Visual AIDS Blog

Teiji Furuhashi's New "LIFE WITH VIRUS": Celebrating My Announcement of HIV Infection

To conclude Sho Akita's International Curatorial Residency and facilitate further research into Teiji Furuhashi’s legacy, Visual AIDS has commissioned the first English translation of the artist’s coming out letter. → Read More

Wrap-up | Comic Velocity: HIV and AIDS in Comics

Our summer exhibition has ended, but Comic Velocity continues online and in print. → Read More

VAVA VOOM Film Now Online

The Visual AIDS Vanguard Awards 2021 | Honoring Dr. Daniel S. Berger, Catherine Gund, and Frederick Weston (1946–2020) → Read More

Call for Video Proposals: Day With(out) Art 2022

Visual AIDS invites artists and filmmakers to submit proposals for new video works to be produced and distributed to over 100 venues worldwide for Day With(out) Art 2022. → Read More

Visual AIDS and What Would an HIV Doula Do? partner with MoMA PS1

In the museum's Homeroom gallery, Visual AIDS and WWHIVDD present a new zine: "HARM REDUCTION IS NOT A METAPHOR: Living in the 21st Century with Drugs, Intimacy, and Activism" → Read More

Artist Interview with Alexander Hernandez

Visual AIDS Artist Member Alexander Hernandez discusses his new soft sculptures, visual code switching, and what it means to be a POZ Mexican-American artist. → Read More

Introducing 2021 Visual AIDS Curatorial Resident Sho Akita

Sho will research the life of Japanese artist Teiji Furuhashi (1960–1995), building an archive of the creative and activist exchange that Furuhashi facilitated between Japan and the United States. → Read More

Patrick O'Connell (1953–2021)

We are saddened to learn of the passing of Patrick O'Connell, who served as the founding director of Visual AIDS from 1989 to 1995. Patrick passed away on March 23rd, 2021. → Read More

Announcing Day With(out) Art 2021

For Day With(out) Art 2021, Visual AIDS will premiere eight short videos highlighting strategies of community care within the ongoing HIV epidemic. → Read More

Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué and Jarrett Earnest on queer archives

Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué and Jarrett Earnest discuss the book 'An Excess of Quiet: Selected Sketches by Gustavo Ojeda, 1979–1989' and the work of reconstituting artistic lineages and legacies. → Read More