Exhibition · 2022
prepare my heart
Autobiographical solo exhibition about love, loss, and growing up HIV-positive in New York City, honoring her late mother.
Kia LaBeija
New York-based visual artist and performer whose practice explores queer Black intimacy, ballroom culture, and HIV survivorship.
Career
Visual Artist; Performer
Origin / Ethnicity / Heritage
African-American, Filipino
Additional Languages
English
Pronouns
She/Her
About
- Origin / Ethnicity / Heritage
- African-American, Filipino
- Pronouns
- She/Her
- Location
- New York City, New York, United States
- Additional Languages
- English
Photography · 2014
24
Self-portrait photography series investigating her relationship to growing up with HIV as a woman of color in New York City.
Literature
2019
DUETS: Kia LaBeija & Julie Tolentino In Conversation
Kia LaBeija and Julie Tolentino come together for an intergenerational dialogue that illuminates their histories as artists and their relationships to HIV/AIDS spanning more than twenty years.