Queer Art presents Holding it Together, a group exhibition bringing together 20 queer New York based artists organized in collaboration between Marco DaSilva, Isa López, and Beverly’s NYC. The exhibition is a fundraiser responding to the escalating defunding initiatives by the current administration, whose policies flirt with authoritarianism, formulating the precarious economic landscape we currently face. Rooted in principles of solidarity economies and mutual aid, the exhibition serves as an urgent call to collectively build systems of support to cope with the economic crisis through local, informal, and mutual networks. 100% of funds raised will directly support Queer|Art and participating artists. 

Holding it Together, titled after Pol Morton’s painting in the exhibition, features artworks across various mediums that draw from lived experience, exploring memory held through objects, bodies, materials, and traditions. The exhibition considers these works as containers of remembrance, reflecting on sites of transformation and reclamation through histories, people, bodies and inherited cultural practices. Through reflections on erasure and recollection, the works deconstruct histories that continue to constitute the present, engaging themes of reclamation, abstraction, and the ongoing process of community and reimagining queer life.

ON VIEW: June 18–July 18, 2026 at 297 Grand Street, New York, NY 10002
OPENING RECEPTION: June 18, 2026, 5–8 PM
AFTER PARTY: June 18, 2026, 8 PM–Late, with DJ sets from Glue residents Miss Beverly, sinistare, Tek Nena
CLOSING RECEPTION: July 18, 2026

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

PURCHASE WORKS

All profits directly support Queer|Art and participating artists

ABOUT BEVERLY’S NYC

The exhibition takes place at Beverly’s NYC, a bar and art space that has served as a safe haven and gathering place for generations of artists for over a decade. As an artist-built and run bar, community-driven exhibition space established in 2012 in the Chinatown neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, Beverly’s exists outside the traditional gallery system and has cultivated its own life as a collaborative site for artists to gather and create in dialogue with one another. Having supported and exhibited the work of over 300 artists, Beverly’s remains a vital part of New York’s DIY and alternative art ecosystem, one rooted in community and collective care. Follow Beverly’s on Instagram here.

ABOUT QUEER|ART

Founded in 2009, Queer|Art cultivates a dynamic community of LGBTQ+ artists across generations and artistic disciplines. We provide intergenerational mentorship, public programming, and material support to shape culture and drive societal change.

Our offerings re-build community in the face of the devastating loss of a generation of artists to the ongoing AIDS crisis, and address the lack of economic and institutional support for LGBTQ+ artists. We are rooted in the knowledge that queer and trans people are unstoppable when we build networks that foster collective imagination, defiance, creativity, and care.

QUEER|ART|MENTORSHIP, our flagship program, has supported 300 artists over 15 years by building a national network of Mentors and Fellows. Other programmatic initiatives include our PRESENTS series (public presentations organized in partnership with co-presenting venues) and our AWARDS branch (a slate of grants, prizes, and residencies that includes a spectrum of support—monetary and otherwise—for LGBTQ+ artists). Follow us on Instagram here.