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LGBTQ+ Art

This category is a curated hub of essays and case studies on LGBTQ+ art as a system of visibility: who gets to appear, who pays the price of appearing, and how images carry memory across time.

Start here: key entries

What you’ll find

  • Artist-focused essays with close reading and historical context
  • Works shaped by AIDS-era memory, mourning, and the politics of archives
  • Trans and non-binary embodiment as form, risk, and resistance
  • Queer visibility inside institutions: canon-building, omission, tokenism

How to read this hub

  • Fast entry: start from “LGBTQ+ Art: From Classical to Contemporary”, then pick one artist case study.
  • Memory route: AIDS, loss, and the archive (Wojnarowicz, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres).
  • Body route: performance, transition, violence, and endurance (Cassils and related artists).
  • Visibility route: who gets remembered and who gets erased (Sylvia Rivera, public narratives, institutions).

If you are new, begin with the overview and then follow one route as a reading path. This archive is updated as new essays are published.

Yagwang, Raw Proof, 2024. Courtesy the artists Yagwang, Raw Proof, 2024. Courtesy the artists
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At Frieze Seoul 2026, Facade Zone turns an authorised act of demolition into a test of whether institutional critique can…

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Yagwang dismantles a Frieze Seoul booth for Facade Zone, a commission backed by Bvlgari. The work exposes hidden labour, unstable bodies and the fair’s talent for turning criticism into cultural capital.

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Pepe Espaliú being carried through the streets of Madrid during his 1992 performance Carrying. Pepe Espaliú, *Carrying*, Madrid, 1992. In the performance, the Spanish artist was carried through the streets of the city in the arms of others, turning his vulnerable body into an image of care, dependence, and solidarity during the AIDS crisis. Source: "VICE2.
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When Spain Carried Pepe Espaliú in Its Arms

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If you’re new to this wider project, start here: LGBTQ+ Art: From Classical to Contemporary. You can also browse the

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