Jimmy Wright
jimboalley.bsky.social
Jimmy Wright
@jimboalley.bsky.social
World AIDS Day – a day without art
Remembering Ken Nuzzo
December 2, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I’m showing an artwork in the @BOFFO_ny Fall Benefit Exhibition LAVENDER BLOOM, opening Thursday, October 23rd
LAVENDER BLOOM
BOFFO Fall Benefit Exhibition 2025
Opening October 23, 6 - 8 PM
Public Hours October 24 & 25, 10 AM - 6 PM
kurimanzutto new york
516 West 20th Street
New York, NY 10011
October 23, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Queer Stories, Queer Spaces: Southern Illinois Histories and Queertographies
April 4th – October 31, 2025
SHARP MUSEUM, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
◾️Oral Histories, Memories, Facts, and Figures of the local queer community of the greater Carbondale Area in the 1970s and 1980s.◾️
August 31, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Upstate Gnarly!, a group show presented in Ashley Garrett and Brian Wood’s studio for Upstate Art Weekend, explores body in mind in nature. The fourteen-artist exhibition is an interaction of work across multiple media including painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, and photography.
July 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM
a field of bloom and hum—Thank you, Ian Berry and the incredible team at the Tang Museum, for hosting me on June 6. It was an astonishing day talking with incoming students about the genesis of my painting. Many thanks to John Corbett and David Fierman for renting a car and making the trip upstate.
June 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
May 31, 2025 at 6:05 PM
In my small town in the early 1960s, there were “old bachelors” and railroad men. The old bachelors were from prominent families with social positions and had university degrees. One was the subject of gossip for his old money wealth and for giving drinking and card parties….
May 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Stephen Friedman Gallery presents 'Queer Love', erotic drawings by Bloomsbury group member Duncan Grant (1885–1978) & contemporary queer artists: Soufiane Ababri, Leilah Babirye, Anthony Cudahy, Kyle Dunn, Alex Foxton, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Wardell Milan, Sola Olulode, Tom Worsfold and Jimmy Wright
April 15, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Installation view, a field of bloom and hum, Tang Teaching Museum, Feb 14 - Jul 20, 2025, photograph by Mindy McDaniel. a field of bloom and hum is organized by Dayton Director Ian Berry in collaboration with artists and Skidmore faculty.
April 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Southern Cultures-Volume 31, Number 1, Spring 2025
Launch April 14, 2025

What a Fellowship
Jimmy Wright’s Down Home
Jimmy Wright (bio) and John Corbett introduced by (bio)

Published by UNC Press for the Center for the Study of the American South, with readers in the region and beyond.
March 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
March 15, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Speed Art Museum
March 2, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Shellac ink on yupo, 11 x 14 in.
February 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Paradise series is inspired by Persian and Mughal paintings and memories of my 1968 visits to gardens in Iran. Pakistan, and India. This is a waterfall grotto. 14 x 11 in., shellac ink on yupo.
February 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I am a contributing artist to the 15th issue of Candy Transversal, which celebrates Candy Daring. The edition is limited to 1500 copies in fifteen cover designs. byluisvenegas.myshopify.com/collections/...
Publisher Luis Venegas @studiobyluisvenegas
Graphic Design Setanta @setanta_design
February 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Jimmy Wright, Sun and Shadow, 96 x 72 in., oil on hemp, 2001

a field of bloom and hum

Feb 14 - Jul 20

Tang
Skidmore
February 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Jimmy Wright, Silver Sky, 1975-6, acrylic on canvas, 54h x 66w in 137.16h x 167.64w cm
Collection Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute

With gratitude
Eric Crosby, Henry J. Heinz II Director, Carnegie Museum of Art
Robyn Farrell, curator of The Focus, Armory Show
Corbett vs. Dempsey
Fierman
February 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
# 1-2, Studio, January, 2025, Photos by Hiroo Takaoka #3,
#4 Study for painting, “Sunlight at the bottom of the garden,” shellac ink on yupo paper
January 26, 2025 at 1:25 AM
LOOKING BACK / THE 15TH WHITE COLUMNS ANNUAL
Selected by Elisabeth Kley
Opening Friday, January 17, 2025
January 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Hola, dear Jimmy. I’m paying tribute to the legendary Candy Darling, and I think it would be awesome if you would create a new portrait of her for his issue.
BESOS Y GRACIAS!
LUIS VENEGAS

C☆NDY TRANSVERSAL
15TH ISSUE - 2025
A WORLD OF PURE IMAGINATION
January 26, 2025 at 1:14 AM
When the Lights Come On: Queer Nightlife as Emergent Space, The Brew House, 711 S 21st Street, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, curated by Hannah Turpin, showcases local, national, and international artists reflecting on their experiences of queer nightlife.
January 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Going, Going, Gone! Postcard #1429
postcards.visualaids.org/collections/....
EXHIBITION:
Berry Campbell Gallery
524 W 26th Street
January 24-26, 2025
January 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Jimmy Wright’s important work Flowers for Ken: Sunflower Stem (1988-91) was acquired for the museum’s permanent current collection.
Crosscurrents: Contemporary Art from the Speed Art Museum Collection and Beyond

@speedartmuseum @tylerblackwell
@corbettvsdempsey @fiermangallery
January 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Lionheart Gay Theater Company, Chicago, presented the world’s first play about AIDS “One”, by Jeff Hagedorn. The poster featured the 1975 graphite drawing, Uniform. The drawing is in the book Jimmy Wright: New York Underground, published by Corbett vs Dempsey
corbettvsdempsey.com/books/bathho...
December 16, 2024 at 2:37 AM