Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art

Name: Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
Address: 26 Wooster Street, New York, NY, 10013, US
Telephone: +12124312609
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The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art provides a platform for artistic exploration through multi-faceted queer perspectives. Open Friday-Sunday, 12-6 PM.
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We embrace the power of the arts to inspire, explore, and foster understanding of the rich diversity of LGBTQ+ experiences. Created by our founders to preserve LGBTQ+ identity and build community, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art acts as a cultural hub for the LGBTQ+ community. Our roots trace back to 1969 when Charles Leslie and Fritz Lohman held an exhibit of gay artists for the first time in the

ir SoHo loft. Throughout the 1970s, they continued to collect and exhibit gay artists while supporting the SoHo art community. During the AIDS pandemic of the 1980s, the collection continued to grow as they rescued the work of dying artists from families who, out of shame or ignorance, wanted to destroy it. This led to the formation of the Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation in 1987. In recognition of its importance in the collection and preservation of LGBTQ+ history, the organization was accredited as a museum in 2016. With a collection of over 30,000 objects, the Museum hosts six major exhibitions annually, offers several public programs throughout the year, publishes an arts newsletter, and maintains a research library of over 3,000 volumes. The Museum examines the juxtaposition between art and social justice in ways that provoke thought and dialogue. Located at 26 Wooster Street in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, admission is open to all with a suggested donation of $10. The Museum is a nonprofit organization and is exempt from taxation under section 501(c)3 of the IRS Code

05/29/2025

Show your pride this June with Juan Pablo Echeverri’s MariconnA T-Shirt with a portion of sales benefitting LLMA as the world’s only dedicated LGBTQIA+ art museum! Wear this exclusive re-edition of the late Colombian artist’s own tee made by Platform () in partnership with the artist’s estate. Originally produced in the early 2000s in black with white text, for Pride this year, Platform is re-releasing Echeverri’s iconic t-shirt in white.

Juan Pablo Echeverri (1978-2022) was a renowned contemporary visual artist from Bogotá, Colombia. Working in photography and video, his extensive body of artwork developed from daily self-portraits begun as a teenager into an exploration of how we construct ourselves in the sight of others. Obsessed with the performativity of identity, his work q***red fantasies of the self, oscillating between the point of view of icon and superfan. For the MariconnA T-Shirt, Echeverri riffed on rock band Metallica’s logo, creating his own symbol that re-appropriated a Spanish slur for “gay” that he used throughout his practice and on clothing he wore.

🔗Order your t-shirt now at the link in our bio!

05/23/2025

Llanor Alleyne’s () mixed media collage, “Another Poem (For Colin Robinson),” is among the works to recently join our collection of more than 30,000 objects. Born in Barbados and raised in New York, Alleyne explores q***r and feminine identities from a Caribbean perspective, using the many layers of collage to depict the complexity of the q***r or feminine self. Her identification with flowers, seeds, leaves, and vines comes from their significance in Caribbean culture as symbols of resilience and change.

This work was commissioned for our 2024 exhibition “The Plural of He,” a tribute to Trinidadian American poet, critic, and activist Colin Robinson (1961–2021), curated by Andil Gosine. Robinson was co-founder of the New York State Black Gay Network, the Audre Lorde Project, and, in Trinidad and Tobago, the Coalition Advocating for Inclusion of Sexual Orientation (CAISO). “Another Poem” grounds Robinson’s rich activist and poetic legacy in his two homes. The silhouette at the center of the work is based on a Robert Giard photograph of Robinson in New York City (which is also in our collection), and the mountains are inspired by photos of Robinson’s home in Trinidad and Tobago.
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, “Another Poem (For Colin Robinson)” (2023), mixed media collage; painted paper and mylar, acrylic, gouache, watercolor, and printmaking markings and shapes, collection of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, 2025.6.1

05/21/2025

For Pride 2025, we invite art, culture, noise, and mark-makers to activate the Museum for [redacted], a month-long series of programming. [redacted] takes its name from the act of obscuring, in response to histories of LGBTQIA+ artists confronting and challenging censorship and erasure, and counter strategies found in DIY methods and spaces.

[redacted] kicks off Saturday June 7 with a Street Party outside the Museum from 2-6pm! For this open-air party, current solo exhibition artist Young Joon Kwak () joins Marvin Astorga () in their band Xina Xurner (), mashing genres to expand ideas about q***r and trans bodies. Q***r Nightlife Community Center invites DJs Bruno () and Sister Zo () to keep you moving, and Secret Riso () will be screenprinting historic protest posters and artworks from our collection directly onto t-shirts and tote bags you bring from home. LLMA team member and artist Jo Norris-Gaither will also lead a cyanotype workshop—bring found, translucent objects to harness the sun’s power and make your own customized prints.

🔗 Learn more about our upcoming programs at the link in our bio!
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Photo by Christopher Richmond

05/17/2025

LLMA is closed May 17th and May 18th. Please visit us on Wednesday, May 21st!

05/16/2025

Many works have recently joined our collection of more that 30,000 objects, like this sculpture “To Refuse Looking Away from our Trans-Temporal Bodies (Charlie)” by Young Joon Kwak (), currently on view in their solo show RESISTERHOOD.

Modeled on Kwak’s friend and studio assistant Charlie, the sculpture has two parts: its convex side portrays Charlie’s post-top-surgery chest; its concave side depicts his chest pre-operation, hugged by a binder and punctured with two handprints. “To Refuse Looking Away” commits Charlie’s chest to bronze sculpture, portraying it as something to be looked at and proud of. At the same time, it avoids valorizing Charlie’s postoperative chest as more “real” or “him,” recognizing his former embodiment and symbolizing the agency we have in molding our own image.

This work was acquired with generous support from the Henry Luce Foundation (), in honor of American Art Program Director Teresa A. Carbone. “Under Terry Carbone’s leadership, the Luce Foundation’s American Art Program has sought to amplify artistic voices and perspectives that have been too long ignored. The Foundation has honored Terry’s work with a grant to the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art—an institution close to Terry’s heart that is dedicated to that same mission. We are thrilled that the Museum has acquired this spectacular work by Young Joon Kwak which will serve as a testament to our deep respect and affection for Terry Carbone.”
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, “To Refuse Looking Away from our Trans-Temporal Bodies (Charlie)” (2025), bronze, wax pigment, steel base, collection of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, 2025.20.1a-b

05/05/2025

Thursday, May 15 at 6:30 pm, current LLMA Fellows join art historian Jeannine Tang to discuss their art practices.

Fellows Ogemdi Ude (), Kütral Vargas Huaiquimilla (), Miller Robinson (), Dan Paz (), Nyala Moon (), and Ciwas Tahos (Anchi Lin) (.ciwas) will speak about the how and why of their art-making, sharing their inspirations and the themes they explore in their work. Afterward, stick around for drinks and music.

Started in 2017, the LLMA Fellowship is a program that centers intergenerational LGBTQIA+ artists of color through professional and critical development.

🔗 Register at the link in our bio!
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, Untitled (2022), 15 min, courtesy of the artist

, Mallmapu/Pangui, (2022), 8 hr, courtesy of the artist

, Vial No. 3 (2023), 12 in x 46 in x 5 in, courtesy of the artist

, Supermax Food Tray, Tough, insulated, will not retain water, long-lasting to save replacement costs (lids sold separately), $214, Cortech (2022), 14 in x 9 in x 1.5 in, courtesy of the artist

, Dilating For Maximum Results (2023), ‪1,920 in x 1,080‬ in, courtesy of the artist

, Pswagi Temahahoi (2022), courtesy of the artist

04/30/2025

Revisiting this collection photo “Gloria and Charmaine” by JEB (Joan E. Biren) (), whose performance The D**e Show is headed to ! Performed at LLMA in 2023, The D**e Show consists of a slideshow of photographs by le***an photographers and of le***an subjects, accompanied by JEB’s unique, personal, and comedic insights.

This photo, featured in our collection alongside a digitized version of The D**e Show, is a glimpse into JEB’s longstanding practice with images of le***an community, life, and love.
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(Joan E. Biren), “Gloria and Charmaine” (1979/2016), Digital silver halide C-type print, 12 x 16 in, 2016.32.1, museum purchase.

04/25/2025

Join us on Wednesday, May 7, to celebrate the launch of the long-awaited first career survey from photographer Amos Badertscher.

‘Amos Badertscher Images and Stories’, published by , is a landmark introduction to a figure who is now finally receiving his due as a major twentieth-century portraitist and chronicler of q***r subculture.

In honor of this momentous occasion, we will hold a panel discussion with Beth Saunders (, ), Brian Clamp (), and Hunter O’Hanian (), moderated by Judy Giera, Associate Director of Collections at LLMA on the continued significance of his work in the development of q***r art and aesthetics.

🔗 Register for this free event at the link in bio.
-  , “Rick D. Wilson - Mistress Q + Bebe” (1993), silver gelatin print, 10 x 8 in, collection of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, 2011.6.53

04/18/2025

As we head into the weekend, we’re reminiscing on last week’s program with The Generations Project ()! Last Thursday, we convened at the Museum among artworks from our newest group show, ficciones patogenas. The evening was full of intergenerational LGBTQIA+ Latinx storytelling, music, history, and love.

Thank you to The Generations Project for collaborating with us once again and for all the participants and attendees. Here are some photos from the night, and please visit the link in our bio to learn about more upcoming programs at LLMA!
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Photos by Daniel Wang ()

04/10/2025

Today’s is a silkscreen by Frank Moore, whose surrealist drawings, paintings, and prints embed dreamlike settings with politically and culturally urgent signs related to AIDS, biology, and the environment. Both Moore and his partner, Robert Fulps, would die from AIDS eleven years apart. In the 90s, After Fulps’s death, Moore became a strident AIDS activist. He was a founding members of Visual AIDS (), and his work openly critiqued the medical industry’s profiteering, discriminatory response to the pandemic.

Many of Moore’s works use appropriated scientific diagrams to explore the social dimensions of biological research and care. These diagrams depict the HIV replication cycle or the biological elements and processes relevant to it. To prepare the diagrams for a drawing or painting, Moore would create collages out of paper cut-outs of these illustrations. Often forming the diagrams into humanoid stick figures, Moore would then trace these characters into larger compositions. These cyborg-like illustrations visualize the power of our political, scientific, and medical systems to organize and restrict biological life. AIDS activists—including Moore—endlessly called attention to this biopolitical power and the deliberateness with which our governing systems allowed them to die.
-  , “Untitled Study” (c. 1991), silkscreen on black matte board, 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 in, gift of Gesso Foundation.

04/02/2025

Today’s , a 1993 photo by Peg Harrigan, has a title that says it all: “Kip Tiernan, Standing on the Right, Founder of Boston’s First Women’s Homeless Shelter, Rosie’s Place, with Dany and Sara Seated.”

Peg Harrigan’s photos of the Provincetown le***an community provide an intimate history of the town in the 1990s. Provincetown, or Ptown, is one of q***r history’s most important sites, having served as a destination and refuge for the community since the early 1900s. Harrigan’s photographs celebrate the town’s open q***rness and the lifestyles of its artists, musicians, writers, and activists. The notes in the margins of many of her shots reveal the care with which she documented her community and home.

Kip Tiernan, fondly documented in the above photo, founded Rosie’s Place in 1974, the first women’s shelter in the United States. She started Rosie’s Place after reading about homeless women disguising themselves as men to get into shelters, and recognized the economic connection between gender discrimination and poverty. Tiernan additionally founded or helped found many other social welfare programs. Nevertheless, she recognized the need for deeper, structural change, proclaiming: “Never forget that charity is scraps from the table and justice is a seat at the table.”

Learn more about our collection at the 🔗 in our bio!
-  , “Kip Tiernan, Standing on the Right, Founder of Boston’s First Women’s Homeless Shelter, Rosie’s Place, with Dany and Sara Seated” (1993), silver gelatin print, 11 x 14 in gift of the artist.

04/01/2025

Thursday, April 10, from 6:30 - 8:30 pm, LLMA and The Generations Project (), an organization collecting LGBTQIA+ oral histories, present a collection of stories from a group of Latinx storytellers of all ages and identities, working across all art forms.

Register at the 🔗 in our bio!

El jueves 10 de abril de 18:30 - 20:30, LLMA se une con The Generations Project (), una organización que recopila historias orales LGBTQIA+, para presentar un espectáculo con narradores latinxs de todas las edades e identidades, que trabajan en todas las formas de arte.

Registracion a traves del 🔗 en nuestra bio!

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