Commemorate World AIDS Day with a panel discussion featuring multidisciplinary artists Rubén Esparza, Ken Gonzales-Day, and Joey Terrill, and photographer/documentarian Judy Ornelas Sisneros, moderated by art journalist Carolina A. Miranda.
Artists have long raised their voices against injustice, channeled their unique talents to bring awareness to important topics, picked up cameras to document the world as it needs to be seen, and rallied movements around shared ideals. The Broad collection includes many artists whose artwork addresses cultural crises and current social and political topics.
Throughout their careers, the speakers featured in this conversation have defiantly and proudly shaped how we see the AIDS crisis along with other pertinent issues. This conversation traces a timeline from the US government mishandling the onset of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s, to Proposition 8 for same-sex marriage, the Covid-19 crisis, and repeated attempts to silence and strip rights from LGBTQIA+ individuals, immigrants, and other marginalized people.
Rubén Esparza (b. 1962 in El Paso, TX, lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) is an interdisciplinary artist whose works span the media of painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, and collage. As an independent curator, his artistic practice includes an extensive curatorial project record.
Ken Gonzales-Day arrived in New York in 1983 where he would come to know a community of artists whose lives and work were deeply impacted by HIV/AIDS including Keith Haring, Félix González-Torres, and David Wojnarowicz. He is now a Los Angeles-based artist.
Carolina A. Miranda is an independent culture writer and critic based in Los Angeles, covering visual culture, design, performance, books, and digital life. Until early 2024, she was a columnist at the Los Angeles Times.
Judy Ornelas Sisneros was a member of ACT UP Los Angeles from mid-May 1990 to January 1995. She was a member of the Women’s Caucus and in spring of 1991 she co-facilitated the Agitating & Legal Committee whose major action was the AIDSphobia in Hollywood campaign.
Joey Terrill (b. 1955, Los Angeles, California) joins diverse mediums of zine-making, performance, printmaking, collage, and painting in a body of work that tenderly encompasses his intimate experiences of intersecting queer, Chicano and artistic communities.
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