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Visual AIDS

Visual AIDS utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving the legacy -- because AIDS IS NOT OVER! AIDS is NOT OVER!

01/09/2026

Postcards from the Edge is almost here! Collector’s Preview and Online Preview tickets are now on sale. Be among the first to see the 1560+ original artworks that will go onsale starting at 10am EST on Saturday, January 24 only at postcards.visualaids.org.

🔴 As ramping cuts to HIV/AIDS funding, threats to free speech, and uncertainty for so many lingers, we look forward to gathering together as a global community to raise vital funds for our work at Visual AIDS.

🔴 Our full 2026 contributing artist list is now live on the Postcards website. Check it out!

🔴 Visit the link in our bio for more info on key dates, preview tickets, and our full artist list.

Note: contributing artists will receive an email invitation to the in-person and online preview the week of 1/12 including information on guests. No need to purchase tickets

Photo: George Sierzputowski

01/08/2026

This weekend is your last chance to see Ministry: Reverend Joyce McDonald at !

Join us on Saturday 3–5PM for a closing reception with Reverend Joyce McDonald and curator Kyle Croft. Guests will enjoy art, music, and light refreshments. The exhibition is on view through Sunday January 11.

Ministry: Reverend Joyce McDonald is the first museum exhibition devoted to the artist’s work, bringing together her early sculptures in air-dry clay and found materials with recent glazed ceramics.

Inspired by McDonald’s history of repurposing stairs and furniture into display surfaces, her sculptures are presented on stepped pedestals designed by Le Xie (.nyc). Archival materials provide a nuance a nuanced portrait of McDonald’s biography, tracing her upbringing in Brooklyn’s Farragut houses as well as her decades of exhibiting art as an artist member of Visual AIDS.

Installation views of Ministry: Reverend Joyce McDonald at The Bronx Museum. Photos by Argenis Apolinario

12/22/2025

Postcards from the Edge, Visual AIDS’s beloved fundraiser and exhibition, returns for its 28th year! Our 2026 edition features over 1500 original, postcard works from blue chip, emerging, and new artists from around the globe. All sales go directly to our work at Visual AIDS.

In this frightening moment for work around HIV, AIDS, and art, proceeds raised from Postcards from the Edge are more crucial than ever. Join us!

🔴Opening preview:
Friday, January 23
Collector Preview Tickets will go on sale in early January. Contributing artists will receive information about their free artist ticket in early January as well.

Full artist list plus more information on times, tickets, and guidelines for artist guests forthcoming.

🔴Online sale begins:
Saturday, January 24
10am EST only at postcards.visualaids.org
Our sale is fully online once again and all postcards are just $100 with free domestic shipping. Guidelines for shopping will be published in early 2026.

Available artworks will be on view at our wonderful host gallery (524 W 26th St) on Saturday, January 24 and Sunday, January 25 during limited gallery hours.

Questions? Email postcards@visualaids.org.

The Visual AIDS offices will be closed 12/24-1/5. Happy New Year!

12/04/2025

Impersonating the dead can be risky work. This year, ‘Peter Hujar’s Day’ by and ‘Can I Be Frank?’ by each used reenactment to animate artists lost to AIDS.

On the Visual AIDS Journal, Sachs and Bassichis join Kyle Croft discuss reenactment, creative license, and the complicated desires that shape how we remember and remake the past.

Images:
- Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall in Peter Hujar’s Day, directed by Ira Sachs. Courtesy of
- Morgan Bassichis in Can I Be Frank? Photo: Emilio Madrid

12/01/2025

Visual AIDS fosters culture that understands HIV as part of human experience, because we all live in a world shaped by HIV and AIDS. More than 40 million people are living with HIV today, and 44 million more have been lost to the pandemic.

On World AIDS Day, we are centering the voices of people who use drugs. Shame and stigma have created a culture of silence that removes possibilities from people’s lives and reinforces a single narrative about drug use and HIV.

Today we are releasing Meet Us Where We’re At, six new videos that break the silence around HIV and drug use. When we forefront the voices of people who use drugs in culture, we uncover new visions of how drugs can exist inside of a person’s life. These honest conversations about drugs deepen our understanding of risk and illuminate what possibilities exist for pleasure, relationships, care, and creativity.

Meet Us Where We’re At is available to stream online at video.visualaids.org, and is screening at more than 100 museums, universities, and non-profit spaces around the world starting today. Head to the link in our bio to start watching. ❤️

[images: Gustavo Vinagre and Vinicius Couto, chempassion., 2025. Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Meet Us Where We’re At.]

11/14/2025

🌎 Our newest program of short videos, Meet Us Where We’re At, for Day With(out) Art 2025 premieres on Nov. 30 and premieres globally on Dec. 1 🌍

Meet Us Where We’re At is a program of six videos that forefront the experiences of drug users and harm reduction practices as they intersect with the ongoing HIV crisis.

With videos by:
🔸Camilo Tapia Flores
🔸Camila Flores-Fernández
🔸Hoàng Thái Anh
🔸Kenneth Idongesit Usoro
🔸José Luis Cortés
🔸Gustavo Vinagre & Vinicius Couto

RSVP now for the NYC premiere , Sunday, Nov 30, 2:30pm (link in bio)

🌏 100+ more screenings worldwide — head to video.visualaids.org to find one near you!

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