Cory Roberts-Auli

Cory Roberts-Auli (April 10, 1963 - March 10, 1996) described himself as a gay mixed-heritage Latino. He was of Puerto Rican and Irish descent and grew up in New Jersey and later New York City, where he moved when he was 16. He was a self-taught artist who worked in painting from 1990-1996. At the beginning of his career, his paintings were traditional, using oils and acrylics. He would add other materials, such as medical supplies, to the canvas through the years. Eventually, he used HIV-infected blood and other bodily fluids as pigments for his artwork. He co-created and co-edited Infected Faggot Perspectives, a zine distributed throughout America and Germany, where he lived towards the end of his life. The zine is composed of collage, photography, and written word.

Biography from the Cory Roberts-Auli Papers finding aid by the Chicano Studies Research Center Library at UCLA.