Sunil Gupta | Queer Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art | Lehman College Art Gallery

Hales is excited to announce the inclusion of Sunil Gupta in Queer Love:
Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art at the Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, through 23 April 2023. 

 

Over a career spanning more than four decades, Gupta has maintained a visionary approach to photography, producing bodies of work that are pioneering in their social and political commentary. The artist's diasporic experience of multiple cultures informs a practice dedicated to themes of race, migration and queer identity - his own lived experience a point of departure for photographic projects, born from a desire to see himself and others like him represented in art history.

 

In 1976, the first set of photographs Gupta made as a practicing artist were taken around Christopher Street in Manhattan, using the camera as a tool for open expression. The series reflects the openness of the gay liberation movement, as well as his own "coming out" as an artist. More than a nostalgic time capsule, the photographs reveal a community that shaped Gupta as a person and cemented his lifelong dedication to portraying people who have been denied a space to be themselves.

 

Sunil Gupta

Lehman College Art Gallery

250 Bedford Park Blvd

West Bronx

NY 10468