Doors at 6:00pm · Conversation at 6:30pm
Queer art has never been only about who you love. Join London curator Gemma Rolls-Bentley for Queer Art, a vivid, accessible survey of modern and contemporary LGBTQ+ art from around the world, from Keith Haring and Catherine Opie to Bhupen Khakhar and Xiyadie. She'll talk about the hidden histories, resilience, and radical imagination behind a century of queer art.

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how to attend

This event is free and open to everyone. Please RSVP so we can plan for seating.  Buy a copy of Queer Art with your ticket to get a reserved seat and pick up your book at the event. Gemma will sign books after the conversation.

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about the book

Part of Thames & Hudson's Art Essentials series, Queer Art moves beyond narrow readings that tie queerness to overt desire or fixed identity. It opens with how resilience has shaped queer expression, then travels through selfhood, love, history, and futurism, uncovering covert histories and imagining futures where art reshapes social norms. Paperback, 176 pages, 87 color illustrations. Co-written with Mollie E. Barnes.

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about the author

Gemma Rolls-Bentley is a writer and curator. She has curated internationally, including at ICA London, the Alice Austen House in New York, and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York. She has taught at the Royal College of Art and Central Saint Martins in London. She is also the author of Queer Art: From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces Between.

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about the conversation partner

Beth Schindler works as an artist, organizer, curator and collaborator in Austin. She has devoted the last 17 years of her life to making a space for others to feel safe in our home city. Born and raised in Austin, she works with deep community connections to create queer, trans, and BIPOC-inclusive programming to educate people about core inequities in our world. Visibility and history of queers are key aims through her work, creating visual art—primarily working in found materials, textiles, video, and photography.  As well as curating exhibitions and organizing events for community-building and support, she focuses on crafting creative and liberating experiences to connect in person, and to learn and re-imagine our history.

Beth sometimes operates under the name, Lez B In Touch or Double Virgo, which is an umbrella for projects like Power Snatch, Hickeys & HJs, Plum Crazies, Queer Party Camp, Lesbian Wedding, Lesbian Touch: Dykes You Should Know, Lesbian Mapping Project & more.   Most recently she curated Toxic Masculinity: The Old Reliable World Of David Hurles, as well as Butch Is Not A Dirty Word, an archival show of queer photographer Ester Godoy at MASS Gallery in Austin, TX. She is also the President of the non profit MASS Gallery in Austin, TX & focused on making it the gayest community art space in town.

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