Wednesday February 19, 2025
Visual AIDS Steps Into the Spotlight with Two Major Museum Exhibitions in 2025
Landmark exhibitions on harm reduction at MoMA PS1 and Reverend Joyce McDonald at the Bronx Museum underscore Visual AIDS's role in shaping the cultural legacy of the AIDS crisis.
Thursday February 13, 2025
Visual AIDS Spring Internship
Visual AIDS is seeking a paid intern to support with an exhibition, public programming, and social media
Wednesday January 29, 2025
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March 28, 2025
Jorge Bordello
Dreaming Snakes: Acts of illusion and protest in the work of Sergio Hernández Francés
Research Fellow Jorge Bordello presents the work of Mexican artist Sergio Hernández Francés (1964-1995), who worked across multimedia theater, performance and video. Connecting his early work as an actor and his collaborations with the rock band Santa Sabina to his later experimental video work, Bordello illuminates Sergio’s wide-ranging influence on Mexican cultural history—from the ‘rock en tu idioma’ movement, Mexican video art, and literature.

March 12, 2025
Avik Sarkar
Miss Kitty Litter Green: Spirit Sister, Glamor Goddess
On the 30th anniversary of her passing, Visual AIDS Research Fellow Avik Sarkar discusses the life and work of Miss Kitty Litter Green (1962-1995), a trans feminine and gender nonconforming visual and performance artist. Through interviews, archival materials, and close readings of her artwork, Sarkar pieces together a comprehensive portrait of Miss Kitty's irreverent, excessive, and radically empathetic creative practice.

January 30, 2025
João Eduardo Peçanha de Freitas
Fragmented Bodies, Pulverized Lives: The Self-Referential Art of Rafael França
João Eduardo Peçanha de Freitas presents the work of Brazilian artist, Rafael França (1957-1991), who co-founded the artist collective 3NÓS3 and whose practice in the 1980s ushered in a new era of video art in Brazil. He highlights how the legacy of França's work "continues to resonate in our current age of digital personas and fluid identities, offering prescient insights into the fragmented nature of contemporary existence."

October 2, 2024
Karla Vera
Let's Imagine the Cure Together: Positiva Residency
Earlier this year, nine artists from Latin American came together in Quito, Ecuador as part of the second edition of Positiva Residency, organized in collaboration with Quito’s Centro de Arte Contemporáneo (CAC) and MovHIlizate. Karla Vera, a member of the Positiva team, reports on the project.
Announcements
Wednesday February 19, 2025
Visual AIDS Steps Into the Spotlight with Two Major Museum Exhibitions in 2025
Landmark exhibitions on harm reduction at MoMA PS1 and Reverend Joyce McDonald at the Bronx Museum underscore Visual AIDS's role in shaping the cultural legacy of the AIDS crisis.
Thursday February 13, 2025
Visual AIDS Spring Internship
Visual AIDS is seeking a paid intern to support with an exhibition, public programming, and social media
Wednesday January 29, 2025
Are you a woman or femme living with HIV who would like to receive a handmade card on Valentine’s Day?
Sign up by Feb 6 to receive your Valentine!