Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall, Brooklyn Museum, May 3 – December 8, 2019. (Photo: Jonathan Dorado)
Brooklyn Museum, 2019
Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall
Curatorial Collective Member
Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall presented a constellation of twenty-eight LGBTQ+ artists born after the 1969 Stonewall Uprising and working, five decades later, in New York, the hometown of the revolt. Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the six-day rebellion—ignited by a routine police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village—the exhibition explored the profound legacy of the Uprising within art and visual culture today. At once looking to history and facing the future, the artists on view pay tribute to activist foreparents while asking how we will care for tomorrow's generations.
Curated by a curatorial collective, including Carmen Hermo, and Margo Cohen Ristorucci (Public Programs Coordinator); Lindsay C. Harris (then Teen Programs Manager, Education); Allie Rickard (then Curatorial Assistant, Center for Feminist Art); and Lauren Argentina Zelaya (Director, Public Programs), and its Resource Room was organized by Levi Narine (Teen Programs Assistant).
Artists: Mark Aguhar, Felipe Baeza, Morgan Bassichis, Anna Betbeze, David Antonio Cruz, TM Davy, Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski, John Edmonds, Mohammed Fayaz, Camilo Godoy, Jeffrey Gibson, Hugo Gyrl, Juliana Huxtable, Rindon Johnson, DonChristian Jones, Papi Juice, Elektra KB, Linda LaBeija, Park McArthur, Michi Ilona Osato, Una Aya Osato, Elle Pérez, LJ Roberts, Tuesday Smillie, Tourmaline, Kiyan Williams, Sasha Wortzel, and Constantina Zavitsanos.
In 2021, the was reanimated and exhibited on the West Coast by Fresno State's Phebe Conley Art Gallery, organized by Dr. Cindy Urrutia and amplified with the work of Marcel Alcalá, Chicome Itzcuintli Amatlapalli, and Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo.