Pato Hebert is an artist, educator and cultural worker based in New York and Los Angeles. His work explores the aesthetics, ethics and poetics of interconnectedness. He is particularly interested in space, spirituality, pedagogy and progressive praxis. Recent projects have been presented at Beton7 in Athens, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, the Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen, and The Glass Studio at The Chrysler Museum in Norfolk. In 2015 he was an artist-in-residence with the Neighborhood Time Exchange project in West Philadelphia. In August he will be a BAU Institute/Camargo Foundation Residency Fellow in Cassis, France. Hebert’s work has been supported by grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Creative Work Fund, the National Education Association and a Mid-Career Fellowship for Visual Artists from the California Community Foundation. In 2008 he received the Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award from Center in Santa Fe. He teaches as an Associate Arts Professor in the Department of Art & Public Policy at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. He has also worked in community-based HIV prevention initiatives with queer communities of color since 1994. He continues this grassroots work through his current projects with the Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF), where he helps to develop innovative international approaches to community mobilization, programs and advocacy. (Photo by Ken Merfeld)
When the world is caught in collective pain, it is strange that we don’t know how to talk about it. In this creative and personal pain-scale, Nishant Shah names, heeds, and measures a shared language for holding pain.
COVID long-haulers can’t and won’t be left behind. We’re inviting you to join us in a necessary and shared reckoning with the pandemic’s ongoing toll, and in the making of a new world.
In order to heal through the fog, frustration and fatigue of the pandemic, COVID cannot be the only variant. Our culture must also mutate.
An exploration of the stigmatized COVID body, the challenges of long hauling, and how to hold the particularities of pain.
In the first installment of the Long Hauling series, two artists and HIV activists reflect on mutual care and their experience of being sick with COVID-19 during the initial months of the pandemic in 2020.
Black queerness, self-care, and the lure of the ephemeral.
Space and time, rhythms and vibrations: creating space for bodies to be together, particularly LGBTQI people of colour.
The intimate process of portrait-making in pop-up studios is like creating a queer temporal family.
Durban, South Africa, July 16, 2016 This year, London-based artist, archivist, and curator Ajamu and New York and Los Angeles-based artist, educator, and organizer Pato Hebert collaborated on a series of activities at the
What is the role that memory, creativity, and storytelling played in the formation of queer communities during the time of AIDS?
