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David Wojnarowicz Art

American, 1954-1992

David Wojnarowicz was an author, poet, photographer, musician, filmmaker and painter whose work as an AIDS activist influenced his visionary and revolutionary art. Personal experiences of disenfranchisement and the stories of people he met living on the margins of society informed the narratives of his work, with identity, sexuality and a bristling against political structures all contributing to its visceral edge. Wojnarowicz unapologetically channeled his anger at the injustices exacted on minorities and alternative lifestyles through repressive governments and financial systems into his paintings, prints, collages and photography.

Wojnarowicz was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, in 1954. He had a tumultuous childhood, dropping out of high school and living on the streets by the time he was 16. He spent much of his youth hitchhiking, spending time in San Francisco and then Paris.

Wojnarowicz moved to New York’s East Village in 1978, where he began exhibiting his art, which he frequently made from found materials. He became a central figure in the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s, refusing to censor his work, which often forthrightly reflected his queer sexuality and his fury at the conservative establishment. Particularly after the death of his lover Peter Hujar in 1987, he concentrated on the government’s political inaction during the AIDS crisis. As he wrote in his 1991 memoir, Close to the Knives, “To make the private into something public is an action that has terrific repercussions.”

Wojnarowicz died in 1992 from complications due to AIDS. His art is in major collections around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Tate Modern and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, which has championed LGBTQ+ artists such as Wojnarowicz for decades. In 2018, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York held a retrospective of his work. 

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Artist: David Wojnarowicz
Untitled (USA)

Untitled (USA)

By David Wojnarowicz

Located in New York, NY

Untitled (USA), (1989) by artist David Wojnarowicz, featured in "The Queer Show, Part I" at Hal Bromm Gallery

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1980s David Wojnarowicz Art

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Mixed Media

Untitled (For Act Up), graphic, contemporary, political
Untitled (For Act Up), graphic, contemporary, political

Untitled (For Act Up), graphic, contemporary, political

By David Wojnarowicz

Located in New York, NY

Two signed and dated colored screen-prints on woven paper political analogy with a motif of the United States as a target. The overlayed text rails against the lack of response to th...

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1990s Contemporary David Wojnarowicz Art

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Untitled (Arthur Rimbaud in Paris)
Untitled (Arthur Rimbaud in Paris)

Untitled (Arthur Rimbaud in Paris)

By David Wojnarowicz

Located in New York, NY

David Wojnarowicz Untitled (Arthur Rimbaud in Paris) 1980/2023 Estate stamped, verso Archival pigment print (Edition of 100) 6.16 x 4.125 inches, image 10 x 8 inches, sheet Con...

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2010s Contemporary David Wojnarowicz Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Untitled (Buffaloes), Black and White Photograph by David Wojnarowicz

Untitled (Buffaloes), Black and White Photograph by David Wojnarowicz

By David Wojnarowicz

Located in New York, NY

Untitled (Buffaloes), Photograph by David Wojnarowicz 1988/1994 Estate stamp in black ink, vesro Also initialed “TWR” and numbered in black ink, vesro Platinum print (Edition of 10...

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1980s Contemporary David Wojnarowicz Art

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Falling Man and Statue of Liberty

Falling Man and Statue of Liberty

By David Wojnarowicz

Located in New York, NY

Collaboration between David Wojnarowicz and Jane Bauman Contact gallery for price. This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.

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1980s Street Art David Wojnarowicz Art

Materials

Paper, Spray Paint

Trial Run of "Burning House"

Trial Run of "Burning House"

By David Wojnarowicz

Located in New York, NY

Spray paint on paper Contact gallery for price This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.

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1980s Contemporary David Wojnarowicz Art

Materials

Paper, Spray Paint

Rimbaud in New York
Rimbaud in New York

Rimbaud in New York

By David Wojnarowicz

Located in New York, NY

Gelatin silver print (Edition of 6) Estate stamped in black ink, verso Also initialed "TWR" and numbered in pencil, verso This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York...

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1970s Other Art Style David Wojnarowicz Art

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Silver Gelatin

Untitled (Between C & D)

Untitled (Between C & D)

By David Wojnarowicz

Located in New York, NY

In this offset poster, printed in collaboration with the Lower East Side literary magazine, "Between C & D," David Wojnarowicz confronts and denounces violence against members of the LGBT community. Cynthia Carr discusses this poster in her biography, "Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz." She relates the episode of when Wojnarowicz became estranged from collaborator Marion Scemama during the production of this piece and inked out her name on the copies of the poster in his possession. This is a copy from his estate. Between C & D (1983–1990) was a Lower East Side quarterly literary magazine edited by Joel Rose and Carherine Texier. Though a geographical reference to the blocks between Avenue C and Avenue D in New York City's East Village neighborhood, “Between C & D” has also been suggested to mean “between coke and dope,” giving an indication of the publication's transgressive content and ethos. The magazine's actual tagline was “Sex. Drugs. Danger. Violence. Computers.” It was printed on fanfold computer paper, sold in a plastic bag, and featured original artwork on each binding. Contributors included Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper, Gary Indiana, Tama Janowitz...

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1980s Contemporary David Wojnarowicz Art

Materials

Offset

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