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This is a list of notable visual artists who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or otherwise non-heterosexual. This list covers artists known for the creation of visual art such as drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs, installations, performance works and video works. The entries are in alphabetical order by surname.
Le Sommeil (translated in English variously as The Sleepers and Sleep) is an erotic [1] oil painting on canvas by French artist Gustave Courbet [2] created in 1866. [3] The painting, which depicts a lesbian couple, is also known as The Two Friends (Les Deux Amies) and Indolence and Lust (Paresse et Luxure).
Queer art, also known as LGBT+ art or queer aesthetics, broadly refers to modern and contemporary visual art practices that draw on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and various non-heterosexual, non-cisgender imagery and issues.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec created paintings of many of the lesbians he met, some of whom frequented or worked at the famed Moulin Rouge. [ 119 ] [ 120 ] The 18th-century lesbian secret society named "Sect of Anandrynes" included peoples like; Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe , Yolande de Polastron , Mlle Raucourt , Sophie ...
In 2008, the One Institute founded an off-site exhibition space in West Hollywood, California called the ONE Archives Gallery & Museum (later renamed simply the ONE Gallery) dedicated to presenting temporary exhibitions on LGBTQ art and history. The gallery is located in a city-owned building that also houses the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives.
Artist "is a descriptive term applied to a person who engages in an activity deemed to be an art....activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, new media, photography, and music—people who use imagination, talent, or skill to create works that may be judged to have an aesthetic value."
The Lesbian Herstory Archives, the home of an LGBTQ history trove in Brooklyn, New York, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. A lesbian archive inside a Brooklyn brownstone has documented decades ...
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