Queer|Art

We are excited to introduce the new Mentors for the 2027 Queer|Art|Mentorship (QAM) program cycle! Now in its 16th year, our year-long creative and professional development program supports both remote and in-person exchange between early-career and established LGBTQ+ artists from across the country in four creative fields: Literature, Visual Art, Performance, and Film.⁣ ⁣ The esteemed 2027 Mentors are Alexis DeVeaux, Pamela Sneed, Moe Angelos, Mashuq Mushtaq Deen, Chris E. Vargas, Xandra Ibarra, Isabel Sandoval, Michelle Handelman, Mattilda Bernstein-Sycamore, matteline deVries-dilling, Ishmael Houston⁣-Jones, and Lucila Moctezuma.⁣ ⁣⁣ This year’s application includes a two-part application process, with submissions for part one being accepted now through June 15th, 2026. Learn more and apply today at queer-art.org/mentorship, or through our link in bio 💜

We’re excited to share these opportunities for artists with deadlines in May and June. For a longer list of spring opportunities for artist grants, residencies, fellowships and more, visit queer-art.com/blog at the link in our bio. 📸 Cover Image of Andy Warhol shot by Brownie Harris, 1983. #queerart #opencalls #opportunitiesforartists #artistopencalls

Wishing a heartfelt “bon voyage & bon chance” to @queerart Founding Director @irasachsfilm , as he sets off to France to present his new film, “The Man I Love,” at the @festivaldecannes ! Our staff and board are cheering you on from afar 💖

This week in queer art: May 7-10: @undertow_editions , founded by 2025 QAM Fellow Nathan Storey @___nathans , will present new projects and recent collaborations at Printed Matter’s 2026 Book Fair in Los Angeles May 9: 2025 QA Mentor Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx will be in conversation with @yesaurielle Aurielle Marie about their new collection of poetry “The Way Disabled People Love Each Other” virtually via @charisbooksandmore May 10: 2014-2015 QA Mentor Jibz Cameron aka “Dynasty Handbag” @dynastyhandbag chats with Sara Jaffe @allhooknochorus about her debut memoir “Hell in a Handbag” at @alwaysherebooks Ongoing: Multiyear QA Mentor and board member Lola Flash @flashnine9 ’s solo exhibition “Believable” is on view at @jenkinsjohnsongallery in San Francisco until May 30. 📸Cover image from “Mzz Kimberly, London (surmise Series)” (2011) by Lola Flash. #queerart #nyc #losangeles #portland #sanfrancisco

We are proud and excited to highlight the judges of the 2026 Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists! 💎⁣ ⁣ Jordyn Jay @itsjordynjay is a curator, producer, and arts advocate based in Brooklyn, NY. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Black Trans Femmes in the Arts Collective (BTFA).⁣ ⁣ Isis Awad @exec_dontcare is a curator, writer, poet, and DJ from Cairo, Egypt based in the U.S. between New York and Arizona. She’s the founder of Executive Care*, a curatorial agency at the service of trans and queer artists of color from performance and nightlife.⁣ ⁣ Utē Petit @swampbender is a New-Orleans based artist and the 2022 winner of the Illuminations Grant, whose practices includes quilting, ceramics, drawing, installation, and farm work. Her work explores Black-Indigenous land-based traditions and the creation of 'Ailantha,' a free Maroon nation of heavenly beings.⁣ ⁣ You can read our illustrious judges’ complete bios and learn more about the Illuminations Grant at the link in our bio. Applications are currently open and close on July 2nd, 2026 🧡

This week in queer art:⁣ ⁣ Apr 30: 2018-2019 QAM Fellow Russell Perkins @angelshampoo opens his first UK solo exhibition Fear of Falling at Public Gallery.⁣ ⁣ May 2: Curated by 2025 QAM Fellow Nathan Storey @___nathans , RUINS: PERFORMING QUEER HISTORY is an iterative exhibition of interdisciplinary artists reckoning with queer histories, archives, and loss within their own contemporary studio practices, with an opening reception on May 2 at BEST PRACTICE in San Diego, CA.⁣ ⁣ May 2: 2023 QAM Fellow @millerrobinson is part of the 59th Carnegie International, the longest running exhibition of international art in North America, opening May 2.⁣ ⁣ May 2 and 6: 2012-2013 QAM Fellow @sashawortzel is showing her film River of Grass at O Cinema in Miami Beach, FL on May 2 and at Lyric Theatre in Stuart, FL on May 6⁣ ⁣ May 3: Multiyear QA Mentor and QA board member Lola Flash @flashnine9 gives a talk at the Cincinnati Art Museum, celebrating the recent addition of their work to the museum’s collection.⁣ ⁣ May 5: QA Communications Director Andrius Alvarez-Backus @ann_dree_uhs will moderate “Beyond Solid Ground: Towards a Fluid Formation of Identity,” an IMPULSE Forum at @ryanleegallery in conversation with the group exhibition Waves of Knowing featuring artists of the Metcalf Chateau group from Hawaii.⁣ ⁣ 📸Cover image from “ACCELERATING” (2022) by Nathan Storey. #queerart #art #london #cincinnati #florida

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This week in queer art:⁣ ⁣ Apr 23 - “The People vs. The New York Times,” co-organized by Adalah Justice Project, @blacktransliberation , @jvpny , @wawog_now , and Queer|Art, is a hybrid cross-movement event addressing the harm the NYT has caused to our movements and communities—including to trans folks, Palestinians, Black folks, and working people. Featuring panelists @mohammedelkurd , @chasestrangio , and Sabrina Imbler, moderated by @morgankindof , with closing words by @qween_jean . RSVPs are closed but the event will be livestreamed.⁣ ⁣ Apr 23 - Multi-year QA Mentor @pamela_sneed is giving an artist talk at the NYU Department of Performance Studies, followed by a Q&A moderated by Dr. Fred Moten.⁣ ⁣ Apr 25 - This is the last week to see “Landscapes” by 2015-2016 QAM Fellow @doronlangberg at @jeffreydeitchgallery in NYC.⁣ ⁣ Apr 26 - Multi-year QAM mentor Stacy Szymaszek @szymszk is celebrating the release of her new book “Starving is the Energy” with a launch event and reading at C. Cassis in Rhinebeck, NY.⁣ ⁣ Ongoing: MoMA presents the latest in their Artist’s Choice series, “Less Is Morbid,” organized by Arthur Jafa with curator and 2020 QAM Mentor Thomas Lax @ttttlax .⁣ ⁣ 📸Cover image from “Meat Rack” (2024) by Doron Langberg. #queerart #art #nyc

This week in queer art: Apr 16 & 17: QA board member and Multi-Year QAM Mentor Lola Flash @flashnine9 is the 2026 Nancy G. Unobskey Visiting Artist Series in Modern & Contemporary Art at Goucher College in Towson, MD. Their exhibition will open on April 16, with a lecture following on the 17th at 7pm.⁣ ⁣ Apr 18 & 19: From 1–6pm, artists in DUMBO, Brooklyn will open their doors to the public as a part of DUMBO Open Studios this weekend, with participating artists including 2020-2021 fellow Mev Luna @mev_merized , 2024 QAM fellow Christopher Paul Jordan @cpauljordan , and 2017-2018 QAM fellow @zanderschlacter ⁣ Apr 22: 2012-2013 QAM Fellow @sashawortzel is screening her documentary film “River of Grass” again, this time at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, NY with a Q&A to follow. ⁣ ⁣ April 22-24: Multi-year QA Mentor Avram Finkelstein @avramf is showing his drawing “Thematic Apperception Test (It Was an Accident)” as part of “SMFA150: Artists for a Changing World,” a 3-day exhibition at Pace Gallery in Chelsea celebrating the 150th anniversary of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.⁣ ⁣ Apr 23: MIX NYC presents “Barbara Hammer: Through The Eyes Of Others,” a program at @bam_brooklyn that explores the artistic output of the late pioneering lesbian experimental filmmaker and 2012-2013 QA Mentor. ⁣ ⁣ Ongoing: Multi-year QAM Mentor Jeffrey Gibson @jeffrune is showing “The Animal That Therefore I Am” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, inviting reflection on the interconnected relationships between all living beings and the environment for the 2025 Genesis Facade Commission, on view through June 9th. ⁣ ⁣ ⁣📸Cover Image from “Stay Afloat, Use a Rubber” (1993) by Lola Flash. #queerart #art #nyc #maryland #troyny

#repost from QA Mentor @cassilsartist : Today I joined @jvpny to shut down the streets for peace with many beautiful courageous people. Thank you so much to the organizers for taking such good care of us. Every detail was considered . As both youth and elders were carried off by cops, their body limp. I felt the spirit of Act UP. I am grateful to be in this lineage. Come join us! Our people are suffering without Healthcare, without climate protections, without adequate funding for public education. But our Senators keep voting to fund violence — endless bombs abroad. It must stop, we must protect precious lives. Right now, using weapons manufactured and paid for by the US, the Israeli military is flattening southern Lebanon, ethnically cleansing Palestinians from the West Bank, and continuing its genocide in Gaza. Although there is now a fragile ceasefire with Iran, thousands of Iranians have been killed in US-Israeli airstrikes with millions more injured or displaced. The US-Israel war machine is threatening the lives of millions across Iran, Lebanon and Palestine, while millions in the US can’t access basic healthcare and SNAP benefits. Senators Schumer and Gillibrand have the power to help stop this endless funding for war and genocide. It’s time they listen to their constituents and vote to stop arming Israel. ☎️ TELL CONGRESS: FUND PEOPLE, NOT BOMBS.

This week in queer art:⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Apr 8-11: Multi-year QAM Mentor Moe Angelos performs “THIS USED TO BE GAY / below 14th Street,” a historically personal sit-down walking tour via Google⁣. ⁣⁣⁣ Apr 9-12: Multi-Year QAM Mentor @avramf is presenting a two-sided silkscreen and lithograph on frosted drafting film at the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair at Powerhouse Arts, April 9-12, booth B5. ⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ Apr 9: 2012-2013 QAM Fellow @sashawortzel is screening her film River of Grass, a documentary film which is described as “an ode to the Florida Everglades,” at Wellesley College, with an artist’s talk to follow on the 10th. ⁣ ⁣ Apr 11: Marking the closing week of ‘Felix Gonzalez-Torres. “Untitled” (Go-Go Dancing Platform),’ at Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street, QA Performance Field Coordinator @nileharris  will participate in a conversation alongside Joshua Chambers-Letson, Tess Dworman, and Malik Gaines. ⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ Apr 16: (In a little over a week), brought to you by 2018-2019 QAM Fellow Candystore @agaywhitemale and DJ Gay Panic, Sexy Loving Original People (SLOP) Salon is a night of performance committed to experimentation, presence, and exchange for emerging and established artists alike. SLOP Salon performers are invited to present unpolished, unrehearsed, and risky works.⁣ ⁣ Ongoing: Multi-Year QAM Mentor and Board member @lizzycollins7 is included in the show Labor & Adornment: Radical Craft, a group exhibition bringing together artists who treat craft not as tradition preserved, but as tradition rerouted.⁣ ⁣ Ongoing: QA Communications Director @ann_dree_uhs presents his first solo exhibition with @elikleingallery debuting six major multimedia sculptures and a series of works on panel.⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ 📸 Cover Image from “Detail of Cosmic Explosion” (2008–18) by Liz Collins #queerart #nyc #wellesley #art #brooklyn

We’re excited to share these opportunities for artists with deadlines in April. For a longer list of spring opportunities for artist grants, residencies, fellowships and more, visit queer-art.com/blog at the link in our bio. 📸 Cover Image from “Red Hats” (1984) by Mariette Pathy Allen. #queerart #opencalls #opportunitiesforartists #artistopencalls