David Wonjnarowicz, Arthur Rimbaud in New York, 1978–79/2004. Gelatin silver print on paper. Courtesy the Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P·P·O·W, New York

Founded in 1987, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (LLMA) is a platform for contemporary LGBTQIA+ artists and stewards a collection of more than 25,000 objects. Under the direction of curator Stamatina Gregory, the museum’s vision foregrounds queerness and transness as methods—tools for re-radicalizing history, interpreting systems of power, and positing liberatory futures. Over the next three years, LLMA will continue to develop new commissions, historical exhibitions, performance series, collection-based research, and artist-led scholarship. 

Gregory aims to connect queer, trans, BIPOC, and disabled artists with audiences across time and geography. In collaboration with guest curators, they prioritize research-based practices that highlight ephemeral queer histories and their material evidence. In fall 2025, David Wojnarowicz: Arthur Rimbaud in New York, organized by guest curator Antonio Sergio Bessa, will revisit the artist’s 1978–79 photo series alongside archival materials from NYU’s Fales Library and other collections. That same season, South African artist Athi-Patra Ruga will debut a new commission drawing on Xhosa history and legend, post-apartheid South Africa, and queer Black femme culture to imagine utopic and dystopic visions of national identity, rife with gender play and ceremonial pomp.

Athi-Patra Ruga, Over the Rainbow (Queens in Exile Series), 2016–17 (still). Single-channel HD video, edition of 10 + 2AP. Courtesy the artist and WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town

 In spring 2026, LLMA will present the first major New York solo exhibition of new media pioneer Shu Lea Cheang (b.1954, Taiwan; based in Paris). LOVER, LOVE is an interactive installation exploring love, loss, and viewer agency. Created in the wake of the premature passing of DJ and performer Aérea Negrot, the work reflects on trans love and grief, holding space for personal loss and the broader reality of trans death. During a US tour of Fresh Kill (1994), while mourning Aérea, Cheang formed connections with the trans community in Tucson, AZ, with whom she will collaborate on this project.

Stamatina Gregory is Chief Curator and Director of Programs at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. She leads the development of the museum’s exhibitions program, and works to expand and diversify its holdings. Gregory’s work has focused primarily on the interrelationship of contemporary art and politics, and queer and trans futures. She has organized exhibitions for institutions such as the Santa Monica Museum of Art/Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA), Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania (ICA Philadelphia), FLAG Art Foundation (New York), and the Austrian Cultural Forum (New York). While serving as Associate Dean of The Cooper Union, Gregory co-curated Bring Your Own Body: Transgender Between Archives and Aesthetics (2015) with Jeanne Vaccaro. She was Deputy Curator for Tavares Strachan’s presentation for the inaugural pavilion of The Bahamas at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013). Gregory trained at NYU and The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), and is an alumna of the Whitney Independent Study Program (ISP).

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