Ruby Que is an interdisciplinary artist focusing on site-specific intervention and expanded cinema performance. In their work they open portals and create hauntings. Many projects grapple with absence; with video, sculpture and installation, they attempt to give shape to what lies within and beyond the perceived void. Drawing from their lived experience as a queer, itinerant immigrant, they meditate on yearning and find home in transit. They believe in the power of collective myth-making, often engaging collaborators and viewers as co-conspirators towards liberation. 

They have exhibited and performed at Roman Susan, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Elastic Arts, Comfort Station (Chicago, IL), Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (Ithaca, NY), Coco Hunday (Tampa, FL), SOLOS (Karlsruhe, Germany) and elsewhere. They have been awarded residencies at Vermont Studio Center, ACRE, Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, and Chicago Artists Coalition. Their work has been featured in The Chicago Reader, Performance Review Journal, and Sixty Inches from Center. Newcity Magazine named them a 2023 Breakout Artist. Que holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Cornell University and an MFA in Film, Video and New Media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where they currently teach.

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