bex ya yolk (they/them) b. 1994 is a visual artist + book maker. yolk is at the helm of developing an independent artists’ book bindery— THUNGRY founded in Atlanta, GA while completing an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a full merit scholar.

Currently THUNGRY operates as a publishing initiative focused on disrupting what we’ve come to understand qualifies a book, complicating traditional ways of book building + semantics, through experimentation and queering praxis. yolk also maintains an extensive, generative, multi-year research study into the Maternal Complex, made up of subgenres like mothernism, the maternal identity, care work, reproductive design, reproductive justice, container technics, matrescence, and the gestational state especially in queer folx exploring the intersectionalities between the Book + this kind of body.