Visual AIDS utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over.

"The Archive Project is emotionally and physically overwhelming. I liken it to visiting the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C., or to viewing the AIDS Memorial Quilt... There is reverence, some humor and maybe some surprising names of artists who are ostensibly prisoners or casualties of a war that one may not have necessarily known they were fighting..." Arnold J. Kemp, artist / educator
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Jan 30, 2025
Journal

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." → Read More
Oct 24, 2024
Announcement

Announcing: Finding Aids for the Visual AIDS Archive

In early 2024, Visual AIDS hired our first full-time Community Archivist. An integral part of the Visual AIDS team, Jacs Rodriguez holds a Master of Library and Information Sciences degree from Pratt Institute and has worked to increase access to the holdings of the Visual AIDS Archive. In this post, Jacs announces two new finding aids they created this fall. → Read More
Oct 2, 2024
Journal

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. → Read More

Founded in 1988, Visual AIDS is the only arts organization fully committed to raising AIDS awareness and creating dialogue around HIV issues today, by producing and presenting visual art projects, exhibitions, public forums and publications - while assisting artists living with HIV/AIDS. We are committed to preserving and honoring the work of artists with HIV/AIDS and the artistic contributions of the AIDS movement.

Staff

Kyle Croft
Executive Director

Shawn Escarciga
Development Director

Blake Paskal
Programs Manager

Jacs Rodriguez
Community Archivist



Board of Directors

Marguerite Van Cook, President

Carlos Gutierrez-Solana, Treasurer

Antonio Sergio Bessa

Nayland Blake

Jim Hodges

Mark Quigley