Kat Toronto: Fantastical Fictional Narratives of the Miss Meatface

"In order to be happy, I needed to be able to focus on my creativity first and foremost, not be stuck in a depressing, dead-end job and an unhappy marriage."

Fig. 1 . Kat Toronto aka Miss Meatface "Miss Meatface as Mae West"; 2017

No Time For Tears

No Time for Tears was the first artwork by Kat Toronto that I came across. I looked at it with silence for at least an hour. What began as an immediate sense of fascination — driven by my love of leopard print and phantasmagoria as a concept, echoed in the flower-coloured bed linen and vintage furniture — gradually gave way to a deeper reflection on the work’s meaning: what it holds for the artist, and what it evokes in me as a viewer.

Fig. 2. Kat Toronto aka Miss Meatface "No Time For Tears", 2016

Special-Effects Makeup

Kat Toronto is a performance artist and photographer working under the name Miss Meatface. She created this alter ego in 2014 following the personal trauma of a total hysterectomy in 2013, which was necessitated by a rare form of cervical cancer diagnosed in 2010. Her practice has always centered on self-portraiture. Initially, she used special-effects makeup to depict wounds, black eyes, and signs of domestic violence, visualizing her inner state and transforming personal experience into art. Today, her work contains fewer overt signs of violence, yet it continues to speak about gender roles, women’s self-confidence, and self-presentation.

Fig. 3. Kat Toronto aka Miss Meatface "Flying Saucer";, 2016

Fig. 4. Kat Toronto aka Miss Meatface "SLICKON DAME"; 2023

Fig. 5. Kat Toronto aka Miss Meatface "TO DREAMS", 2016

Irving Klaw

As an artist, she drew inspiration from the works and personas of Cindy Sherman, Diane Arbus, Claude Cahun, Pierre Molinier, Joel-Peter Witkin, John Willie, and John Sutcliffe. Some of her work is connected to the Nutrix and Mutrix fetish booklets published in the 1950s and 1960s. The Nutrix Publishing Company was founded in 1952 by Irving Klaw and his sister Paula Klaw. The Klaws quickly became America’s most successful fetish publishers, a position they held until the early 1960s. The business was then sold to Ed Mishkin in 1964, who changed its name to Mutrix. Nutrix and Mutrix digest sizes are now quite rare and highly sought after by collectors.

Fig. 6. Female Captives Horror At Bondage Show

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