InResidency by The Bureau of Queer Art is a media venture for Contemporary Queer & Allied Creatives to explore representation, identity, and themes of outsiderness in a culture of 'mall-ification'. “Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.” -Bell Hooks Apply to participate at BureauQueerArt.com
InResidency by The Bureau of Queer Art is a media venture for Contemporary Queer & Allied Creatives to explore representation, identity, and themes of outsiderness in a culture of 'mall-ification'. “Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.” -Bell Hooks Apply to participate at BureauQueerArt.com
Vicki Khuzami doesn’t tiptoe into queer art — she cartwheels in with boys, toys, humor, and a collector’s hunger that borders on mythic.
Vicki Khuzami no entra de puntitas al arte queer — entra dando volteretas, con muchachos, juguetes, humor y un hambre de coleccionar que roza lo mítico.
In this interview excerpt, she walks us through her world: tiny erotic drawings, the House of Dolores series, and her beloved cabinet of curiosities that eventually became The Octopusa — a self-portrait in eight arms grabbing every object that sparks joy, desire, or trouble.
En este fragmento de entrevista, nos lleva por su mundo: pequeños dibujos eróticos, la serie de la Casa de Dolores y su gabinete de curiosidades que terminó convirtiéndose en La Octopusa — un autorretrato de ocho brazos recolectando todo lo que enciende alegría, deseo o travesura.
Boys, eroticism, camp, romance-novel covers, gogo-boy ex-husbands… Vicki folds it all in.
Chicos, erotismo, camp, portadas de novelas románticas, ex-esposos gogo… Vicki lo mezcla todo.
And somehow it all lands exactly where queer art thrives: the sweet spot between innocence and heat.
Y de alguna manera aterriza justo donde el arte queer respira: el punto perfecto entre la inocencia y el calor.
Khuzami shows with Soho Project Space (NYC), who joined IMMORTAL this year with their signature bite.
Khuzami expone con Soho Project Space (NYC), quienes se unieron a IMMORTAL este año con su sello inconfundible.
This interview is part of our ongoing series celebrating artists weaving the queer cosmos together — from New York to CDMX and beyond.
Esta entrevista forma parte de nuestra serie que celebra a les artistas que traman el cosmos queer — de Nueva York a CDMX y más allá.
Vicki reminds us: collect what thrills you, draw what compels you, and never apologize for loving too much.
Vicki nos recuerda: colecciona lo que te emocione, dibuja lo que te obsesione y jamás pidas disculpas por amar demasiado.
Video by @xuanrios
#VickiKhuzami #TBQA #SohoProjectSpace #QueerArt #IMMORTAL #EroticDrawing #ContemporaryArt #ArtInterview #CDMX #NYCQueerArt #CampArt #CollectorCulture #Octopusa
Some artists work with memory like tension.
Algunxs artistas trabajan la memoria como tensión.
In IMMORTAL 2025, Leslie threads fiber, childhood, and survival.
En IMMORTAL 2025, Leslie entrelaza fibra, infancia y supervivencia.
Bodies stretched by thread — adaptation made visible.
Cuerpos estirados por hilos — la adaptación hecha visible.
Her three-dimensional boxes echo a childhood in Venezuela.
Sus cajas tridimensionales evocan una infancia en Venezuela.
A place full of water where nothing grows.
Un lugar lleno de agua donde nada crece.
Desert landscapes. Covered faces. Veils interrupting the world.
Paisajes desérticos. Rostros cubiertos. Velos que interrumpen el mundo.
A veil becomes a symbol of promises never kept.
El velo se vuelve símbolo de promesas incumplidas.
To live behind a veil is to move through distortion.
Vivir tras un velo es moverse dentro de una distorsión.
Leslie’s work lives in that tension — brutal, tender, unforgettable.
La obra de Leslie vive en esa tensión — brutal, tierna, inolvidable.
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¿Quieres unirte a TBQA en 2026?
Residencies, exhibitions, and TBQA’s
Representation Subscription Model are now open.
Residencias, exhibiciones y el
Modelo de Representación por Suscripción ya están abiertos.
TBQA 2026 Information Session
Sesión Informativa TBQA 2026
A full walkthrough of PASSPORT, LUCHADOR, and IMMORTAL II.
Un recorrido completo por PASSPORT, LUCHADOR e IMMORTAL II.
Date/Time: [Insert here]
Fecha/Hora: [Insertar aquí]
Zoom link in bio.
Enlace de Zoom en el bio.
Come with curiosity — this is where the next year begins.
Llega con curiosidad — aquí empieza el próximo año.
Video by @xuanrios
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Laura Ortiz Vega no solo crea arte—ella negocia entre mundos.
Laura Ortiz Vega doesn’t just make art—she negotiates between worlds.
Sus universos bordados y con cuentas son colisiones de lo ritual y lo Pop, de los ancestros y los punks callejeros, de lo sagrado y lo escandaloso.
Her beaded, stitched universes are collisions of ritual and Pop, ancestors and street punks, the sacred and the scandalous.
Desde IMMORTAL Queer Art Fair en CDMX hasta Dismantled Vol. 10 con Maryland Art Place en Baltimore, su obra derrumba el andamiaje del “arte alto” y el “arte bajo”, tejiendo la libertad de nuevo en la forma.From IMMORTAL Queer Art Fair in CDMX to
Dismantled Vol. 10 with Maryland Art Place in Baltimore, her work tears down the scaffolding of “high” and “low” art, weaving freedom back into form.
Cada cuenta, cada hilo, es diplomacia—una diplomacia rebelde.Every bead, every thread, is diplomacy—a riotous one.🎥 Extracto de entrevista de la serie continua de TBQA que conecta México y Estados Unidos a través de la producción cultural queer.🎥 Interview excerpt from TBQA’s ongoing series bridging Mexico and the U.S. through Queer cultural production.
Video @xuanrios
#LauraOrtizVega #TBQA #IMMORTAL #DismantledVol10 #MarylandArtPlace #QueerArt #LatinAmericanArt #BeadedRebellion #ArtasDiplomacy #FiberArt #Syncretic #QueerMexico #ContemporaryArt #CDMXtoBaltimore
SoHo Project Space NYC brought their signature blend of sensuality, body, and boldness to IMMORTAL — showing how art can bridge cultures, languages, and desires. Their presence reminded us that visibility is not a trend; it’s a responsibility we share across borders.
En este video, @sohoprojectspacenyc nos da la bienvenida a su exhibición en IMMORTAL, celebrando el cuerpo humano, lo erótico, lo sagrado, y el poder de crear comunidad a través del arte. Gracias por ser parte de esta historia y por ayudarnos a construir una red queer sin fronteras.
#IMMORTAL #TBQA #SoHoProjectSpaceNYC #QueerArtFair #CDMX #NYC #ArtAsRitual #QueerVisibility #EroticAsPolitical #CuerpoSagrado #GlobalQueerExchange #CommunityNotCompetition
From the heart of Mexico City, Dossier @dossier_art - sits down with The Bureau of Queer Art (TBQA) to talk about the birth of IMMORTAL, Mexico’s first Queer Art Fair.
Desde el corazón de la Ciudad de México, Dossier conversa con The Bureau of Queer Art (TBQA) sobre el nacimiento de IMMORTAL, la primera feria de arte queer en México.
Between ofrendas, bodies, and collective memory, we explore how queer art is rewriting history — not from pain, but from permanence.
Entre ofrendas, cuerpos y memorias colectivas, hablamos de cómo el arte queer está reescribiendo la historia — no desde el dolor, sino desde la permanencia.
The episode is in Spanish with English subtitles.
El episodio está en español con subtítulos en inglés.
Listen. Watch. Feel.
La inmortalidad no es un mito, es comunidad.
🎧 Now streaming on @dossier_cdmx
📍Recorded at Lisboa 46, CDMX
🎥 In collaboration with @thebureauofqueerart
#IMMORTAL #TBQA #DossierCDMX #QueerArtFair #ArteQueer #DiaDeMuertos #QueerMexico #TheBureauOfQueerArt #Lisboa46 #QueerVisibility #PodcastMexico #QueerCommunity #ArteContemporáneo
“I wanted the ofrenda to rise, to move the way glaciers move—slow, unstoppable, reshaping everything in their path. From the street to the top floor, it became a kind of queer pilgrimage.
Each piece—stone, plastic, fabric—was a record of transformation, a reminder that what we build together can shift, melt, and still carry beauty.The installation was never meant to be static. Like us, it was always in motion—an offering that keeps traveling, finding new forms, new meanings.”— Leah Cupino,
IMMORTAL Queer Art Fair 2025Leah Cupino’s ofrenda for IMMORTAL rose from the street to the sky—a living sculpture of transformation, connecting the ground we walk on to the stories we carry upward.A meditation on queer resilience, impermanence, and the quiet power of change.
#LeahCupino #ErraticGrace #IMMORTAL2025 #TBQA #TheBureauOfQueerArt #QueerEcologies #DiaDeMuertos #QueerArtLives #ArtAndClimate #Erratic
Baroque and Butchered is the cover of Vol 10: Dismantled — a delirious feast of beauty, gore, and gallows humor from Robert Rausch and Oona Nelson. Think Rembrandt colliding with John Waters in a butcher shop: chandeliers, carcasses, fat suits, and live pigs crashing history painting.
Vol 10: Dismantled will be available as a free digital download on September 1, 2025 at BureauQueerArt.com and on our Substack platform. A podcast interview with the artists drops the same day on all major platforms.
Exhibition on view at Maryland Art Place, Sept 11 – Nov 1, 2025.
Also online via Artsy.net.
#Vol10Dismantled #BaroqueAndButchered #QueerArt #TBQA #Artsy #MAP #QueerResistance
Cortney Mansanarez’s solo show Coloring Is... captures queer joy, movement, and vulnerability in bold, expressive portraits of the male form. This ongoing photo series invites us to color outside the lines—where mess, gesture, and light meet in a celebration of queer embodiment.
You can view the full exclusive online at Artsy.net, with new works added biweekly. If you're in Baltimore, don’t miss the chance to see his work in person as part of Dismantled, The Bureau of Queer Art’s Volume 10 collaboration with Maryland Art Place. Opening September 11 during the BROMO Art Walk, and on view through November 1, 2025.
Explore the show at the link in bio and listen to our full podcast conversation with the artist on the InResidency series, available on all major platforms.
#CortneyMansanarez #ColoringIs #QueerPhotography #LGBTQArt #ContemporaryPhotography #TBQA #QueerArtNow #ArtsyNet #InResidency #MaleForm #PhotographyExhibition #QueerArtist #DigitalExhibition #TBQAPresents #Dismantled #MarylandArtPlace #BromoArtWalk
In this bilingual episode of InResidency, artist Majo Martínez joins us for a moving conversation about trans identity, grief, and the role of art as both ritual and resistance. Speaking in both English and Spanish (with subtitles available on YouTube), Majo reflects on their transition, their practice as a weaver and photographer, and the visual metaphors that help them process loss, blindness, borderline identity, and becoming.
This episode builds on the feature Born Smelling a Flower, now available in English and Spanish on Substack.
Learn more about Majo’s work in our digital publication on Substack.
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A conversation on queer visibility, analog nostalgia, and surviving the algorithm—one photograph at a time.
In this episode of INresidency: Queer & Allied Creatives, photographer Michael Epps joins us from Charleston, SC, to talk about the evolution of his practice—from shooting 120mm film in New York to quietly subverting Instagram’s shadowbans. We discuss his love of black and white photography, the emotional charge of working with nude male subjects, and how soul—not tech—should guide every image. With deep reflections on memory, solitude, and resilience, Epps reminds us why queer art still matters—and why it must be seen. Part of The Pride Collections: Chosen Family series, featuring artists from all over.
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In this episode of InResidency, we sit down with Stephen Baboon—photographer, performer, and founder of Native Fruits Collective—to talk about queerness, Haiti, and the radical tenderness in his work. Baboon shares how his layered identity as a queer Haitian artist with Middle Eastern roots informs everything from his commercial collaborations to his fine art practice.
“I create in that in-between state… Identity will never be resolved. We’re complex beings.”
Together, we explore what it means to make beauty in the face of devastation, how art builds community, and why his portraits feel more like altars than images. This conversation is a love letter to cultural hybridity, chosen family, and the power of visual storytelling.
Now streaming on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeart, and all major platforms.
Read the feature article in English or Spanish with our digital magazine on the SUBstack platform https://thebureauofqueerart.substack.com
In this episode, Jorge Tejeda joins us for a moving conversation about queerness, emotion, and the power of drawing the male body with both strength and softness. We talk about his training in architecture, his influences—from Schiele to contemporary dance—and the deeply personal process behind his series Summer Blues, including the featured work Boy with a Gold Earring.
You can read the full interview now in our digital magazine—links in bio—and see Jorge’s work as part of The Pride Collection: Chosen Family, now on view at Artsy.net through August 31.
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In this powerful conversation, multi-hyphenate artist Lady Zen joins The Bureau of Queer Art to reflect on their acclaimed film What’s in a Name, a poetic and unflinching exploration of gender, identity, and self-recognition. Speaking from their home in San Miguel de Allende, they share the emotional and creative process behind transforming a penance chapel—once used to punish queerness—into a space for healing and truth.
We discuss queer photography, the politics of visibility, the myth of industry acceptance, and how Lady Zen’s transmasculine identity informs their work. With humor, vulnerability, and grit, they remind us that visibility isn’t a performance—it’s survival.
This episode is part of The Pride Collection: Chosen Family, a curated series running June 1 through August 31, 2025, that celebrates queer artists building community through creativity and care.
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Through sensuality, survival, and sharp-witted grace, David Jester paints what too many won’t even say out loud. In this powerful episode, Jester reflects on art as confession, HIV survivorship, aging in a queer body, and the brutal cost of being visible. His canvases don’t perform—they speak, reminding us what it means to be seen and still stand tall.
Recorded in conjunction with Pride NOT Permission and the 50 Postcards project, this conversation dives into the emotional core of Jester’s latest work: paintings that don’t seek resolution, but insist on truth.
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In this episode, we reflect on The Bureau of Queer Art’s first-ever Open Studio event—a gathering of current residents, alumni, exhibiting artists, and new voices. Hosted by Micheal Swank, the conversation centers on what it means to share space, exchange stories, and build a creative future across geographies. Hear reflections on the evening, updates on upcoming opportunities like IMMORTAL: Queer Art Fair and 50 Postcards – Pride NOT Permission, and a call to shape what this community looks like moving forward. Whether you're a longtime collaborator or just finding your way in, this one’s for you.
Samuel Reyes, co-founder of Playa Escandón gallery in Mexico City, joins us to talk about building a gallery rooted in disruption, care, and context. With a background in luxury branding and art education, Reyes offers sharp insight into the real workings of the art market, the myth of the “next Basquiat,” and why collectors—and artists—must think long-term. From pricing strategies to emotional connections, this episode is a masterclass in reimagining what art spaces can be.
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In this powerful new episode of The Bureau of Queer Art Podcast, Jaimes Mayhew opens up about trans ecologies, the geologic weight of queer history, and how imagining new landscapes—real or speculative—is an act of resistance. From the rocks of their childhood in Utah to their collaborative utopian mapping projects, Mayhew’s work invites us to look closer and dream bigger.
“I believe the first step toward liberation is imagining outside of the realm of what we’ve been told is possible.”
Based in Vermont, Mayhew brings decades of experience as a non-binary transmasc artist, educator, and collaborator. Their “Horizon Survey” and “A Different Horizon Atlas” projects draw on personal memory, queer theory, geology, and collective dreaming to build alternate futures. It’s speculative cartography at its most luminous.
This episode dives into the aesthetic and political layers behind their inclusion in the 50 Postcards project and their upcoming residencies at VCCA and Byrdcliffe.
Now showing exclusively on Artsy.net through July 2025: A Symphony of Resistance and Expression by Gemelxs VS, presented by The Bureau of Queer Art.
This raw, intimate solo exhibition reclaims the queer body as sacred, sensual, and unapologetically visible. Through layered oil, watercolor, and unfinished space, the twin duo explores gender, mythology, memory, and community with a fearless visual language.
These works are more than paintings—they are declarations. Alive. Incomplete. Divine.
Explore the exhibition online now at thebureauofqueerart.art
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In this week’s feature for The Bureau of Queer Art, we meet Shendra—artist, muralist, educator, TikTok disruptor, and part of the executive team for the upcoming IMMORTAL Queer Art Fair. Originally from the Italian part of Switzerland, born in Australia, and now based in Mexico City, Shendra’s work is an ever-evolving codex of queer experience and multilingual consciousness. In our conversation, we dive into her early influences, complex love stories, artistic evolution, and the photograph at the center of her contribution to Pride NOT Permission—a piece titled Wild Pig, Grilled.
This is an artist who doesn’t just speak five languages—she invents new ones through art. Read the full story and view her limited edition print now live on Artsy.
Welcome back to The Bureau of Queer Art podcast. In this special rerelease, we revisit our conversation with Australian artist Jessica Ledwich, recorded during her transformative residency at Casa Lu in Mexico City. Known for her provocative and visually striking work, Jessica took a bold leap from the controlled world of fashion photography into the chaotic beauty of CDMX’s street food culture.
This episode explores how the sensory overload of Mexico’s vibrant markets, layered with her own history of crafting intimate, erotic compositions, led to a new body of work—playful, political, and pulsing with life. We discuss desire, consumption, and the riotous textures that defined her street banner series.
Whether you’re discovering her work for the first time or revisiting it with fresh eyes, this episode offers an intimate look at an artist unafraid to challenge boundaries and embrace transformation.