she restaged Ellen Cantor's 1993 Coming To Power with Pati Hertling. They published a catalog and co-curated a feminist performance program throughout the exhibition: Narcissister, Jen Rosenblit, Luciana Achugar, Fluct, Kia Labeija, Xandra Ibarra, Jim Fletcher and niv acosta.
