Aimee Ng is a curator, The Frick Collection, New York.Xavier F. Salomon is deputy director & Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, The Frick Collection, New York.Stephen Truax is an artist, writer and curator. Born 1985, Glenview, IL he lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His solo exhibition How Will I Know, was organized by Anne Luther, 67 Ludlow, New York, NY in 2016.Jonathan Anderson is a fashion designer, the founder and creative director of the the eponymous JW Anderson, and the creative director of Loewe.Jessica Bell Brown is a writer and art historian based in Harlem. She is curator and head of the contemporary art department, Baltimore Museum of Art.Christopher Y. Lew is chief artistic director of the Horizon foundation, a new art foundation focused on supporting emerging and mid-career artists launched in Los Angeles 2022.Jason Reynolds is an award-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author. His works include Ghost (2016) and two more books in what became his New York Times best-selling Track series, Patina (2017) and Sunny and As Brave As You, winner of the 2016 Kirkus Prize.Legacy Russell is a curator and writer. Born and raised in New York City, she is the executive director & chief curator of the experimental new media, art, and performance institution The Kitchen.Russell Tovey as an actor, producer, art collector and podcaster. He played the role of Kevin Matheson in the HBO original series Looking and Patrick Read in American Horror Story: NYC.Hanya Yanagihara is an American novelist, editor, and travel writer. She is the author of the bestselling novels A Little Life (2015), and To Paradise (2022), and is currently Editor in Chief of T Magazine.

"This work should be included in any art library. . . . The book’s grounding as not just about four Queer artists’ works, but as a larger discussion of portraiture and art history, allows this book to be helpful in a variety of classes or projects.”—Art Libraries Society of North America, (ARLIS/NA)

• Director's PrefaceAcknowledgmentsForeword: Look at Us by Hanya YanagiharaIntroduction: Why by Xavier F. Salomon"We Can Occupy This Space Now" by Stephen TruaxJenna Gribbon and Toyin Ojih Odutola: Color as Communique by Jessica Bell BrownHindsight by Aimee Ng"The future eats the past, eats the future" by Russell ToveyCatalogueJenna Gribbon's What Am I Doing Here? I Should Ask You the SameJenna Gribbon in Conversation with Legacy RussellDoron Langberg' LoverDoron Langberg in Conversation with Jonathan AndersonSalman Toor's Museum BoysSalman Toor in Conversation with Christopher Y. LewToyin Ojih Odutola's The ListenerToyin Ojih Odutola in Conversation with Jason ReynoldsArtist BiographiesIndexImage Credits

Aimee Ng is a curator, The Frick Collection, New York.Xavier F. Salomon is deputy director & Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, The Frick Collection, New York.Stephen Truax is an artist, writer and curator. Born 1985, Glenview, IL he lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His solo exhibition How Will I Know, was organized by Anne Luther, 67 Ludlow, New York, NY in 2016.Jonathan Anderson is a fashion designer, the founder and creative director of the the eponymous JW Anderson, and the creative director of Loewe.Jessica Bell Brown is a writer and art historian based in Harlem. She is curator and head of the contemporary art department, Baltimore Museum of Art.Christopher Y. Lew is chief artistic director of the Horizon foundation, a new art foundation focused on supporting emerging and mid-career artists launched in Los Angeles 2022.Jason Reynolds is an award-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author. His works include Ghost (2016) and two more books in what became his New York Times best-selling Track series, Patina (2017) and Sunny and As Brave As You, winner of the 2016 Kirkus Prize.Legacy Russell is a curator and writer. Born and raised in New York City, she is the executive director & chief curator of the experimental new media, art, and performance institution The Kitchen.Russell Tovey as an actor, producer, art collector and podcaster. He played the role of Kevin Matheson in the HBO original series Looking and Patrick Read in American Horror Story: NYC.Hanya Yanagihara is an American novelist, editor, and travel writer. She is the author of the bestselling novels A Little Life (2015), and To Paradise (2022), and is currently Editor in Chief of T Magazine.

"This work should be included in any art library. . . . The book’s grounding as not just about four Queer artists’ works, but as a larger discussion of portraiture and art history, allows this book to be helpful in a variety of classes or projects.”—Art Libraries Society of North America, (ARLIS/NA)

• Director's PrefaceAcknowledgmentsForeword: Look at Us by Hanya YanagiharaIntroduction: Why by Xavier F. Salomon"We Can Occupy This Space Now" by Stephen TruaxJenna Gribbon and Toyin Ojih Odutola: Color as Communique by Jessica Bell BrownHindsight by Aimee Ng"The future eats the past, eats the future" by Russell ToveyCatalogueJenna Gribbon's What Am I Doing Here? I Should Ask You the SameJenna Gribbon in Conversation with Legacy RussellDoron Langberg' LoverDoron Langberg in Conversation with Jonathan AndersonSalman Toor's Museum BoysSalman Toor in Conversation with Christopher Y. LewToyin Ojih Odutola's The ListenerToyin Ojih Odutola in Conversation with Jason ReynoldsArtist BiographiesIndexImage Credits

Aimee Ng is a curator, The Frick Collection, New York.Xavier F. Salomon is deputy director & Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, The Frick Collection, New York.Stephen Truax is an artist, writer and curator. Born 1985, Glenview, IL he lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His solo exhibition How Will I Know, was organized by Anne Luther, 67 Ludlow, New York, NY in 2016.Jonathan Anderson is a fashion designer, the founder and creative director of the the eponymous JW Anderson, and the creative director of Loewe.Jessica Bell Brown is a writer and art historian based in Harlem. She is curator and head of the contemporary art department, Baltimore Museum of Art.Christopher Y. Lew is chief artistic director of the Horizon foundation, a new art foundation focused on supporting emerging and mid-career artists launched in Los Angeles 2022.Jason Reynolds is an award-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author. His works include Ghost (2016) and two more books in what became his New York Times best-selling Track series, Patina (2017) and Sunny and As Brave As You, winner of the 2016 Kirkus Prize.Legacy Russell is a curator and writer. Born and raised in New York City, she is the executive director & chief curator of the experimental new media, art, and performance institution The Kitchen.Russell Tovey as an actor, producer, art collector and podcaster. He played the role of Kevin Matheson in the HBO original series Looking and Patrick Read in American Horror Story: NYC.Hanya Yanagihara is an American novelist, editor, and travel writer. She is the author of the bestselling novels A Little Life (2015), and To Paradise (2022), and is currently Editor in Chief of T Magazine.

"This work should be included in any art library. . . . The book’s grounding as not just about four Queer artists’ works, but as a larger discussion of portraiture and art history, allows this book to be helpful in a variety of classes or projects.”—Art Libraries Society of North America, (ARLIS/NA)

• Director's PrefaceAcknowledgmentsForeword: Look at Us by Hanya YanagiharaIntroduction: Why by Xavier F. Salomon"We Can Occupy This Space Now" by Stephen TruaxJenna Gribbon and Toyin Ojih Odutola: Color as Communique by Jessica Bell BrownHindsight by Aimee Ng"The future eats the past, eats the future" by Russell ToveyCatalogueJenna Gribbon's What Am I Doing Here? I Should Ask You the SameJenna Gribbon in Conversation with Legacy RussellDoron Langberg' LoverDoron Langberg in Conversation with Jonathan AndersonSalman Toor's Museum BoysSalman Toor in Conversation with Christopher Y. LewToyin Ojih Odutola's The ListenerToyin Ojih Odutola in Conversation with Jason ReynoldsArtist BiographiesIndexImage Credits