Léuli Eshrāghi’s LGBTQ+ Artists to Celebrate

For this Pride Month, Artsy tapped eight curators and tastemakers with ties to the queer community to share the artists they’re championing this month, and why. Through their eyes, we dive into the practices of more than 70 artists, who together speak to the essence of Pride and why the visibility of LGBTQ+ artists is critical not just this month, but always.Léuli Eshrāghi—inspired in part by their own Indigenous Sāmoan culture, in which fa’afafine and other gender identities have existed for centuries—highlights Indigenous and queer artists whose works are all “conceptually solid and poetic, as well as materially rigorous,” including asinnajaq, Walter Kaheró:ton Scott, Yann Pocreau, Carlos Motta, …