After a one-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the international art fair Art Basel is returning to Miami Beach with 253 exhibitors presenting their works in front of tens of thousands.
Those whose work will be featured in the large-scale exhibition running Thursday through Saturday at the Miami Beach Convention Center include queer painters, sculptors, and mixed media artists who use LGBTQ themes, identity, and LGBTQ themes in their artwork Highlight race.
Vaginal Davis
The paintings by Vaginal Davis at the Miami Beach Convention Center on December 2, 2021.Scott Rudd / Art Basel
Vaginal Davis, an intersex artist living in Berlin, creates art from a mix of cosmetics, beauty products and other materials. Davis’ work highlights unconventional standards of beauty as well as queer historical figures and feminist leaders, according to Adams and Ollman, a Portland, Oregon gallery that represents their work. Art Basel describes Davis as an “artistic trailblazer” and states that it “broke new ground with a disruptive performance aesthetic known as ‘terrorist drag’”. Several of Davis’ lesser-known paintings will be part of a group exhibition in the Art Basel Nova section.
Brendan Fernandes
Brendan Fernandes’ installation “Contract and Release” at Art Basel.Art Basel
Brendan Fernandes (he / they) is a Chicago based artist born in Nairobi, Kenya. Fernandes’ artwork focuses on race, identity and queer culture. This year they are presenting the “Contract and Release” exhibition, which is part of the Meridians section of Art Basel, which is dedicated to great works of art. The Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago presents “Contract and Release”, which examines the intersections of life, sculpture and dance. Fernandes is currently Artist-in-Residence and Assistant Professor at Northwestern University.
Sunil Gupta
Sunil Gupta’s “Lovers: Ten Years Later” photo series at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Art Basel
London based artist Sunil Gupta is exhibiting his vintage photo series “Lovers: Ten Years On”, which aims to break homophobic and stigmatizing stereotypes of LGBTQ couples. Some of the people depicted in the photos died at the height of the HIV / AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. In this series, Gupta attempted “to meet and photograph queer people in long-term relationships in an attempt to understand the recent breakup of his own,” according to the New York and London-based Hales Gallery, which represents the artist.
Ad minolitis
Pictures by Ad Minoliti (back wall) in an Art Basel group, which is shown with works by the artist Zadie Xa.Courtesy of the artist and Galería Agustina Ferreyra
Ad Minoliti from Berlin and Buenos Aires presents several recent works addressing family, alternative universes, the experiences of non-binary communities and societies that trace parentage through a mother’s ancestor. Minoliti’s works will be presented at Art Basel in a two-person exhibition entitled “Making Kin” together with the works of artist colleague Zadie Xa from Galería Agustina Ferreyra from Mexico City.
Julie Tolentino
The work of mixed media artist Julie Tolentino at Art Basel in the Miami Beach Convention Center on December 2, 2021.Scott Rudd / Art Basel
Filipino Salvadoran (she / they) artist Julie Tolentino uses a mix of visual and archival art to highlight movement, memory, gender and queer issues. Tolentino was a founding member of the radical AIDS activist group ACT UP New York and lives in Joshua Tree, California. Tolentino is represented by Commonwealth and Council, an art gallery in Los Angeles.
Ambera Wellmann
A painting by Ambera Wellmann at the Miami Beach Convention Center.Art Basel
The Canadian painter Ambera Wellmann, who lives in New York, is presenting an “immersive installation” that examines “the politics of queer space and the future”, encouraging Art Basel to rethink the future and the deep desire to design the home differently Redesigning the everyday world as an act of resistance. ”The New York Company Gallery is presenting Wellmann’s work at Art Basel.
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