This graffiti sensibility wound itself into his later artworks which incorporated paint, text, images and mental map collages that questioned oppressive social structures through a hip-hop remix of words and symbols. The next year, he was spray painting messages around New York City’s Lower East Sideas as his artistic alter-ego SAMO (as in “same old shit”). Leyendecker, who we’ve mentioned before.īasquiat dropped out of school in 1975. In the interest of education, we’ve excluded some bigger name artists who have gotten plenty of press, a few of which we’ve listed above and others, like illustrator J.C.
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Some keep their sexual identities private rather than risk pigeonholing themselves as “a gay artist.” Other artists, like Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg (who had a six-year relationship together), have been posthumously closeted by galleries - and even their own dealers - in hopes of attracting potential big buyers. Even in the supposedly liberal art world, homophobia still rears its ugly head.Īnd while many people consider artists like Michelangelo and Caravaggio to be gay, homosexuality didn’t exist as a distinct sexual identity during their lifetimes, making us hesitant to label them as such even though they both undoubtedly desired men. So we stuck with painters as a way to narrow our scope.īut even with that narrowed scope, it can be tough to identify gay painters and artists. The world of visual art is vast, featuring videographers, photographers, installation artists and sculptors. Slimming the list down to just 15 gay painters wasn’t easy.