SOPHIA POPPY ERICKSON, GLITCH IN THE SYSTEM
To be trans is to be a glitch—an interruption in the binary, a rupture in the system. But in the fracture, there is also liberation. Glitch in the System explores the beauty that emerges when trans bodies are freed from surveillance, when privacy becomes a sanctuary, and when self-encryption allows for true autonomy…
ALEC DAI, OFFERED TENDERNESS
The project ‘Offered Tenderness,’ advised by photographer Danna Singer, where he traveled across the U.S. from Butte, Montana (where early Chinese railroad workers migrated) to Hartford, Connecticut (where author Ocean Vuong’s ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ takes place), seeking remnants of his queer Asian identity in this country…
DEBORAH BRIGHT, DREAM GIRLS, 1989-90
I came out as a lesbian in 1985 in the midst of the AIDS catastrophe. It felt urgent to stand up and be counted when conservatives, including President Reagan, were using AIDS as a weapon against queer lives...
REMSEN WOLFF, AMSTERDAM GIRLS
These unique portraits range from the exuberant and glamorous to the subdued and vulnerable. Together, the photographs show the huge variety in gender fluidity in the 1990s, beyond the spotlight of notorious nightclubs such as Club RoXY and iT…
ANTHONY FRIEDKIN, THE GAY ESSAY, 1969-1973
In making his photographic series The Gay Essay (1969–1973), Anthony Friedkin approached his subjects with an open and inquiring mind to achieve a portrait of a community and its habitués that is fearless and devoid of judgment…
ALMA LOPEZ, OUR LADY, 1999
Our Lady, the piece which some members of the Santa Fe Catholic community found offensive, is a digital photograph representing the Virgin of Guadalupe…
PHILLIP GUTMAN, INVASION OF THE PINES
The subjects are glorious drag queens who have made the annual July 4th pilgrimage to Fire Island Pines from Cherry Grove by boat, a ritual that originated as an act of protest on July 4th, 1976, the American Bicentennial…
ROBERT GIARD, NUDES
The nudes began with my first body of work in 1974: a series of self- Thereafter, friends, lovers, and acquaintances served as the occasions for the male nudes…
CHANCE DEVILLE, GROWING TIRED OF CALLOUSED KNEES
Growing Tired of Calloused Knees” attempts to carry the multitude of issues that stem from domestic abuse as a catalyst for mental illness, poverty, and substance abuse. It’s a project that peels itself back, buckling from the pressure; a palatable view of troubled situations attempting resolve…
COURTNEY COLES, MOMMA
The very foundation of my practice is rooted in my fascination with the multiple ways I consider people, places, and memories “home” and my desire to preserve it. I am enthralled by making photographs that are soft and sincere because the world has been anything but to Black queer women like me...
AJAMU X, EARLY WORKS, 1990-1995
Ajamu X (HON FRPS) is a darkroom/fine art photographic artist. His philosophical provocations and aesthetics celebrate black queer bodies, the erotic senses, pleasure, and the sensual-material attributes of image production…
DONNA GOTTSCHALK, IMAGES FROM “BRAVE, BEAUTIFUL OUTLAWS”
Donna Gottschalk, a photographer active in the early period of radical lesbian organizing in New York and California during the 1970s. Gottschalk came out as a lesbian right at the formation of the radical lesbians and Furies collectives on the east coast, where she met lesbian artists JEB (Joan E. Biren), Flavia Rando, and others, and later moved to California to join lesbian-separatist communities…
SABELO MLANGENI, COUNTRY GIRLS, 2003-2009
Glamour and grittiness combine in Sabelo Mlangeni's Country Girls series, an intimate portrait of gay life in the countryside. Mlangeni took the photographs in small towns and rural areas in the Mpumalanga province. Driefontein, Ermelo, Bethal, Piet Retief, Standerton and Sekunda - nodes of mining, agriculture, forestry, and coal-fed power stations….
VAGINAL DAVIS, THE WHITE TO BE ANGRY, 1999
Vaginal Davis’s touchstone work, The White to be Angry, challenges white supremacy culture in the United States through irony and pastiche. Davis is a key figure in the history of queer music, performance, and video art, whose work bridged the queer performance and punk club scenes of Los Angeles in the late 1970s…
AUSTN FISCHER, JESTERS GENDER GAME
Jesters Gender Game, a celebration of historical queer artists' fearless exploration of gender performance. This photographic project draws inspiration from visionaries like Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, who challenged gender norms through provocative self-portraits…
DILLON BRYANT, BLACK HILLS
My practice explores constructions of home, desire, family mythologies, and the landscape in relation to the LGBT+ experience through collage and photography. Taken and found images sourced from family albums, maps, guide books, magazines, and other archives are reorientated to examine the legacies of western expansion and mining in the American West with focus on sites in South Dakota (SD) and California…
CARLOS MARTIEL, SEDIMENTO, 2024
I lay on the floor of the gallery with my body near a mound of fertile soil. My mother grabs small handfuls of soil and places them on my body until I am buried. Then she leaves…
DAVID WOJNAROWICZ, SEX SERIES, 1988-89
Working in New York City’s East Village during the late 1980s, Wojnarowicz created art that was both intensely political and deeply personal. The Sex Series emerged from an overwhelming sense of loss—of loved ones, of privacy…
PAZ ERRÁZURIZ, LA MANZANA DE ADÁN (ADAM’S APPLE)
The need to investigate environments wholly condemned in the oppressive context of the Chilean dictatorship (1973–90) led the photographer Paz Errázuriz to embark on a project on marginalized subjects that she would pursue over the course of several years…
GEORGE PLATT LYNES, SELECT NUDES
George Platt Lynes was a renowned American fashion and commercial photographer who enjoyed the prime of his career during the 1930s and 1940s. Although he was very sought after by major fashion publications for his beautiful images and stunning compositions, his real passion was the male nude, which he photographed extensively in the privacy of his studio…