The QUEER|ART COMMUNITY PORTRAIT PROJECT is an annual commission of digital portraits, celebrating artists who are part of our diverse and vibrant community.

For the Queer|Art Community Portrait Project, artists from across different disciplines and generations gather once a year to participate in a marathon photoshoot event, sitting for their portraits as representatives of the Queer|Art community. Over time, the project will chart nuances of generational and personal growth within the community—as many artists return and new artists are welcomed into the mix—all seen through the lens of a different photographer each year.

2023 GALLERY

Photographer: CaTCHING ON THIEVES

For the first time in Queer|Art history, this year's commissioned photographer was a Current Queer|Art|Mentorship Fellow: Catching On Thieves! Hailing from West Palm Beach, FL, Catching's (she/her) parents immigrated from Kingston, Jamaica and Lahore, Pakistan. She likes to say she is polyamorous about her art practice: working across drawing, writing, painting, sculpting, photographing and performing, whatever gets the job done. For her MFA thesis at the University of Pennsylvania, she is producing a multimedia docu-series fundraiser called Catching on The Nose, which explores the complicated functions of our noses both literally and literarily, through the lens of evolutionary biology, embodied memory and that persnickety weapon of poetry, thought, law, and language. The work will culminate in a revision rhinoplasty to repair the complications that arose from a negligent Facial Feminization Surgery she had in the fall of 2021. The resulting organ will exist as a living sculpture.

Catching photographed the other Fellows from her cohort at this year's Queer|Art|Mentorship Retreat, which took place in May at The Petronio Residency Center in the Catskill Mountains. The resulting photos are intimate and honest, balancing each Fellows' unique radiance with the lush, idyllic setting.

Click on any picture below to learn more about the person and their affiliation to Queer|Art.

These images should not be reprinted or linked without permission, and credit to the photographer and the Queer|Art Community Portrait Project must always be included. All requests for reusing any of these photographs should be directed to info@queer-art.org.

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