Figure · cross-linked record

Kevin Aviance

Performer

Performer2 rooms · 17 connected figures

Biography

No biography on record yet. This figure appears in the atlas through their venue connections below. A sourced biography is pending, contributions welcome via Submit a memory.

Rooms they shaped

Palladium

1985–1997 · Union Square, Manhattan

TransformedClub

Performer, Central performance figure at Arena; credited in oral accounts as 'queen mother and originator of performance art for the dance floor' in that era.

Luxx

2001–2003 · Williamsburg, Brooklyn

ClosedClub

Performer, Ballroom-era drag and dance performer who appeared at Luxx; cited in the queerhappenedhere.substack account of the venue.

Connected figures

People who appear in the same rooms, follow the thread.

Andy Warhol1 shared

Designer

Arata Isozaki1 shared

Designer

Eben Luxx1 shared

Designer

Ian Schrager1 shared

Co-owner of Studio 54 and the Palladium; later hotelier

Jean-Michel Basquiat1 shared

Designer

Junior Vasquez1 shared

Resident DJ associated with Sound Factory

Keith Haring1 shared

Artist embedded in downtown nightlife; Palladium commission

Kenny Scharf1 shared

Designer

Larry Tee1 shared

DJ and promoter behind the Berliniamsburg / electroclash party

Luis Martinez1 shared

Resident DJ

Patrick Anastasi1 shared

Resident DJ

Peter Gatien1 shared

Owner

Richard Sweret1 shared

Resident DJ

Sophia Lamar1 shared

Host

Spencer Product1 shared

Promoter

Steve Rubell1 shared

Co-owner of Studio 54 and the Palladium

Tobell Von Cartier1 shared

Performer