Avram Finkelstein: After Silence

Avram Finkelstein is an artist, activist and writer living in Brooklyn, and a founding member of the Silence=Death and Gran Fury collectives. He is featured in the American Artist oral history project at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art. His book, "After Silence: A History of AIDS Through its Images," is available through University of California Press, and was nominated for an International Center of Photography' 2018 Infinity Award in Critical Writing and Research, and a 30th Annual Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Nonfiction. He has work in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Whitney, the Metropolitan Museum, the New Museum, the Smithsonian, the Brooklyn Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the New York Public Library, and his work has shown at the Whitney Museum, The Shed, the Metropolitan Museum, the New Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Hirschhorn Museum, the Cooper Hewitt Museum, Grey Art Gallery, the Migros Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, and the Leslie Lohman Museum. He has had numerous public commissions, and residencies at Pioneer Works and The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics.

Learn more about the artist on his website: https://www.avramfinkelstein.com/

This talk took place on April 3, 2024 and was hosted over Zoom as part of the Spring 2024 Paul Rand Lecture Series in Graphic Design at the Yale School of Art. Hosted by Alex Fialho, with an introduction by Geoff Kaplan, Lecturer in Graphic Design. Administrative support by Larissa Hall, Senior Administrative Assistant, and Lindsey Mancini. Video editing by Lindsey Mancini, Assistant Director of Communications.

The Paul Rand Lecture Series is made possible through the generosity of the Paul Rand (’85 M.A.H.) Annual Lectureship in Design Fund.