Kayden Beseler (he/him) is a ceramic artist and museum and information professional based in Eastern Wisconsin. Combining his background in museums and archives with his lived experience as a gay transgender man, he uses art to record Queer stories that have historically been excluded from public consciousness.

Beseler integrates archival images and materials into his pieces, allowing fleeting traces of Queer life to persist in the present and provoke engagement with untold histories. He also uses artmaking to capture moments of Queer intimacy and domesticity in the present day, actively recording his own personal history through his relationships and transition.

Using clay as a medium, Beseler reimagines the archive, utilizing ceramics as a durable alternative to ephemeral paper-based records. By embracing the nature of ceramics, which are physically enduring, these works are designed to survive across millennia, cementing Queer stories into the historic record.

Beseler earned a Bachelor of Arts in Arts Management from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in 2023. He is pursuing his Master of Library and Information Science in Archival Studies from Louisiana State University. He is the Archives and Database Assistant at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, where he supports the institutional library and archives. His art has been exhibited at the Art Garage and the Lawton Gallery in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.