Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, USA
The exhibition Queer Constellations: Photographs from the Aronowitz Family Collection brings together major photographs by and about queer artists. The exhibition celebrates a gift of 50 photographs to the Columbus Museum of Art from the Columbus-based Aronowitz Family and expands beyond it with an additional 100 works from their collection. This selection reflects their advocacy for the medium and queer representation within it.
With photographs range from the early 20th century to the present. Queer Constellations considers how the medium has been used to portray queer life, identity, and sexuality in the United States through the lens of the experience of the makers. It features works by renowned photographers including Peter Hujar, Robert Mapplethorpe, Catherine Opie, and Wolfgang Tillmans. The exhibition borrows its title from Andrea Geyer’s Constellation series, where the artist transforms archival images of women by enlarging and collaging them to create kaleidoscopic photographs about historical memory and visibility.