Please be advised that the Museum has reopened and is enforcing social distancing guidelines. Timed ticketing is suggested.
THROUGH JUNE 26, 2021
JUNE 4 - AUG 1, 2021
Presented in partnership with TRNK Editions
THROUGH OCT, 2021
THROUGH JUNE, 2021
![How do we experience queer identity amid today’s torrents of avatars, app-filtered selfies, and near-instantaneous obsolescence? How do we document queer culture going forward, when representation appears as a haze of possibilities? OMNISCIENT presents a group of 40 artists navigating these rapidly evolving visual languages. Their work marks the legacy of twentieth-century visual histories while negotiating the accelerated image cultures of the present—mapping queer cultural identity with a particular affection, skepticism, and prescience only arrived at from the social margins.
Curated by Avram Finkelstein (@avramf).
Participating artists, on view beginning June 18:
Justin Allen, Angela Dufresne, Joy Episalla, Roey Victoria Heifetz, Izidora L. LETHE, Glenn Ligon, Russell Perkins, Catalina Schliebener, Jonny Sopotiuk, Paul Wong.
On view beginning July 16:
Stephen Andrews, Sarah E. Brook, Wells Chandler with Brandi Twiley and Jennifer Coates, Liz Collins, Kerry Downey, Yevgeniy Fiks, Chitra Ganesh, Nicki Green, Erik Hanson, Tahir Carl Karmali, Deborah Kass, Esvin Alarcón Lam, Kang Seung Lee, Loring McAlpin, Omar Mismar, Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe, Russell Perkins, em north, José Rafael Perozo, LJ Roberts, Edith Isaac Rose, Anna Sew Hoy, Aliza Shvartz, Pacifico Silano, Pamela Sneed, Thomas Tomczak, Jason Villegas, Frederick Weston.
[📸: (1) Paul Wong, Year of GIF, 2013. GIF video installation (still), 5 min. loop. (c) the artist; (2) Catalina Schliebener, Satanic Panic series (detail), 2021. Collage, graphite, and thread on mat, 40.25 x 32.25 in. (c) the artist; (3) Justin Allen, 2018.1.24, 2018. Digital print, 20 x 15 in. (c) the artist.]](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/200498177_323451422764220_6264829115491225450_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=xPm0Hom8T2YAX-WlDBP&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=07adad90ac2ca90e41662b77bbd9955a&oe=60CD519D)
![“By interpolating queer blood into a narrative of superstrength, [Jordan] Eagles heroicizes queer bodies. His work offers an urgent and painful reminder of the work that needs to be done, but it also reminds us of the magical, life-giving power of queer blood.” - Ryan Linkof, Curator at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.
In honor of #WorldBloodDonorDay we are spotlighting a new project by artist Jordan Eagles (@jordaneagles) called, “Queer Blood America” (2021). The project is in conversation with Eagles’ previous online exhibition, hosted by the Museum, “CAN YOU SAVE SUPERMAN” (June - Dec, 2020), that spoke to the massive blood shortages during COVID and the FDA’s discriminatory policies restricting gay and bisexual men from donating blood and plasma.
“Queer Blood America”🩸 is based on the Marvel comic, “Captain America” from 1982 and paired with a tube of queer blood. Presented by New Discretions (@newdiscretions), the full project includes an accompanying text by Ryan Linkof exploring the relationship between comic book superheroes, homophobia, and the resilience and potency of queer bodies. The project also includes animations released as NFTs with a portion of the proceeds supporting Visual AIDS (@visual_aids) and The Center (@lgbtcenternyc).
→ Head to the link in our profile, or visit QueerBloodAmerica.com to learn more!
[📸: Jordan Eagles, "Queer Blood America", 2021]](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/200281110_121621470091334_5017083743902076066_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=iYF0YGbX33AAX8VyRgX&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=db9047bc22c95f069c5b75473d173f8f&oe=60CD2446)
![THIS IS ART DO NOT DELETE!
Yesterday we attempted to post a video by artist/writer Randa Jarrar (@randajarrar); it was deleted by @instagram 3 times!
This work was commissioned to mark the closing of our exhibition, “Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell” (on view through June 26). It’s the first of 3 short artist videos (forthcoming videos by Raquel Gutiérrez @raquefella, & Amelia Bande @meliosmelios) in response to the exhibition—watch the full series at the 🔗 in profile 🎞. After sharing Jarrar’s powerful audio/visual love letter to Aguilar @instagram removed the work for going “against community guidelines on nudity or sexual activity”, and sent a warning that our account may be deleted. Jarrar’s video, directed by Violet Price, was inspired by 3 significant Aguilar photographs “Three Eagles Flying”, “Nature Self Portrait 6”, & “In Sandy's Room”. All 3 works speak to Laura’s courageous rebellion against the colonization of Latinx identities — racial, gendered, cultural, and sexual; her struggles to negotiate and navigate her ethnicity and sexuality; and her challenges with depression and auditory dyslexia, and the acceptance of herself and her large body.
BIPOC, queer people, large bodied people, people in marginalized bodies, women, and female-presenting bodies are disproportionately censored by @instagram. According to @guardian “Images in breach of Instagram’s community guidelines are flagged through a mix of manual reporting [outsourced, underpaid labors] and AI tech.” White bodies and experiences continually post unflagged. What does this tell us about the ways AI is taught to extend and magnify racism, sexism, ableism, transphobia, and fatphobia to further the oppression and erasure of marginalized communities? Artist Clarity Haynes (@alesbiangaze) spoke about the censorship of QTBIPOC artists on social media back in 2018, for @hyperallergic. She notes, “It would seem that much of queer feminist culture is unfit for social media.” @instagram has updated its guidelines since 2018, but clearly still has a long way to go.
📣 Please repost & call out @instagram's discriminatory practices!
➡ Read Haynes’ article via 🔗 in profile.
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![Last weekend we opened CHOSEN, a new group exhibition & fundraiser in collaboration with NYC-based design studio and curatorial platform TRNK (@trnknyc). Featuring the work of 8 photographers, and celebrating queer kinship, the exhibition includes artist Mengwen Cao (@mengwencao), Clifford Prince King (@cliffordprinceking), Myles Loftin (@mylesloftin), Groana Melendez (@groana), Golden (@goldenthem_), Alexis Ruiseco-Lombera (@guajire), Coyote Park (@nativeboytoy), and Ka-Man Tse.
The artworks on view at the Museum (and online) are part of a rotational exhibition that spotlight a dynamic artist pairing each week through August 1, 2021. Today through June 13th check out the work of Coyote Park (@nativeboytoy) & Clifford Prince King (@cliffordprinceking) 💖
➡️ Limited edition prints are for purchase via the link in our profile. Proceeds will be shared between the participating artists and the Museum.
[📸: 1. Clifford Prince King, “Grand Rising”, 2021; 2. Coyote Park, “Morning After” Tee Park & Coyote Park, October 2020.]
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![Mañana ☀️ Te invitamos a participar junto a lx artistx y educadorx Catalina Schliebener (@catalina_schliebener) a un recorrido virtual en español que destaca algunas de las obras de nuestra exposición actual "Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell". Este programa de una hora invita a visitantes de todas las edades a participar en un debate activo sobre las obras expuestas.
“Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell” es la primera retrospectiva integral de la fotógrafa #LauraAguilar (1959-2018) que reúne más de 70 obras producidas a lo largo de tres décadas. A través de fotografías y videos que son frecuentemente políticos y personales, y que atraviesan géneros de arte performativo, feminista y queer, Aguilar ofrece representaciones sinceras de sí misma, sus amigxs y familiares, y las comunidades LGBTQ+ y Latinx d elas que fomaba parte. La exposición cuenta la historia de la artista que durante la mayor parte de su vida luchó por comunicarse con palabras, pero que irónicamente, emergió como una voz poderosa para numerosos y diversos grupos marginados."
➡️ Puedes registrarte para este tour en el link de nuestro perfil (bio).
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Tomorrow☀️ Join Leslie-Lohman teaching-artist Catalina Schliebener for a virtual tour highlighting works from our current exhibition "Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell". This one hour program invites visitors of all ages to participate in active discussion around the works on view.
“Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell” is the first comprehensive retrospective of photographer #LauraAguilar (1959-2018) assembling more than 70 works produced over three decades. Through photographs and videos that are frequently political as well as personal, and which traverse performative, feminist, and queer art genres, Aguilar offers candid portrayals of herself, her friends and family, and LGBTQ+ and Latinx communities. The exhibition tells the story of the artist who for most of her life struggled to communicate with words, yet ironically emerged as a powerful voice for numerous and diverse marginalized groups.”
➡️ Sign up for this tour via the link in our profile.
Laura Aguilar, “Armando”, 1984, © Laura Aguilar / Courtesy @laura_aguilar_photo 2016 and @ucla_csrc]](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/197140102_2968852296724801_6339228713562147665_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=kJhiQ5J1htcAX_R_30L&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=b3a647449975f88938195932a30d7dcc&oe=60CDDC9B)
![Are you looking to begin (or expand) your queer photography collection and support queer artists and the Museum? Now's your chance! Opening TODAY 📣 Friday, June 4th, we are excited to unveil CHOSEN a special two-month group exhibition and fundraiser in collaboration with NYC-based design studio and curatorial platform TRNK (@trnknyc).
Featuring the work of 8 photographers, and celebrating queer kinship, the exhibition depicts moments of everyday love and intimacy shared within chosen families. Amid the social and systemic barriers and constrictions of cis-hetero normativity, these images remind us that our beauty, strength, and trust is a force for remaking the world. CHOSEN includes artists Mengwen Cao (@mengwencao), Clifford Prince King (@cliffordprinceking), Myles Loftin (@mylesloftin), Groana Melendez (@groana), Golden (@goldenthem_), Alexis Ruiseco-Lombera (@guajire), Coyote Park (@nativeboytoy), and Ka-Man Tse.
Opening TODAY and on view through August 1, 2021, the artworks will be on display at the Museum (and online) as part of a rotational exhibition featuring a pair of artists each week: Coyote Park & Clifford Prince King (on view June 4-13) Groana Melendez & Golden (on view June 18-27), Alexis Ruiseco-Lombera & Myles Loftin (on view July 2-11), Mengwen Cao & Ka-Man Tse (on view July 16-August 1).
➡️ Limited edition prints are for purchase via the link in our profile. Proceeds will be shared between the participating artists and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.
[All 📸 © / courtesy the artists]
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![Sinan Tuncay (@sinantuncay) #LeslieLohmanArtistFellow (2020-2021) is a Turkish artist from Istanbul and based in New York. Tuncay’s photography and video work oscillates between the patriarchal tropes of Turkey's cultural landscape and the struggles of his queer identity. Departing from the illustrative quality of Ottoman Manuscripts, Tuncay makes photo-collage tableaus that prioritize flatness over perspective, public over intimacy. He captures mainly himself as figures in the compositions to examine his relation to the performative aspect of masculinity.
The spatial elements in his work are collages of taken and found photographs, as well as the images of scale models that he builds. Tuncay considers architecture as a tool to explore gender and potency (and impotency) that a man holds over his own body as well as over other men. Projecting self into the other; public into intimate and gigantic into miniature; Tuncay's meticulous tableaus compose queer constructs in which shapes, tools and gestures allude to the non-masculine. [Excerpts @osmancanyerebakan for @hamammagazine, 2021]
Tuncay is currently working on an upcoming group exhibition that will take place at the Sakip Sabanci Museum in Istanbul (@sakipsabancimuzesi), in late 2021.
Learn more at 🌹 www.sinantuncay.com 🌹
#SaveTheDate JUNE 4th, 6:30–8:30 PM (EDT) Join Tuncay, Vick Quezada (@vickquezada), and Anna Parisi (@aluparisi) in conversation with writer & curator Osman Can Yerebakan (@osmancanyerebakan) for the final virtual public program spotlighting the 4th cohort of the LLMA Artist Fellowship. ➡️ RSVP via the link in our profile.
#LeslieLohmanMuseum
All 📸 courtsey the artist:
1. Sinan Tuncay, Self Portrait, “I Can Be Everything You Told Me Not to Be”, 2019.
2. Sinan Tuncay, The Ball Among Us, “Reserved for the Men I’ve Never Become”, 2019.
3. Sinan Tuncay, Bridal Bath, “Public Intimacy”, 2015.
4. Sinan Tuncay, Wedding Night, “Public Intimacy”, 2015.
5. Sinan Tuncay, Detail Clip from “Treat Me Like A Friend”, 2019.
6. Sinan Tuncay, It’s Roll Call, “Reserved for the Men I’ve Never Become”, 2019.
7. Sinan Tuncay, “Pardon Our Appearance”, 2017.](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/196326213_478530609922564_705854810992527398_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=mozQ5S7LfwYAX9yKve8&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=6b36131b45c8436004c75628bb0e751d&oe=60CD7C2D)
![Check out this latest feature on “Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell” in @artforum! AND #ShoutOut to LLMA board member, artist & scholar, Deborah Bright (@deborahbrightart).
“In her influential 1985 essay “Of Mother Nature and Marlboro Men,” artist and writer Deborah Bright called on women to “recoup landscape photography for themselves in response to its present character as a male preserve.” Aguilar’s standout photo series “Nature Self-Portraits,” 1996, and “Grounded,” 2006, ingeniously subvert the Wild West genre while taking up Bright’s invitation: In both, the artist merges her own body with the forms and bends of arid regions in California and New Mexico.“
Thank you, Lauren O’Neill-Butler (@loneillbutler) & @artform for the highlight🌹
➡️ Head to 🔗 in our profile to read the article!
“Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell” [on view through June 26] assembles more than 70 works produced over three decades, by photographer Laura Aguilar (1959-2018).
Visit the Museum FRI-SUN ➡️ Reserve your tickets via 🔗 in profile!
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![Have you enjoyed learning about the talented artists in the 4th cohort of the international LLMA Artist Fellowship? Stay tuned as we spotlight 💡the remaining Fellows before the final virtual programs commence. For the final event, we have the pleasure of welcoming writer and curator Osman Can Yerebakan (@osmancanyerebakan) in conversation with LLMA Artist Fellows; Sinan Tuncay (@sinantuncay), Vick Quezada (@vickquezada), and Anna Parisi (@aluparisi) following their presentations.
Join Yerebakan with the Fellows, Friday, June 4th from 6:30 to 8:30 pm (EDT).
🔥🔥 Register through the link in our profile🔥 🔥
Osman Can Yerebakan is a writer and curator based in New York. His writing has appeared on New York Times: T Style Magazine, The Guardian, New York Magazine, Paris Review, Artforum, Art in America, Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, Artnet, Playboy, Village Voice, Architectural Digest, and elsewhere. Among the venues he has curated exhibitions for are the Queens Museum, Leslie-Lohman Project Space, and La MaMa Galleria.
#LeslieLohmanMuseum #LeslieLohmanArtistFellowship
[📸 Osman Can Yerebakan, photo © Yunlin Zhu, 2021]](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/195297459_970511653749358_790962261681854779_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=vTIwc0SiXvwAX9unhZV&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=a96ff9ef395cad7fb2c7d24c06fce71d&oe=60CECAF8)
![Exhibition Closing 🚨 Have you visited our current exhibition, “Dissolution”? Now’s your chance, this is the final weekend before the exhibition closes on Sunday, May 30th at 6 pm (EDT).
➡️ Get your (free) tickets today by following the the link in our prifile!
Part 2 of “Dissolution” features works of art by the artists in the first two cohorts of the annual Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship (2017-2019). The Fellows come from disparate backgrounds and engage in equally divergent art practices, and their artwork presents a multitude of positions within contemporary queer identity. Part 2 includes artists Boris Torres (@boristorres), Caitlin Rose Sweet (@caitlinrosesweet, Carrie Hawks (@maroonhorizon), Christopher Unpezverde Núñez, Desireena Almoradie (@deswad), #FrederickWeston, Jason Villegas (@chubbytanuki), Lola Flash (@flash9), Nash Glynn (@nashglynn), Salvador Muñoz (@salmunoz.jpg), and Seyi Adebanjo (@tengade_productions).
[📸: Federick Weston, “Blue Bathroom Blues”, 1999. Courtesy of Gordon Robichaux Gallery, NY (@gordonrobichaux]
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![Do you remember the last time you went to an #IRL performance? Neither can we. This is why we are so excited to open our doors to the public for the first in-person presentation by the Museum in over two years with a durational performance by artist Carlos Martiel (@martielcarlos).
#SaveTheDate Jun 2nd, 6-8pm. ➡️Register via the link in our profile!
Building on Cuban and international histories, Martiel’s artistic repertoire offers visceral political critiques on social tensions while both embodying and challenging commonly perceived limitations. The performance will gesture toward the vulnerabilities of Black and Latinx LGBTQ people in HIV/AIDs discourse where structural stigmatization, systematic racism, poverty and lack of access to adequate healthcare continue to adversely weigh down marginalized communities who are immensely affected by such inequities.
Carlos Martiel (b. 1989, Havana) lives and works in NY. Martiel’s works have been shown in the biennials of Venice, Sharjah, and Vancouver; at the Stedelijk Museum, Walker Art Center, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, MOLAA, Frost Art Museum, and the National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana, and elsewhere. His works are included in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum; Museu de Arte do Rio, and the PAMM, among others.
✨Guest curated by Kevin Q. Ewing (@him_dwnstairs)
[📸: Carlos Martiel, “Encomienda” (2018), CCK, Buenos Aires, Argentina.]](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/191514390_946413652786791_5767195944107295300_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=X-1s_gQ2Lk0AX9BIAN2&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=7288beba14b09b7b915fd49e10516546&oe=60CDBB23)
![📣 This Thursday, May 27 at 7PM (EDT) join artist Dayna Danger (@daynadanger) for the last “Remote Intimacies” performance of the season! Danger will draw their performance/screening from their immersion in the hide tanning traditions passed down from their great-grandmother. Danger will join from the Buckskin Babes Hide Tanning Camp in Tio'tia:ke, or so-called Montreal, Canada, where they are currently in residence. Following the screening, Danger will be in conversation with curator Regan DeLoggans (@phaggot.planet,
@indigenouskinshipcollective)
💥Follow the link in our profile to register💥
Dayna Danger is a 2Spirit/Queer, Metis/Saulteaux/Polish visual artist raised in so called Winnipeg, MB. Using photography, sculpture, performance, and video, Danger‘s practice questions the line between empowerment and objectification by claiming space with their larger-than-life scale work. Their current use of BDSM and beading leather fetish masks explores the complicated dynamics of sexuality, gender, and power in a consensual and feminist manner. Danger is currently based in Tio'tia:ke. Danger holds an MFA in Photography from Concordia University. Danger has exhibited her work in Santa Fe, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Montreal, Peterborough, North Bay, Vancouver, Edmonton and Banff. Danger currently serves as a board member for the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective (ACC/CCA).
Regan de Loggans (they/theme) (Mississippi Choctaw/ Ki’Che Maya) is a two-spirit agitator, art historian, curator and educator based in Canarsie land in so-called Brooklyn. Their work relates to decolonizing, indigenizing, and queering institutions and curatorial practices. They are a member of the Indigenous Kinship Collective: NYC. They have staged actions at the Whitney Biennial, American Museum of Natural History and on the MTA Subway in response to continued settler colonialism and institutionalized racism and violence.
"Remote Intimacies" is a series of experimental performances created specifically for online viewing and commissioned and co-organized by the ONE Archives at USC Libraries (@onearchives) and the Museum.
[📸: @craigcommandacreations, 2021]
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