Roger Brown
Born Hamilton, Alabama, 1941
Died Atlanta, Georgia, 1997,
Roger Brown was a prominent member of the Chicago Imagist group, a cohort of artists working in the late 1960s onward who embraced figurative subject matter, unconventional and often “low brow” source material, and personal biography in their artistic practice. Brown was also the only known gay member of the Imagist group and inserted his personal experiences with Chicago’s shifting sexual culture into his artistic practice, from cruising and leather culture in the 1970s to the onset of AIDS in the ‘80s and arts censorship in the ‘90s. Brown was diagnosed with HIV and passed away from complications of AIDS in 1997.
- ACT UP NY/Gran Fury
Active New York, New York, 1987–1995 - Shimon Attie
Born Los Angeles, California, 1957 - Eric Avery
Born Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1948 - Luis Cruz Azaceta
Born Havana, Cuba, 1942 - David Binder
Born Flint, Michigan, 1961 - Nayland Blake
Born New York, New York, 1960 - Robert Blanchon
Born Boston, Massachusetts, 1965
Died Chicago, Illinois, 1999 - Ross Bleckner
Born New York, New York, 1949 - Lawrence Brose
Born Buffalo, New York, 1951 - Roger Brown
Born Hamilton, Alabama, 1941
Died Atlanta, Georgia, 1997 - Brian Buczak
Born Detroit, Michigan, 1954
Died New York, New York, 1987 - Scott Burton
Born Greensboro, Alabama, 1939
Died New York, New York, 1989 - Jerome Caja
Born, Cleveland, Ohio, 1958
Died San Francisco, California, 1995 - Mark I. Chester
Born Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1950 - Judy Chicago
Born Chicago, Illinois, 1939 - Sue Coe
Born Tamworth, Staffordshire, England, 1951 - Willie Cole
Born Newark, New Jersey, 1955 - Arch Connelly
Born Chicago, Illinois, 1950
Died New York, New York, 1993 - Ryan Conrad
Born Newport, RI, 1983 - David Cannon Dashiell
Born Tokyo, Japan, 1952
Died San Francisco, California, 1993 - Niki de Saint Phalle
Born Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 1930
Died California, 2002 - Jimmy DeSana
Born Detroit, Michigan, 1949
Died New York, New York, 1990 - William Downs
Born Atlanta, Georgia, 1974 - John Dugdale
Born Stamford, Connecticut, 1960 - Chloe Dzubilo
Born Connecticut, 1960
Died New York, New York, 2011 - Michael Ehle
Born Salinas, California, 1953
Died Seattle, Washington, 1999 - Joy Episalla
Born Bronxville, New York, 1957 - Robert Farber
Born Hartsdale, New York, 1948
Died New York, New York, 1995 - Tony Feher
Born Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1956
Died New York, New York, 2016 - Fierce Pussy
Formed New York, New York, 1991 - Karen Finley
Born Chicago, Illinois, 1956 - Louise Fishman
Born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1939 - Gerard Gaskin
Born Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, 1966 - General Idea
Active 1969–1994 - Robert Gober
Born Wallingford, Connecticut, 1954 - Camilo Godoy
Born 1989, Colombian; raised in the United States - Nan Goldin
Born Washington, DC, 1953 - Daniel Goldstein
Born Mount Vernon, New York, 1950 - Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Born Guáimaro, Cuba, 1957
Died Miami, Florida, 1996 - Keith Haring
Born Reading, Pennsylvania, 1958
Died New York, New York, 1990 - Thomas Haukaas
Born San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1950
Tribal affiliation: Sicangu Lakota - Jim Hodges
Born Spokane, Washington, 1957 - Jenny Holzer
Born Gallipolis, Ohio, 1950 - Jonathan Horowitz
Born New York, New York, 1966 - Peter Hujar
Born Trenton, New Jersey, 1934
Died New York, New York, 1987 - Doug Ischar
Born Honolulu, Hawaii, 1948 - Derek Jackson
Born Boston, Massachusetts, 1972 - Bill Jacobson
Born Norwich, Connecticut, 1955 - Ray Johnson
Born Detroit, Michigan, 1927
Died Sag Harbor, New York, 1995 - Deborah Kass
Born San Antonio, Texas, 1952 - Barbara Kruger
Born Newark, New Jersey, 1945 - Kia Labeija
Born New York, New York, 1990 - LADZ (John Arsenault and Adrian Gilliland)
John Arsenault, Born Haverhill, Massachusetts, 1971
Adrian Gilliland, Born Douglas, Arizona, 1980 - David Lebe
Born New York, New York, 1948 - Charles LeDray
Born Seattle, Washington, 1960 - Annie Leibovitz
Born Waterbury, Connecticut, 1949 - Rudy Lemcke
Born St. Louis, Missouri, 1951 - Keith Lewis
Born Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, 1959 - Edward Lightner
Born Bakersfield, California, 1960 - Glenn Ligon
Born Bronx, New York, 1960 - Kalup Linzy
Born Stuckey, Florida, 1977 - Ronald Lockett
Born Bessemer, Alabama, 1965
Died Bessemer, Alabama, 1998 - Patte Loper
Born Denver, Colorado, 1968 - Whitfield Lovell
Born New York, New York, 1959 - Robert Mapplethorpe
Born Floral Park, New York, 1946
Died Boston, Massachusetts, 1989 - Marlene McCarty
Born Lexington, Kentucky, 1957 - Patric McCoy
Born Chicago, Illinois 1946 - Thomas McGovern
Born Kansas City, Missouri, 1957 - Ann P. Meredith
Born Hot Springs, Arkansas, 1948 - Duane Michals
Born McKeesport, Pennsylvania, 1932 - Steven Miller
Born Tucson, Arizona, 1968 - Donald Moffett
Born San Antonio, Texas, 1955 - Frank Moore
Born New York, New York, 1953
Died New York, New York, 2002 - Mark Morrisroe
Born Malden, Massachusetts, 1959
Died New York, New York, 1989 - Ray Navarro
Born Hawthorne, California, 1964
Died New York, New York, 1990 - Alice O’Malley
Born Buffalo, New York, 1962 - Catherine Opie
Born Sandusky, Ohio, 1961 - Izhar Patkin
Born Haifa, Israel, 1955 - Jack Pierson
Born Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1960 - Howardena Doreen Pindell
Born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1943 - Lari Pittman
Born Los Angeles, California, 1952 - William Powhida
Born New York, New York, 1976 - Michael Qualls
Born Chicago, Illinois, 1961
Died 2005 - Jesse Finley Reed
Born Duxbury, Massachusetts, 1974 - Brett Reichman
Born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1959 - Alon Reininger
Born Tel Aviv, Israel, 1947 - Hunter Reynolds
Born Rochester, Minnesota, 1959 - Eric Rhein
Born Connecticut, 1961 - Marlon Riggs
Born Fort Worth, Texas, 1957
Died Oakland, California, 1994 - Oli Rodriguez
Born Chicago, Illinois, 1980 - Tino Rodriguez
Born Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico, 1965 - Adam Rolston
Born Los Angeles, California, 1962 - Dean Sameshima
Born Torrance, California, 1971 - Andres Serrano
Born New York, New York, 1950 - Robert Sherer
Born Jasper, Alabama, 1957 - Kiki Smith
Born Nuremberg, Germany, 1954 - Rosalind Solomon
Born Highland Park, Illinois, 1930 - Daniel Sotomayor
Born Chicago, Illinois, 1958
Died Chicago, Illinois, 1992 - Larry Stanton
Born Rockville Centre, New York, 1947
Died New York, New York, 1984 - Hugh Steers
Born Washington, DC, 1962
Died New York, New York, 1995 - Ferenc Suto
Born Easton, Connecticut, 1960 - Carl Tadatnick
Born New York, New York, 1956 - Masami Teraoka
Born Onomichi, Hiroshima-ken, Japan, 1936
Works in Honolulu, Hawaii - Joey Terrill
Born Los Angeles, California, 1955 - The NAMES Project Foundation
Established 1987 - Paul Thek
Born Brooklyn, New York, 1933
Died New York, New York, 1988 - Julie Tolentino
Born San Francisco, California, 1964 - Boris Torres
Born Piñas, Ecuador, 1976 - Anthony Viti
Born Rochester, New York, 1961 - Darren Waterston
Born Fresno, California, 1965 - Patrick Webb
Born New York, New York, 1955 - Frederick Weston
Born Memphis, Tennessee, 1946 - Albert J. Winn
Born Chester, Pennsylvania, 1947
Died Los Angeles, California 2014 - David Wojnarowicz
Born Red Bank, New Jersey, 1954
Died New York, New York, 1992 - Martin Wong
Born Portland, Oregon, 1946
Died San Francisco, California, 1999 - Thomas Woodruff
Born New Rochelle, New York, 1954 - Israel Wright
Born Chicago, Illinois, 1954 - Carrie Yamaoka
Born Glen Cove, New York, 1957