Photo courtesy the artist

Yozmit the DogStar
Saturday May 31 | 7PM-10PM

With Lindsey Red-Tail

I am “Yozmit The DogStar”, a Transgender singer-songwriter, performance artist, and costume designer. I started my career as a fashion designer then transformed myself into a performance artist when my opportunity to become a Kpop star was violently cut because of objections against my gender. I was heartbroken. After immigrating to California, I went on a spiritual artistic journey to find my voice as a trans-identified artist curating my own Music/Fashion/Performance Art Campaign called *DoYou*. The DogStar uses self-awareness and art practice as tools for liberation from inequality, bigotry, and marginalization around gender and identity. I hope to inspire not only the queer community but also the mainstream audience to seek liberation and unity together. I use voice, dance, and costumery as theatrical/shamanic trinity to tell stories about “Yozmit The DogStar” the goddess archetype who is my higher channel using my male form but embodying both The Sacred Feminine and The Sacred Masculine. In my artistic cosmology, as Yozmit’s conduit, I create songs, looks, costumes, public performances, and workshops and spread her message of *DoYou* – a process of becoming fully self-realized and actualizing self-identity. *DoYou* is my artistic mantra to shift power from external conformity to internal realization. My work has shown in WeHo LGBTQ Arts Festivals, TransPride LA, LifeBall Vienna, Lincoln Center NY, Queens Museum NY, Chuncheon Mime Festival Korea, Doma Arts Festival Bulgaria, Google Quantum AI Seminar and many more. I received multiple “Transgender Initiative” grants from the city of West Hollywood since 2017, California Arts Council’s Individual Artist Fellowships in 2023, and COLA master artist fellowship from DCA in 2025. 

The LAX Micro Fest is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture. Los Angeles Performance Practice is also supported, in part, by The Mellon Foundation, The Perenchio Foundation, and the California Arts Council.