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"There’s a difference between surviving and living and I’m just getting to living." Carlos Gutierrez-Solana, Artist Member
Sep 10, 2026
Announcement
Office closed 8/28-9/18
The Visual AIDS office will be closed from 8/28-9/18. → Read MoreSep 10, 2026
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Visual AIDS is hiring a Development Director
Visual AIDS seeks a Development Director to lead all aspects of fundraising and development, including institutional and individual giving, benefit events, and board engagement. → Read MoreSep 9, 2026
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The Shape of Community: Michael Tidmus's HyperCard Projects and the Early AIDS Crisis
Visual AIDS Research Fellow Helena Shaskevich examines how artist Michael Tidmus experimented with early digital media during the AIDS crisis, focusing on the pioneering HyperCard project The AIDS Stack (1987). Shaskevich considers how Tidmus used emerging computer networks to circulate information and imagine new forms of community, connection, and care. → Read MoreAug 27, 2026
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‘Art, Visual Culture & HIV/AIDS: Local, Regional & Transnational Perspectives’ Conference: A Portfolio
Guest editor Theo Gordon presents a portfolio of writings from the ‘Art, Visual Culture & HIV/AIDS: Local, Regional and Transnational Perspectives’ in the History of Art Department at the University of York that featured artists, curators, academics, graphic designers, activists, writers and others with long-term investments in these issues working in diverse international contexts. → Read MoreEvents Calendar
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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
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