Visual AIDS
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The Ross Laycock Initiative for the Exploration of Science, Art, AIDS
"My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions." Glenn Ligon, Artist
"Until something better comes along": William Cullum and Art After Incarceration
William Trlak reflects on the life and work of William Cullum (1958–2020), an artist who was among the first ten to join the Visual AIDS Archive. Trlak traces how questions of space, confinement, and survival shaped the artist's practice. → Read MoreAnnouncing 'seeds in a dying colony' for Day With(out) Art 2026
A program of four newly commissioned videos that move through the afterlives of colonialism and the ongoing HIV epidemic. → Read MoreNancer LeMoins (1956–2025)
Visual AIDS mourns the loss of Nancer LeMoins (1956–2025), a beloved Artist Member and long term collaborator. → Read MoreIntroducing our 2025-2026 Research Fellows
Visual AIDS is excited to announce Alex Lenczycki, Chava Maeve Krivchenia, Claudia Mattos, Diogene Artiles, and Helena Shaskevich as our 2025 Research Fellows. → Read MoreEvents Calendar
Founded in 1988, Visual AIDS is the only arts organization fully committed to raising AIDS awareness and creating dialogue around HIV issues today, by producing and presenting visual art projects, exhibitions, public forums and publications - while assisting artists living with HIV/AIDS. We are committed to preserving and honoring the work of artists with HIV/AIDS and the artistic contributions of the AIDS movement.
Staff
Kyle Croft
Executive Director
Shawn Escarciga
Development Director
Elena Guzman
Communications Associate
Blake Paskal
Programs Director
Jacs Rodriguez
Community Archivist
Board of Directors
Marguerite Van Cook, President
Carlos Gutierrez-Solana, Vice President
Mark Quigley, Treasurer
Katherine Cheairs, Secretary
Antonio Sergio Bessa
Nayland Blake
Jim Hodges
Lynn Maliszewski
Ricardo Montez