Doors at 6:00pm · Conversation at 6:30pm
Queer art has never been only about who you love. Join London curator Gemma Rolls-Bentley for Queer Art, a vivid, accessible survey of modern and contemporary LGBTQ+ art from around the world, from Keith Haring and Catherine Opie to Bhupen Khakhar and Xiyadie. She'll talk about the hidden histories, resilience, and radical imagination behind a century of queer art.

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how to attend

This event is free and open to everyone. Please RSVP so we can plan for seating.  Buy a copy of Queer Art with your ticket to get a reserved seat and pick up your book at the event. Gemma will sign books after the conversation.

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about the book

Part of Thames & Hudson's Art Essentials series, Queer Art moves beyond narrow readings that tie queerness to overt desire or fixed identity. It opens with how resilience has shaped queer expression, then travels through selfhood, love, history, and futurism, uncovering covert histories and imagining futures where art reshapes social norms. Paperback, 176 pages, 87 color illustrations. Co-written with Mollie E. Barnes.

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about the author

Gemma Rolls-Bentley is a writer and curator. She has curated internationally, including at ICA London, the Alice Austen House in New York, and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York. She has taught at the Royal College of Art and Central Saint Martins in London. She is also the author of Queer Art: From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces Between.

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