Contemporary Queer: A Love Letter

Contemporary Queer: A Love Letter highlights how artists explore and express queer identities through themes of intersectionality and visibility within and beyond the LGBTQIA2S+ community. This exhibition is a platform for art that challenges binaries, disrupts norms, and affirms the vibrancy of queer existence today. Gallery 263 invites U.S.-based artists of all backgrounds to submit work that embraces queer experiences. We welcome diverse media that engage with gender, sexuality, community, and resistance. Artists who identify as LGBTQIA2S+ and allies engaging thoughtfully with queer narratives are encouraged to apply. Queer art, in the context of this exhibition, embraces fluidity and defies categorization. It challenges binaries, disrupts norms, and celebrates the diversity of gender, sexuality, and identity. More than an exploration of difference, it is an assertion of presence, resilience, and interconnected experiences. Artists do not have to identify as queer to submit but should engage meaningfully with queer perspectives. This exhibition is a love letter to the community in these tumultuous times, and affirms the vibrancy and beauty of queer existence today.