ART IS LGBTQX
Artist Bios
David Antonio Cruz
Cruz wants to give queer people of color a place in art history. Through his painting, sculpture, and performance, Cruz gives his subjects a sense of dignity, visibility, and beauty despite the tragic narratives in their lives.
Zanele Muholi
A South African artist and visual activist working in photography, video, and installation. Muholi's work focuses on race, gender and sexuality with a body of work looking at black lesbian, gay, transgender, and intersex individuals. Muholi is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, explaining that they "identify as a human being.
Teresa Margolles
A Mexican conceptual artist, photographer, videographer and performance artist. As an artist she researches the social causes and consequences of death. Margolles communicates observations from the morgue in her home city, Mexico City, and other morgues located in Latin America.
Delaney Saul
Delaney specializes in traditional and digital portrait art. In her journey with digital art, she focuses on perfecting a unique use of vector tools to create realistic portrait paintings. Lately, she has been inspired by graphic novels and comic sequential art.
Featured Artist
Zanele Muholi is one of the most acclaimed photographers working today, and their work has been exhibited all over the world. With over 260 photographs, this exhibition presents the full breadth of their career to date.
Muholi describes themself as a visual activist. From the early 2000s, they have documented and celebrated the lives of South Africa’s black lesbian, gay, trans, queer and intersex communities.
In the early series Only Half the Picture, Muholi captures moments of love and intimacy as well as intense images alluding to traumatic events – despite the equality promised by South Africa’s 1996 constitution, its LGBTQIA+ community remains a target for violence and prejudice.
Research supported by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational.