David Wojnarowicz

1954 — 1992

American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, and AIDS activist (1954-1992)

David Michael Wojnarowicz was an American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, songwriter/recording artist, and AIDS activist prominent in the East Village art scene. He incorporated personal narratives influenced by his struggle with AIDS as well as his political activism in his art until his death from the disease in 1992.

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Works

1980s

Untitled (Hujar Dead)

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1983

Untitled

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1983

William Morales, Patron of Prison Breaks

David Wojnarowicz Metropolitan Museum of Art
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1986

Queer Basher/Icarus Falling

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1986

The Death of American Spirituality

David Wojnarowicz San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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1987

Das Reingold: New York Schism

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1987

Earth

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1987

Fire

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1987

When You The Invisible Cowboy

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1988

Fear of Monkeys/Evolution

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