AGOSTO MACHADO, SHRINE (WHITE), 2022
Many of the objects in this shrine symbolize the losses Machado experienced due to violence against the queer community and the AIDS crisis. This work was created to celebrate and commemorate the people who influenced his life and help their memory live on…
DIANA BLOK, BLOOD TIES AND OTHER BONDS
Diana Blok describes herself as a studio photographer, always working inside without anything to distract her, within the protection of the studio with its lights and shadows, its enclosing walls, an empty concave in which the subjects stand out…
PIXY LIAO, MEN AS BAGS, 2016
A popular internet phrase came up to my mind when I was making this bag. That is “I’m unhappy, I want bags.” The sentence literally means when a female is trying to get comforts from a man, she asks him to buy her luxury bags…
ELIZABETH WATERMAN, MONEYGAME THAILAND, 2025 - ONGOING
As the epicenter of South Asia’s sex industry, Thailand had appealed to me for years. With my basic Thai and an excellent producer, I finally went there for the first time in 2023..
CARMEN WINANT, THE LAST SAFE ABORTION, 2024
In “The last safe abortion,” artist Carmen Winant considers the labor of women’s health clinics and abortion providers in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, North Dakota, and Ohio..
ERIC GYAMFI, JUST LIKE US, 2016
In his series Just Like Us (2016), the photographer Eric Gyamfi explores the contradictions of queer life in Ghana. His work chronicles what it means to be “other” in a nation of people who have a remarkably well-defined sense of what binds them together—the geographical and legal constructs that shape their national identity as Ghanaians…
MARY BETH EDELSON, SOME LIVING AMERICAN WOMEN ARTISTS, 1972
In this poster mockup referencing Leonardo da Vinci’s painting The Last Supper, Edelson collaged over the faces of Jesus and his disciples with those of her friends and idols, including artists Alma Thomas, Yoko Ono, Faith Ringgold, Agnes Martin, and Alice Neel…
SUSAN HILLER, TEN MONTHS 1977-79
Ten Months from 1977–79 is a key work in Hiller’s body of work. It consists of ten blocks, each with image and text presented in the form of a step from left to right, top to bottom…
MICHAEL YOUNG, HIDDEN GLANCES
Hidden Glances is a series of photographs made from vintage gay pornography calendars published when I was beginning to recognize my sexuality as a youth until I came out in 2000…
PACIFICO SILANO, CLOSE-UP
Pacifico Silano photographs fragments of gay pornographic magazines from the 1970s–1980s. In an era connecting the legacy of sexual revolutions with the HIV/AIDS crisis, magazines were spaces of community and resistance…
SHAWNA DEMPSEY AND LORRI MILLAN, LESBIAN NATIONAL PARKS AND SERVICES: A FORCE OF NATURE, 2002
Lesbian National Parks and Services: A Force of Nature follows the intrepid Lesbian Rangers as they patrol, educate, and illustrate lesbian survival skills…
BRIAR M. PINE, CAMOUFLAGED, 2024-PRESENT
Camouflaged explores my patriarchal lineage to investigate how masculinities are formed and performed. The project draws parallels between the history of photography and the masculine culture I was raised within, both of which carry traditions rooted in control, dominance and extraction…
ALANNA FIELDS, MIRAGES OF DREAMS PAST, 2021-2023
The artist draws upon an eclectic range of vernacular photographs of Black queer people dating from the 1960s to the 1970s. Reframing this found archive using a kaleidoscopic technique, Fields repeats and layers a single image to both reconstruct the way we process images and push beyond the constructs of nostalgia and memory...
RENÉ GROEBLI, THE EYE OF LOVE, 1952
It was their honeymoon in 1952 that took the Swiss photographer René Groebli and his wife Rita to Paris and the South of France. During this trip René Groebli photographed, but his intention was not to document, rather to create associations…
LEIGH LEDARE, AN INVITATION, 2012
Seven large-scale lithographic montages and an accompanying contract comprise An Invitation (2012), a project that resulted from an unusual request. Ms. –, a socially connected figure from a prominent family who was fascinated with Ledare’s series of photographs of and with his mother, invited him to her home and commissioned him to take erotic photographs of her for her private use…
NANCY BOROWICK, CHAPTER I: SIDE BY SIDE
The Family Imprint is the story of family, my family, looking at the experiences of two parents who were in parallel treatment for stage-four cancer, side by side…
DEAN MAJD, SEPARATION, 2018
Majd’s project Separation explores the contradictions of faith and grief, family and separation, hope and apartheid…
ANDREW KUNG, A RIVER ONCE DREAMED
In A River Once Dreamed, I recompose the Hudson River School’s romanticized paintings of the river valley by staging scenes of Asian American men casted along the Hudson…
DON HERRON, TUB SHOTS, 1978–1993
Don Herron’s “Tub Shots”, a series of portraits of underground luminaries pictured in their bathtubs dated 1978–1993. The black and white photographs create a complex landscape of the bohemian creative community circa 1980’s…
DEEPTI ASTHANA, A TALE OF TWO GIRLS
As soon as those first drops of blood trickled between my thighs, my world changed. I was a girl with short hair, one who loved playing with her brothers, but now I was being told, repeatedly, to ‘behave like a woman’…