difference and desire
This resource is intended to address difference, in terms of sexuality, as it is related to socially engaged art and artists.
All artists included here address sexuality outside of a mainstream lens through their work.
2022
Lorenzo Triburgo & Sarah Van Dyck
dani tirrell
Amy Reidel
2021
Supranav Dash
Robert Andy Coombs
Ian Lewandowski & Anthony Cudahy
Penny Molesso
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
June T. Sanders
Michéle Pearson Clarke
Brandon Anschultz
Anne Vetter
Shabez Jamal
Robert Andy Combs
2020
Shikeith
Courtney Coles
Sebastián Calfuqueo
korde arrington tuttle
2019
Astro (María Escudero)
Laurence Philomène
Paul Mpagi Sepuya
Stacy Skolnik
Marcelo Parda Arizo
Janie Stamm
Guanyu Xu
Kenneth Guthrie
Gabriel Martinez
Cobi Moules
Jake Noughton & Juan Anibal Sosa Iglesias
Sandip Kuriakose
Rob Fatal
2018
Didier William
Stephen Milner
Brian Ganter
Rafael Soldi
Jess T. Dugan
Cole Lu
Chad States
Robert Calafiore
Anthony Cudahy
Giancarlo Montes Santangelo
Kelvin Burzon
Matthew Finley
Joseph Liatela and Dorothy Santos
Kelli Connell
Logan Bellew
2017
Shawn Rowe
Lorenzo Triburgo
Kyle Vu-Dunn
Thomas Locke Hobbs
Gabriel Garcia Roman
Cornelia Hediger
Hector Rene
Samantha Geballe
PJ Raval
Lissa Rivera
Andrew J Burford
2016
Sakura Kelley
Kris Sanford
Jamil Hellu
Leonard Suryajaya
Jake Naughton
Zoë Zimmerman
Natalie Krick
Nick Clifford Simko
Adi Nes
2015
Karine Laval
D’Angelo Lovell Williams
Tiu Makkonen
TT Baum and Michael Grohall
Antwaun Sargent on Black Queer Utopia
Aperture Foundation, 2/18/2021
Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture
National Portrait Gallery, 10/5/2010
A Conversation with Carlos Motta: Art, Documentary, and Activism
Cantor Arts Center, 9/2/2021
PUBLICATIONS
Legacy Russell, Glitch Feminism
T Fleischmann, Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through
Aperture, Issue 218: Queer
Aperture, Issue 229: Future Gender
Jonathan Weinberg, ed., Art After Stonewall, 1969-1989
Harilaos Stecopoulos and Michael Uebel, eds., Desire and Difference: Homosexuality, Race, Masculinity
Elspeth H. Brown and Thy Phu, eds., Feeling Photography
W. Ian Bourland, Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s
Ricardo Montez, Keith Haring’s Line: Race and the Performance of Desire
Cait McKinney, Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies
Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Photography After Photography: Gender, Genre, History
ARTICLES
Queer Corpses: Grupo Chaclacayo and the Image of Death, Miguel A. López
The Queer Black Artists Building Worlds of Desire, Antwaun Sargent
These Queer Photobooks Changed My Life, Brendan Embser and Matthew Leifheit
Sophie Hackett on Queer Looking, Sophie Hackett
13 Publications that Reimagine Queer Visibility, Aperture Magazine
A Visual Record of Queer Experience in China, Xuan Juliana Wang
In Ghana, Visions of Queer Friendship and Love, M. Neelika Jayawardane and Eric Gyamfi
Queer Looking, Queer Being, Arno Mokros and Rowan Renee
Reinaldo Arenas: The Sexual Politics of a Queer Activist, Rafael Ocasio
Queer Exhibitions/Queer Curating, Jonathan Katz and Änne Söll
The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York City, New York
Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany
QUEER | ART, New York City, New York
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles, California
GLBT Historical Society & Museum, San Francisco, California
Stonewall National Museum & Archives, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
The ArQuives, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Australian Lesbian & Gay Archives, Melbourne, Australia
2020
Art After Stonewall, 1969-1989
Columbus Museum of Art, Mar 6 - Oct 4, 2020
Spectrosynthesis II - Exposure of Tolerance: LGBTQ in Southeast Asia
Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre, Nov 23 2019 - Mar 1 2020
On Our Backs: The Revolutionary Art of Queer Sex Work
Leslie-Lohman Museum, Sep 28 2019 - Jan 19 2020