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Jerome Caja is an American artist, performance artist, and drag queen. He is best known for his work in the 1980s and 1990s, which often featured a combination of painting, photography, and performance art. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Caja attended the Cleveland Institute of Art, where he studied painting and photography. After graduating, he moved to San Francisco, where he began to explore the world of drag performance. He quickly became a fixture in the city's underground art and drag scenes, performing in clubs and galleries. Caja's work often featured a combination of painting, photography, and performance art. He was known for his use of bright colors and bold patterns, as well as his use of found objects and everyday materials. He was also known for his use of drag performance to explore gender and sexuality. In addition to his art, Caja was also an advocate for the LGBTQ+ community. He was a founding member of the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Men's Chorus, and he was a vocal supporter of AIDS awareness and prevention. Caja died in 1995 at the age of 37. He was posthumously inducted into the Legacy Walk, an outdoor public display in Chicago that celebrates LGBT history and people.

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Age 37 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 20 January 1958
Birthday 20 January
Birthplace Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Date of death November 3, 1995,
Died Place San Francisco, California, USA
Nationality United States

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1995

According to Caja, he tested positive for HIV around 1989 and began to show symptoms of sickness around 1992. Caja as well suffered from CMV retinitis as result of the diagnosis. In August and September 1995, the Archives of American Art recorded an oral history interview with Caja. He died of AIDS in San Francisco on November 3, 1995. His memorial service was held at the Hole in the Wall gay bar in South of Market, San Francisco.

1980

In the late 1980s, Caja became a well-known artistic personality within the radical gay scene in San Francisco. Caja performed as a drag queen and go-go dancer in San Francisco's queer punk nightclubs, where his performance art has been described as "post-apocalyptic deconstructive drag." In one Easter performance at Club Uranus, Caja in drag performed an elaborate reenactment of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.

1958

Jerome Caja (1958-1995) was an American mixed-media painter and Queercore performance artist in San Francisco, California in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Jerome Caja was born on January 20, 1958 in Cleveland, Ohio. Raised in a strict Catholic family, Caja was one of 11 sons. He referred to his family as a family full of jocks, although he himself was a frail sickly child. Caja having being raised in a strict Catholic household was early on heavily influenced by the imagery of saints and martyrs. Caja graduated from St. Edward High School, an all-boys catholic school, where he suffered poor grades due to dyslexia. Caja began his college education at Cuyahoga Community College and later attended Cleveland State University where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1984. He then moved to San Francisco to attend the San Francisco Art Institute and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1986.