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Visual AIDS, 526 W 26th Street #309, New York, NY (2026)

03/05/2026

RESCHEDULED! Join Visual AIDS on Sunday March 29 (2pm) for a panel discussion with David Hirsh, Penny Arcade and Agosto Machado focused on the David Hirsh Tapes Collection at Visual AIDS.

The event will feature clips from interviews with Steve Lott, Martin Wong, and Frank Moore.

Between 1990 and 1995, the journalist David Hirsh recorded more than 600 tapes of interviews and oral histories with over 300 artists who were active in the q***r arts scene of downtown New York. Hirsh’s relentless preservation effort through the tapes, as well as the Visual AIDS Archive he co-founded in 1994 with artist Frank Moore (1946-2013), was a race against time during the most fatal years of the AIDS crisis in the United States. In 2025, Hirsh donated his entire tape collection to Visual AIDS, who has recently secured a grant to digitize and make the tapes available to the public.

The panel is introduced by Kyle Croft and Jacs Rodriguez of Visual AIDS, and moderated by art historian Marcelo Gabriel Yáñez

Please RSVP for this free event.

Image: Sheyla Baykal, “Penny Arcade, David Hirsh, and Frank Moore, among others, at the Day With(out) Art Action at the Met”, 1994. Crop from gelatin silver print contact sheet, 8.5 x 11”. Courtesy Sheyla Baykal Archive and Soft Network.

02/03/2026

Visual AIDS is excited to announce Alex Lenczycki, Chava Maeve Krivchenia, Claudia Mattos, Diogene Artiles, and Helena Shaskevich as our 2025–26 Research Fellows.

Claudia Mattos’s research proposes the first comprehensive art historical study of Craig Coleman’s (1961-1994) Miami-era practice, situating Coleman’s fusion of visual art, writing, and performance within the city’s q***r cultural history and the legacy of AIDS-era expression in South Florida.

Chava Maeve Krivchenia will sort through Garland Eliason-French’s (1942-1996) correspondence, personal journals, photographs, art documentation, and ephemera, and plans to map the artist’s creative influences, with a particular focus on her time spent in Chicago and the Midwest.

Alex Lenczycki will seek to illuminate the life and work of Gin Louie (1947-1994), a pivotal figure and former director of the Lower East Side Print Shop in the 1980s, with particular interest in his artistic transition to autobiographical assemblage following his AIDS diagnosis.

Helena Shaskevich will research artist Michael Tidmus’s (1951-2012) HyperCard projects with a specific focus on his 1987 The AIDS Stack. Made just prior to the widespread use of the world wide web, the work is an early example of AIDS related computer activism.

Diogene Artiles will look at the work of Miguel Ferrando (1957-1996), Dominican artist active in New York City’s downtown art scene during the 1980s and 1990s. Diogene is interested in Ferrando’s use of religious iconography, Dominican national symbols, and his artistic community and inspirations in New York City. .wav

Stay tuned — writing commissioned through the fellowship will be published on the Visual AIDS Journal in Fall 2026.

01/26/2026

It’s time for another year of , the annual project that distributes hundreds of heartfelt valentines to women across the world living with HIV.

This year, Visual AIDS collaborated with two artist members, J. Hartz and Alexander Robateau, to create special-edition valentines. These valentines, along with letters of love from our community, will be mailed to women all over the world in time for February 14.

Are you interested in writing caring letters to a woman/women living with HIV? As women sign up to receive a valentine, they will be asked to share one or two interests/hobbies so that a personalized letter can be written for them. Come to our letter-writing party to help pen individualized letters to the 600+ recipients. Join us on January 31 at 2pm on the 3rd floor of No RSVP is required and the museum is free.

Are you a woman or femme living with HIV who would like to receive a valentine and letter? Click the link in our bio to sign up to receive a card.

More about the project:

Visual AIDS is proud to partner with ongoing collaborator MoMA PS1 for our annual project LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN. We are also proud to partner with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, who printed the edition of Alexander Robateau’s valentines.

LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN is an international series of events that uses Valentine’s Day as a backdrop, creating a platform for individuals and communities to engage in public and private acts of love and caring for women living with HIV. LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN is an ongoing project established by Visual AIDS artist member in 2013.

After the event, the valentines will be mailed around the world to HIV-positive women in time for Valentine’s Day. Women living with HIV often experience isolation and stigma and face specific challenges around relationships, motherhood, and healthcare. Since 2015, the project has distributed over 4,000 cards in order to fight stigma, create community, and empower women living with HIV.

01/25/2026

Our buy one, get one sale is now live at postcards.visualaids.org!

Discount automatically applied at checkout for every two items in your cart (buying two? Charged for one! Buying six? Charged for 3… you get it).

Check out available artwork in the sale, and help support the Visual AIDS Archive, exhibitions, women’s specific programs, publications, film commissions, and direct grants to artists living with HIV. Every artwork sold benefits our work at Visual AIDS during a ramping crisis for HIV/AIDS and arts funding.

Spread the word and happy postcarding!

01/25/2026

We’ve sold over 900 pieces so far, and our online sale is still going! There are over 500 beautiful artworks available for just $100. Take a look at the gems you may have missed your first go at postcards.visualaids.org

Please note there will be no in-person gallery hours Sunday, January 25 so the remainder of the sale will be fully online for the next week. All purchases will be shipped by Thurs, Feb 5 (no pick-ups).

Stay safe and warm today ❄️ Happy Postcarding

01/24/2026

Our sale is now LIVE at postcards.visualaids.org! Shop 1566 artworks for just $100!

In-person viewing and pick up today only, Jan 24 at Berry Campbell (524 w 26th) from 12-5pm ONLY

There will be no in person hours on Sunday, Jan 25 but the sale will continue online!

Happy shopping!

01/15/2026

Join Visual AIDS on Sunday Jan 25 (1-2:30pm) for an audio-visual panel discussion with David Hirsh, Penny Arcade , and Agosto Machado focused on the David Hirsh Tapes Collection at Visual AIDS. The event will feature clips from interviews with Steve Lott, Martin Wong, and Frank Moore.

Between 1990 and 1995, the journalist David Hirsh recorded hundreds of hours of interviews and oral histories, spread over nearly six hundred tapes, with over three hundred artists who were active in the q***r downtown New York arts scene. Hirsh’s relentless preservation effort through the tapes, as well as the Visual AIDS Archive he co-founded in 1994 with artist Frank Moore (1946-2013), was a race against time during the most fatal years of the AIDS crisis in the United States. In 2025, Hirsh donated his entire tape collection to Visual AIDS, who has recently secured a grant to digitize and make the tapes available to the public.

The panel is introduced by Kyle Croft, executive director of Visual AIDS, and moderated by art historian Marcelo Gabriel Yáñez . It is presented as part of the symposium Locating Downtown, organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art in partnership with New York University Special Collections.

Please RSVP for this free event.

Image: Sheyla Baykal, “Penny Arcade, David Hirsh, and Frank Moore, among others, at the Day With(out) Art Action at the Met”, 1994. Crop from gelatin silver print contact sheet, 8.5 x 11”. Courtesy Sheyla Baykal Archive and Soft Network.

01/09/2026

Postcards from the Edge is almost here! Collector’s Preview and Online Preview tickets are now on sale. Be among the first to see the 1560+ original artworks that will go onsale starting at 10am EST on Saturday, January 24 only at postcards.visualaids.org.

🔴 As ramping cuts to HIV/AIDS funding, threats to free speech, and uncertainty for so many lingers, we look forward to gathering together as a global community to raise vital funds for our work at Visual AIDS.

🔴 Our full 2026 contributing artist list is now live on the Postcards website. Check it out!

🔴 Visit the link in our bio for more info on key dates, preview tickets, and our full artist list.

Note: contributing artists will receive an email invitation to the in-person and online preview the week of 1/12 including information on guests. No need to purchase tickets

Photo: George Sierzputowski

01/08/2026

This weekend is your last chance to see Ministry: Reverend Joyce McDonald at !

Join us on Saturday 3–5PM for a closing reception with Reverend Joyce McDonald and curator Kyle Croft. Guests will enjoy art, music, and light refreshments. The exhibition is on view through Sunday January 11.

Ministry: Reverend Joyce McDonald is the first museum exhibition devoted to the artist’s work, bringing together her early sculptures in air-dry clay and found materials with recent glazed ceramics.

Inspired by McDonald’s history of repurposing stairs and furniture into display surfaces, her sculptures are presented on stepped pedestals designed by Le Xie (.nyc). Archival materials provide a nuance a nuanced portrait of McDonald’s biography, tracing her upbringing in Brooklyn’s Farragut houses as well as her decades of exhibiting art as an artist member of Visual AIDS.

Installation views of Ministry: Reverend Joyce McDonald at The Bronx Museum. Photos by Argenis Apolinario

12/22/2025

Postcards from the Edge, Visual AIDS’s beloved fundraiser and exhibition, returns for its 28th year! Our 2026 edition features over 1500 original, postcard works from blue chip, emerging, and new artists from around the globe. All sales go directly to our work at Visual AIDS.

In this frightening moment for work around HIV, AIDS, and art, proceeds raised from Postcards from the Edge are more crucial than ever. Join us!

🔴Opening preview:
Friday, January 23
Collector Preview Tickets will go on sale in early January. Contributing artists will receive information about their free artist ticket in early January as well.

Full artist list plus more information on times, tickets, and guidelines for artist guests forthcoming.

🔴Online sale begins:
Saturday, January 24
10am EST only at postcards.visualaids.org
Our sale is fully online once again and all postcards are just $100 with free domestic shipping. Guidelines for shopping will be published in early 2026.

Available artworks will be on view at our wonderful host gallery (524 W 26th St) on Saturday, January 24 and Sunday, January 25 during limited gallery hours.

Questions? Email postcards@visualaids.org.

The Visual AIDS offices will be closed 12/24-1/5. Happy New Year!

12/04/2025

Impersonating the dead can be risky work. This year, ‘Peter Hujar’s Day’ by and ‘Can I Be Frank?’ by each used reenactment to animate artists lost to AIDS.

On the Visual AIDS Journal, Sachs and Bassichis join Kyle Croft discuss reenactment, creative license, and the complicated desires that shape how we remember and remake the past.

Images:
- Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall in Peter Hujar’s Day, directed by Ira Sachs. Courtesy of
- Morgan Bassichis in Can I Be Frank? Photo: Emilio Madrid

12/01/2025

Visual AIDS fosters culture that understands HIV as part of human experience, because we all live in a world shaped by HIV and AIDS. More than 40 million people are living with HIV today, and 44 million more have been lost to the pandemic.

On World AIDS Day, we are centering the voices of people who use drugs. Shame and stigma have created a culture of silence that removes possibilities from people’s lives and reinforces a single narrative about drug use and HIV.

Today we are releasing Meet Us Where We’re At, six new videos that break the silence around HIV and drug use. When we forefront the voices of people who use drugs in culture, we uncover new visions of how drugs can exist inside of a person’s life. These honest conversations about drugs deepen our understanding of risk and illuminate what possibilities exist for pleasure, relationships, care, and creativity.

Meet Us Where We’re At is available to stream online at video.visualaids.org, and is screening at more than 100 museums, universities, and non-profit spaces around the world starting today. Head to the link in our bio to start watching. ❤️

[images: Gustavo Vinagre and Vinicius Couto, chempassion., 2025. Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Meet Us Where We’re At.]

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