Gerry Visco

Gerry Visco

Gerry Visco is a performer, writer, and photographer.

She has appeared at such venues as The Wild Project, the Creative Time Gala, Chantal’s House of Shame in Berlin, Cafe, Envoy Gallery, The Slipper Room, and in numerous films, including Woody Allen’s “Stardust Memories” and Abel Ferrara’s “4.44 Last Day on Earth.” Visco currently writes for Interview Magazine and online art magazine Hyperallergic. She has written hundreds of articles which have appeared in NY Press and Out. Her photography has appeared in NY Magazine, The Village Voice, The Daily News, and Gawker and has been shown at the Munch Gallery in NYC, and Gallery U in Montclair, NJ and Detroit, Michigan. The Village Voice named her Bravest Nightlife Photographer of 2010. Gerry holds a BA in Literature, an MFA in Writing, and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University and is a certified yoga teacher from the Iyengar Institute.

She is currently writing a tell-all memoir about her colorful life as muse, fag hag, and rent girl, in the gritty glamorous world of New York City during the 1970s and 1980s.