Visual AIDS Blog

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

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

LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN 2021

Visual AIDS celebrates LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN with hundreds of handmade valentines cards for women and femmes living with HIV around the world. → Read More

Visual AIDS awarded $100K from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a Community-based Archives Grant!

This Mellon Grant Archive Project initiative will take place from January 2021 until December 2022! → Read More

I WANT A _________

On inauguration day, we are sharing a poem collectively authored by students in the class "Life During Memorialization: History and the Ongoing Epidemic of HIV/AIDS in the US" at The New School, taught by Theodore Kerr. → Read More

A Statement from Visual AIDS

We are devastated and disturbed by this week's tragic events in Washington DC. → Read More

Visual AIDS' Latest Accomplishments

A look back at some of our recent fall programming → Read More

Lifelines, Outlines, Throughlines

Noam Parness, Assistant Curator at the Leslie-Lohman Museum, reviews Eric Rhein: Lifelines, the first monograph of Rhein's work. → Read More

A Tribute to Frederick Weston, on the occasion of his birthday and the opening of his exhibition at Ortuzar Projects

Contributions from Stephanie Crawford, LJ Roberts, Pamela Sneed and more... → Read More