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David Wojnarowicz

David was born in Red Bank, New Jersey in 1954 and later lived with his mother in New York City, where he attended the High School of Performing Arts for a brief period. A victim of childhood abuse, he lived for a time during his teenage years as a street hustler; he graduated from the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan. 

He left New York, later returning in 1970's, where he quickly emerged as one of the most prominent and prolific of the avant-garde movement incorporating mixed media, film, graffiti and street art; his first recognition came from stencils of houses afire that appeared on the exposed sides and buildings in the East Village. He made super-8 films, such as Heroin, began a photographic series of Arthur Rimbaud, did stencil work, played in a band called 3 Teens Kill 4, and exhibited his work in well known East Village galleries. Wojnarowicz was also connected to other prolific artists such as his lover, Hujar, until Hujar's death of AIDS in 1987. Hujar's death moved Wojnarowicz's work into much more explicit activism and political content, notably around the injustices, social and legal, inherent in the response to the AIDS epidemic. Wojnarowicz died of AIDS-related illness in 1992, photographer and artist Zoe Leonard, who was a friend of Wojnarowicz, exhibited a work inspired by him, entitled Strange Fruit (For David). In 2018, he was recognized in the retrospective exhibition, “David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night:” at the Whitney Museum of American Art.


Exhibition History:

New Paintings and Totems
New Painting
Major Works
30
40: The Anniversary Exhibition
Desde New York
Honoring Stonewall
Snowjob
Color
Metamorphosis
Faces I
Faces II
1983
1985
1985
2007
2015
2018
2019
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023

Press: 


February 8, 2023‘FACES II’ subverts traditional forms of portraiture
Document Journal

December 19, 2022Art and the Human Face
Office Magazine

November 28, 2018Episode 149: Preserving Art Legacies After Loss
Open to Hope

September 2018Luis Frangella and David Wojnarowicz at Hal Bromm Gallery
The Tribeca Trib

April 2017Mark Bloch on “Exuberant 80s: An East Village Painters Circle” at Johannes Vogt Gallery
Whitehot Magazine

Now on view:

Lucio Pozzi
Cornucopia: the Bielefeld Watercolors


Through May 10, 2025
Upcoming:


May 9 - Tribeca Gallery Night
 6-8 pm
@ Hal Bromm Gallery

May 22 - The Queer Show Part II
Opening Reception 6-8 pm
@ Hal Bromm Gallery

September 19 - 50: The View From Tribeca
Opening Reception 6-8 pm
@  Hal Bromm Gallery