Chris E. Vargas is a video maker & interdisciplinary artist currently based in Los Angeles, CA whose work explores the complex ways that queer and trans people negotiate spaces for themselves within historical & institutional memory and popular culture. He is the Executive Director of MOTHA, the Museum of Trans Hirstory & Art, a critical and conceptual arts & hirstory institution highlighting the contributions of trans art to the cultural and political landscape. Vargas is the co-editor, with David Evan Franz and Christina Linden, of the volume Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects (Hirmer, 2024), a project of MOTHA.