Originally trained as a theater and performance artist, his photographic work emphasizes set building and stage-craft, visual fantasies that highlight the inherent pleasure, sacredness, filth, and camp performativity of queerness. 

A.R. Havel is a multidisciplinary artist originally from San Antonio, Texas. There, in collaboration with radical theater ensemble Jump-Start performance Co. He learned a community-activated form of artistic practice. Before moving to New Orleans, he attended Hampshire College in Massachusetts. Originally trained as a theater and performance artist, his photographic work emphasizes set building and stage-craft, visual fantasies that highlight the inherent pleasure, sacredness, filth, and camp performativity of queerness.