Seth Bogart

Bogart grew up in Tucson, Arizona, where his father was a lawyer and his mother was a nurse. In high school, he started playing the guitar{{cite journal|url=https://vmagazine.com/article/city-of-angels-seth-bogart/|title=City of Angels: Seth Bogart|date=March 10, 2016|first=Patrik|last=Sandberg|journal=V|access-date=July 5, 2019|archive-date=July 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170719190757/http://vmagazine.com/article/city-of-angels-seth-bogart/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/all-the-sweet-stuff/Content?oid=2163221|title=All the Sweet Stuff|first=Dan|last=Strachota|date=July 4, 2007|website=SF Weekly|access-date=July 5, 2019|archive-date=October 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025173332/https://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/all-the-sweet-stuff/Content?oid=2163221|url-status=dead}} and created the punk zine Puberty Strike. He later produced the zine Psycho No. 1 Fan.{{cite web|url=https://www.wnyc.org/story/sideshow-your-angst-ridden-youth-library-zines/|title=Your Angst-Ridden Youth is Now in a Library|website=WNYC|date=November 4, 2015|first=Khrista|last=Rypl}}{{cite web|url=http://archive.qzap.org/index.php/Detail/Entity/Show/entity_id/184|website=Queer Zine Archive Project|title=Individual: Seth Bogart}}{{cite web|url=http://www.qzap.org/v5/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1338|title=Psycho No. 1 Fan|first=Seth|last=Bogart|website=Queer Zine Archive Project|access-date=July 5, 2019|archive-date=May 20, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140520224123/http://www.qzap.org/v5/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1338|url-status=dead}}

When Bogart was 18, his father committed suicide.{{cite web|url=https://www.out.com/2012/02/20/seth-bogart-hunx-and-punx-music|website=Out|title=The indie punk's alter ego, Hunx, takes a somber turn|first=Adam|last=Rathe|date=February 21, 2012}}{{cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/BcN5Bh-B1Kv/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/s/instagram/BcN5Bh-B1Kv |archive-date=December 26, 2021 |url-access=registration|website=Instagram|author=@sethbogartofficial|date=December 2, 2017|title=20 years ago I️ found my father's suicide note locked inside his desk, in an unusually dark and quiet house}}{{cbignore}} He moved to Oakland, California shortly thereafter. At 19, he studied cosmetology at Laney College,{{cite news|newspaper=New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/t-magazine/seth-bogart.html|title=The Artist and Musician Conjuring a World of Queer Fantasy|first=Jenn|last=Pelly|date=October 22, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.laweekly.com/seth-bogart-of-hunx-and-his-punx-on-being-a-gay-punk-and-jay-reatard-giving-him-a-foot-massage/|website=LA Weekly|title=Seth Bogart of Hunx and His Punx on Being a Gay Punk and Jay Reatard Giving Him a Foot Massage|first=Kai|last=Flanders|date=March 15, 2012}} and later, in 2006, he co-founded the salon and vintage clothing store Down at Lulu's on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland.{{cite web|url=https://www.stereogum.com/638302/quit-your-day-job-hunx-and-his-punx/franchises/quit-your-day-job/|title= Quit Your Day Job: Hunx And His Punx|first=Brandon|last=Stosuy|date=February 14, 2011|website=Stereogum}}{{cite news|url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/Seth-Bogart-of-Hunx-and-His-Punx-2388192.php|title=Seth Bogart of Hunx and His Punx|first=Aidin|last=Vaziri|date=March 25, 2011|website=San Francisco Chronicle}}

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As a teenager in the mid-1990s, Bogart created the record label Heroes for Today, which put out albums by indie bands and distributed zines.{{cite web | url=http://bender.perso.libertysurf.fr/labels.html | title=100% Fret Free Records }}{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/roctober-18/page/24/|title=Roctober #18|year=1997}} In the late 1990s, Bogart created the record label Super Eight Underground, which put out albums both by and featuring indie bands such as The Causey Way, Deep Lust, The Mooney Suzuki, The Rondelles, Scared of Chaka, and Skinned Teen. He closed the label in 2000.{{cite web |url=http://www.thesuper8.com/ |title=Thank You |website=www.thesuper8.com |access-date=25 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001204182500/http://www.thesuper8.com/ |archive-date=4 December 2000 |url-status=dead}}

Bogart joined Oakland-based electroclash band Gravy Train!!!! as a backup dancer under the name Hunx shortly after its inception in the early 2000s. He soon began writing songs for the band and performing as the band's singer and guitarist.

In 2008, he founded Hunx and His Punx,{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2011/09/01/a_bubblegum_twist_hunx_and_his_punx/|title=A Bubblegum Twist: Hunx and His Punx|first=Kristina|last=Gray|date=August 31, 2011|newspaper=The Washington Post}} a garage punk band,{{cite web | url = {{AllMusic|artist|hunx-his-punx-mn0002491720|pure_url=yes}} | title = Hunx & His Punx| work = AllMusic | publisher = All Media Network | first =Jason| last = Lymangrover}} which changed its lineup in 2010 and was renamed to Hunx and His Punkettes. After this lineup disbanded in 2011, Bogart sold Down at Lulu's.{{cite web|url=https://www.ebar.com/arts_&_culture/music/261812|title=Second coming of Hunx and His Punx|first=Elle|last=Carroll|date=June 27, 2018|website=Bay Area Reporter}}

In 2012, Bogart released a solo album as Hunx titled Hairdresser Blues, and, in 2015, Bogart came out with an eponymous solo album under his own name.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/07/t-magazine/entertainment/hunx-seth-bogart-debut-album.html|first=Kevin|last=McGarry|newspaper=New York Times|date=March 7, 2016|title=A Queer Pop-Punk Cult Hero Strikes Out on His Own}} 2020 saw the release of his "Boys Who Don't Wanna Be Boys"{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/night-life/seth-bogart-men-on-the-verge-of-nothing|first=Jay|last=Ruttenberg|title=Night Life|magazine=The New Yorker}} and a remix version of the same album.

Bogart relocated to Los Angeles in 2013, and, in 2014, he started streetwear label Wacky Wacko.{{cite web|url=http://officemagazine.net/feelin-fruity-seth-bogart|first=Cassidy|last=George|title=Feelin' Fruity with Seth Bogart|date=May 8, 2018|website=Office Magazine}} Initially, it was to be a record label, until he lost interest in that idea. The line grew in popularity, and could be seen on Miley Cyrus, Tavi Gevinson, and Kathleen Hanna.{{cite web|url=https://www.thecut.com/2014/08/slimanes-latest-muse-loves-miley-tampon-tees.html|date=August 18, 2014|title=Saint Laurent's Latest Collaborator Loves Miley, Designs Tampon Tees|first=Véronique|last=Hyland|website=The Cut|publisher=New York magazine}} From 2014 to 2017, the label had a store on Sunset Boulevard in Echo Park.{{cite news|title=Seth Bogart is poised to make a splash with his new album and Wacky Wacko pop-up store|date=March 11, 2016|first=August|last=Brown|url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-ca-ms-seth-bogart-wacky-wacko-20160313-story.html|newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}{{cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/sAwVADxrcx/|title=OPENING TOMORROW|date=August 22, 2014|website=Instagram|author=@wackywacko}}{{cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/BVX6_wGlZqi/|title=BIG NEWS: Wacky Wacko's LA SHOP is closing on June 26 2017 (new location might happen later this year – if anyone has any dream spots get in touch )|date=June 15, 2017|author=@wackywacko|website=Instagram}} During this time, his work was imitated by fast fashion retailer Zara.{{cite web|url=https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2016/10/128088/wacky-wacko-pop-up-shop-zara-fast-fashion-knockoffs|website=Refinery29|title=Two Artists Opened a Pop-Up Shop Filled with Fast-Fashion Rip-Offs|first=Ana|last=Colon|date=October 31, 2016}}

Bogart has also collaborated with fashion house Saint Laurent.{{cite web|url=https://www.wmagazine.com/story/hunx-seth-bogart-saint-laurent|website=W|title=Hunx Goes High-End|first=Sue|last=Williamson|date=August 28, 2014}} Director Hedi Slimane was a fan of Bogart's work, and used his drawings in a Saint Laurent fabric pattern entitled "Hunx notebook," and a song by Hunx and His Punx in a promotional video.{{cite web|url=https://www.ysl.com/us/saint-laurent/shop-product/unisex/mss14campaign_section|title=Spring/Summer 2014|website=Saint Laurent|access-date=July 5, 2019|archive-date=July 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190705192227/https://www.ysl.com/us/saint-laurent/shop-product/unisex/mss14campaign_section|url-status=dead}}

In 2011, Bogart and collaborator Brande Bytheway launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a TV show.{{cite web|url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hollywoodnails/hollywood-nails-tv-show-make-your-dreams-come-true|website=Kickstarter|title=Hollywood Nails TV Show – Make Your Dreams Come True!}}{{cite journal|url=https://fuckyeahsethbogart.tumblr.com/image/24107839858|journal=Hardly Art Magazine|volume=3|date=2012|title=King Tuff vs. Hunx|page=10}} Hollywood Nailz launched as a web series in November 2012,{{cite web|url=http://www.papermag.com/check-out-seth-bogart-and-brande-bytheways-hollywood-nailz-paper-premi-1426664920.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116004813/http://www.papermag.com/check-out-seth-bogart-and-brande-bytheways-hollywood-nailz-paper-premi-1426664920.html|archive-date=January 16, 2021|title=Check Out Seth Bogart and Brande Bytheway's Hollywood Nailz (Paper Premiere)|date=November 14, 2012|website=Paper}} and was likened to a "bizarro '80s Public Access-style variety show".{{cite web|url=http://www.papermag.com/seth-bogart-forgotten-fantazy-1539801278.html|title=Premiere: Listen to Seth Bogart's New Track, "Forgotten Fantazy"|first=Abby|last=Schreiber|date=January 5, 2016|website=Paper}}

In May 2018, World of Wonder launched the web series Feelin' Fruity, a variety show which starred Bogart, and was inspired by Disneyland's Toontown and Pee-wee's Playhouse. It featured such guests as Alice Bag, Kate Berlant, Tammie Brown, John Early, Cole Escola, Manila Luzon, and Allison Wolfe.{{cite web|url=https://www.vulture.com/2018/07/seth-bogart-feelin-fruity-brings-a-punk-aesthetic-to-tv.html| date=July 20, 2018|title=Seth Bogart's Feelin' Fruity Is Bringing a Punk Aesthetic to TV|first=Angella|last=d'Avignon|website=Vulture|publisher=New York magazine}}{{cite web|url=https://worldofwonder.vhx.tv/feelin-fruity|title=Feelin' Fruity|website=WOW Presents Plus|publisher=World of Wonder}}{{cite tweet |user=WorldOfWonder |number=993642935471124481 |date=May 7, 2018 |title=Are you Feeling Fruity?!? Coming to WOW Presents Plus tomorrow is our new show with @SethBogartOK featuring guest stars like @thetammiebrown, @bejohnce, @kateberlant, @manilaluzon, @ColeEscola & a bunch of others! Watch the trailer on @them! }}

Bogart has also worked on music videos for other musicians. He directed Tegan and Sara's "U-Turn" (2016){{cite magazine | url=https://ew.com/article/2016/05/04/tegan-sara-uturn/ | title=Watch Tegan & Sara's new 'U-Turn' music video | magazine=Entertainment Weekly }} and was the set designer for Trixie Mattel's "Yellow Cloud" (2019).{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwaHeZwfGB0 | title=Trixie Mattel - Yellow Cloud (Official Music Video) | website=YouTube | date=May 17, 2019 }}

Bogart began taking classes at ArtCenter College of Design in 2013,{{cite web|title=The Leader of Hunx and His Punx, Seth Bogart, Has a Wacky New Art Show|url=http://www.laweekly.com/music/the-leader-of-hunx-and-his-punx-has-a-wacky-new-art-show-5981696|date=September 2, 2015|website=LA Weekly|first=Liz|last=Ohanesian}} and began selling ceramic versions of familiar objects—including perfume bottles and grooming supplies—at the Wacky Wacko store shortly thereafter.{{cite web|url=https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/seth-bogart|title=Seth Bogart's sleazy ceramic homages to salon life|first=Billie|last=Muraben|date=February 2, 2015|website=It's Nice That}}

In 2014, Los Angeles art gallery 365 Mission included a painting by Bogart in a group show, and, in 2015, 365 Mission gave him a solo show, in which he transformed the gallery space into The Seth Bogart Show, an immersive experience that displayed sculpture, paintings, ceramics, and video, as well as served as a performance venue.{{cite journal|url=https://nylon.com/articles/seth-bogart|journal=Nylon|title=Seth Bogart Makes Pop Where Life Imitates Art|first=Dana|last=Guth|date=February 22, 2016}}

Nino Mier gave Bogart a show in their Los Angeles gallery in 2018. Entitled Lick, it transformed the space into a sex shop, and included paintings and ceramic pieces by Bogart.

In 2019, Chicago's Soccer Club Club gallery hosted 100 Toothbrushes, a solo exhibit of 100 ceramic toothbrushes by Bogart.

In 2020 and 2021, he crafted ceramic sculptures of books with significance in the LGBTQ+ community.{{cite web|title=Artist Seth Bogart's Smutty Punk Reading List|first=Coco|last=Romack|date=October 29, 2020|website=Interview magazine|url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/artist-seth-bogart-smutty-punk-reading-list}}{{cite web|title=Counterculture books modelled in clay – in pictures|first=Alice|last=Fisher|date=7 Nov 2020|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/nov/07/counterculture-books-modelled-in-clay-seth-bogart-in-pictures|website=The Guardian}} These works were exhibited at New York City's Fierman Gallery and Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, and received international press.

Bogart is openly gay.{{Cite web|url=https://www.out.com/entertainment/music/2010/06/16/need-know-seth-bogart|title=Need to Know: Seth Bogart|date=2010-06-16|website=www.out.com|language=en|access-date=2019-07-06|last=Gopalan|first=Nisha}} He came out to his friends while in high school, and to his mother when he was age 18. In the early 2010s, Bogart dated fellow musician Daniel Pitout of Nü Sensae,{{cite web | url=https://beat.com.au/hunx-hairdresser-blues/ | title=Hunx : Hairdresser Blues | date=April 3, 2012 }}{{cite web | url=https://soundcloud.com/interviewshow/the-interview-show-with-nu-sensae-2011-22 | title=The Interview Show with Nu Sensae #77 }} the suspected true identity of country star Orville Peck.

• Too Young to Be in Love (2011)
• Street Punk (2013)

• Gay Singles (2010)

• Hairdresser Blues (2012)

• I Vant to Suck (2012)

• Seth Bogart (2016)
• Men on the Verge of Nothing (2020)

• "Eating Makeup" (2015) featuring Kathleen Hanna
• "Club with Me" (2016)
• "Boys Who Don't Wanna Be Boys" (2020)
• "Boys Who Don't Wanna Be Boys – The Remixes" (2020)

• "Pink Christmas" (2014){{cite web|url=https://www.thefader.com/2014/12/10/slink-pink-christmas|title=SSION, Hunx and His Punx, and Samantha Urbani Wish You a 'Pink Christmas'|first=Ruth|last=Saxelby|date=December 10, 2014|website=Fader}}

• {{cite book|title=Puberty Strike|publisher=Heroes for Today}} (c. 1996–98){{cite web|url=https://digitalcollections.saic.edu/islandora/object/islandora%3A30568|title=Puberty strike|website=SAIC Digital Collections}}{{cite web|url=https://libex.smith.edu/omeka/items/show/497|title="Puberty Strike," January 1997|website=Smith College Libraries}}{{cite web|url=https://deardiaryzinefest.tumblr.com/post/182388468220/selling-this-collectors-item-from-1998-to-raise|title=selling this collectors item from 1998 to raise money for the fest|website=DEAR DIARY|date=January 28, 2019}}
• {{cite book|title=Psycho No. 1 Fan}} (undated; after Puberty Strike)
• {{cite book|title=Wacky Wacko Magazine|publisher=Youth in Decline|volume=1|date=2015|oclc=950976487}}
• {{cite book|title=Wacky Wacko Magazine|publisher=Youth in Decline|volume=2|date=2016}}

• {{cite book|title=Seth Bogart: Ceramics 2014–2016|date=2017|publisher=Brain Dead Books}}
• {{cite book|title=100 Toothbrushes|date=2019|publisher=Drag City}}

• 2015 – The Seth Bogart Show, 356 Mission, Los Angeles{{cite web|url=http://356mission.com/item/the-seth-bogart-show/|title=The Seth Bogart Show – September 3 – October 2, 2015|website=356 Mission}}
• 2018 – LICK, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles
• 2019 – 100 Toothbrushes, Soccer Club Club, Chicago{{cite web|url=http://soccerclubclub.com/|archive-date=May 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190522224612/http://soccerclubclub.com/|title=Soccer Club Club}}
• 2021 – Library Fantasy Volume 1, Fierman Gallery, New York City{{cite web|url=https://fierman.nyc/seth-home|title=Seth Bogart|website=Fierman Gallery}}
• 2023 – Mondo Blondo Ceramica Sculptura, Fierman Gallery, New York City

• 2010 – Total Trash, A440 Gallery, San Francisco{{cite video|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2pj1pCywZU|website=YouTube|title=Total Trash @ A440 Gallery, San Francisco:August September 2010|date=Aug 24, 2010}}
• 2014 – Another Cats Show, 356 Mission, Los Angeles{{cite web|url=http://356mission.com/item/another-cats-show/|title=Another Cats Show – August 16 – September 14, 2014|website=356 Mission}}
• 2014 – You're My Playground Love, KK Gallery, Los Angeles{{cite web|archive-date=January 27, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150127033213/http://www.kklosangeles.com/gallery/kk-outlet-exhibitions/youre-my-playground-love|url=http://www.kklosangeles.com/gallery/kk-outlet-exhibitions/youre-my-playground-love|title=You're My Playground Love|website=KK Gallery}}
• 2014 – Perfume Mania Installation, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
• 2016 – Volatile! A Poetry and Scent Exhibition, Poetry Foundation, Chicago{{cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/exhibitions/74560/volatile-a-poetry-and-scent-exhibition|title=Volatile! A Poetry and Scent Exhibition|website=Poetry Foundation|date=April 14, 2022}}
• 2016 – THINGS: A Queer Legacy of Graphic Art & Play, ONE Archives, Los Angeles{{cite web|url=https://one.usc.edu/exhibition/things-queer-legacy-graphic-art-and-play|title=THINGS: A Queer Legacy of Graphic Art & Play – September 17, 2016 to December 11, 2016|website=ONE Archives at the USC Libraries}}
• 2016 – THINGS: A Queer Legacy of Graphic Art & Play, Participant Inc., New York City{{cite web|url=http://participantinc.org/seasons/season-14/things|title=Curt McDowell, Tom Rubnitz, Robert Ford, Seth Bogart, Rafa Esparza, Aimee Goguen, Brontez Purnell – THINGS – Curated by Bradford Nordeen – Jul 17–Aug 21, 2016|website=PARTICIPANT INC}}
• 2017 – Last, Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles
• 2018 – Tom House, Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit{{cite web|url=https://mocadetroit.org/tom-house/|title=Mike Kelley's Mobile Homestead – Tom House: The Life and Work of Tom of Finland|website=Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit}}
• 2019 – Circus of Books, Fierman Gallery, New York City{{cite web|url=https://fierman.nyc/circus-of-books|title=Circus of Books|website=Fierman Gallery}}
• 2020 – Heaven and Hell, Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles{{cite web|url=https://www.tomoffinland.org/events/heaven-and-hell/|title=Heaven and Hell|website=Tom of Finland Foundation}}
• 2020 – Circus of Books: Blowout, Fierman Gallery, New York City{{cite web|url=https://fierman.nyc/cob|title=Circus of Books: Blowout|website=Fierman Gallery}}
• 2021 – Clay Pop, Jeffrey Deitch, New York City{{cite web|url=https://deitch.com/new-york/exhibitions/clay-pop|title=Clay Pop|website=Jeffrey Deitch}}
• 2023 – Clay Pop Los Angeles, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles
• 2023 – WARES! Extraordinary Ceramics and the Ordinary Home, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara{{cite web|url=https://www.sbma.net/exhibitions/wares|title=WARES! Extraordinary Ceramics and the Ordinary Home|website=Santa Barbara Museum of Art}}

• 2021 – Wild Frontiers, The Pit, Los Angeles{{cite web|url=https://www.the-pit.la/wild-frontiers|title=Wild Frontiers|website=The Pit}}

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