It is important to note that work by women and non-whites within this genre really only begin to appear in the last period.

In tracing this trajectory of the classical nude across history, this show concentrates on four periods: Antiquity, Renaissance, 19 th Century and Modern/Contemporary. The classical past is thus queer culture’s central original myth, and its representation offers insight about the culture that appropriated it. The Museum will undertake it’s most ambitious exhibition in it’s history in the fall of 2014 when it opens the Classical Nude and the Making of Queer History.Ĭurated by Jonathan David Katz, exhibition’s central premise is that the image of the classical past is a recurring touchstone in the historical development of same-sex representation, and as such, constitutes a sensitive barometer of the shifting constructions of what we today call LGBT or queer culture. More recently her work has been exhibited in Every Moment Counts - AIDS and its Feelings at Henie Onstad Art Center, Bærum, Norway (2022) The Rebel Dykes Art & Archive Show at Space Station Sixty-Five, London, UK (2021) Hot Moment at Auto Italia South East, London, UK (2020) and Resist: be modern (again) at John Hansard Gallery (Southampton, UK) 2019.Sunil Gupta will feature in the exhibition at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, Octoto January 4, 2015, Curated by Jonathan David Katz The accompanying books to those exhibitions remain of critical importance, Ecstatic Antibodies contributed to the understanding of images in the AIDS crisis and Stolen Glances is a guide to lesbian photography of the time. In 1990 she co-curated the seminal exhibition, Ecstatic Antibodies: Resisting the AIDS mythology with Sunil Gupta and the major touring exhibition Stolen Glances: Lesbians Take Photographs in 1991 with Jean Fraser.

She was an active part of a community of photographers, curating and featuring in many exhibitions. Boffin gained a BA (Hons) Degree in Photographic Arts (Theory and Practice) from Polytechnic of Central London (now University of Westminster) in 1986 and an MA in Critical Theory from University of Sussex, UK.

Stolen Glances by Tessa Boffin