Students from across the SUNY system submitted works of art to show how they put Pride in Action. Explore their photos, visual art, stories, and more below. You can also view the previous art gallery for SUNY Pride 2021.
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Digital photograph, 2021
Eric Afflerbach, SUNY New Paltz Student
An image of myself is projected onto a plastic sheet, which distorts my features. I reach out to touch the sheet, trying to connect with my queerness.
Digital photograph, 2022
Eric Afflerbach, SUNY New Paltz Alumnus
This is an image from my thesis project Is He...You Know, which explores the beauty in my queerness to overcome the shame and fear I've felt in the past about being gay
Photography/drag, 2022
Tyler Lormel, FIT Student
Photography/drag, 2022
Tyler Lormel, FIT Student
Painting, 2021
Carolyn Watson, University at Albany Student
This particular body of work focuses on Identity. Particularly sharing a reminder that even the trauma and struggles make up your identity.
Digital, 2022
Sonja Boyko, SUNY Purchase College student
This piece is celebrating the LGBTQI+ community throughout the world. It shows how all of us are connected no matter our identity, ethnicity, or religion.
Digital, 2020
Jennifer Glass, NYS College of Ceramics at Alfred University student
This is part of a series of digital doodles I created for Pride month. What better way to celebrate pride than with adorable colorful puppies?
Digital, 2022
Jennifer Glass, NYS College of Ceramics at Alfred University student
This is part of a series of digital doodles I created for Pride month. What better way to celebrate pride than with adorable colorful puppies?
Painting, 2021
Eliott Houghtelling, NYS College of Ceramics at Alfred University student
Portrait of my partner in the shower, as I remember them.
Lithography, 2022
Jack Dambrosio, Stony Brook University alumnus
Not Man Enough is satirical in nature, as I don’t think there is truly a way to be "man enough." Some people will never see me as a true man solely based on the gender I was assigned at birth. I created this print as a way to show what little value other people’s perceptions of my gender has on me.
Sculpture, 2022
Lukas Perry, NYS College of Ceramics at Alfred University student
Burnt Out explores the remnants of the human body and the loss of one's inner self through the view of a young gay male immersed in queer hookup culture. Beyond this, it depicts my own experience of being reduced to nothing but short, objectifying profile names like those on the urn. Feelings of being torn apart and degraded appear through the damage done to the surface or "skin" of the urn while the stitching showcases a desire to rebuild myself and change my skin to fit the words I’ve been called.
Digital, 2022
Malia Minckler, SUNY Oswego Alumnus
A young athlete looks on as she marvels at a successful, LGBTQIA+ athlete and activist. Female athletes AND trans athletes have every right to participate in their sport and it is vital that they have the opportunity to use their platform to inspire LGBTQIA+ youth.
Photography, 2022
Massimo Avanzato, FIT Student
Doing laundry brings up so much for me: financial stress, anxiety, self criticism, feelings of frustration. My boyfriend, Daniel, and I have done laundry together the last year and a half of being together; it makes the process smoother and a little less stressful. The mundane can be beautiful. I took this photo of Daniel outside my apartment on laundry day, wearing the last shirt I had that wasn't dirty.
Photo, 2022
Dominika (Griffin) Sluszkiewicz, Binghamton Alumnus
"Obiad" is a solemn meal. I am an immigrant and I am queer, and those two things do not mesh together. There are some things you do not say at a dinner table. There are some things you cannot explain to the bodies sitting across from you. I majored in English—with Honors, how proud we all are—and yet how useless I am in my inability to speak, even while I have the words at my fingertips. And so I have recreated the corpse of so many mute dinners. “Moje imie jest” isa clumsy introduction, the literal but incorrect way to give your name, but it is the one I learned in America and the one I still sometimes use when I am flustered. And I am often flustered whenI introduce myself, in Polish or otherwise, because there is no name I can give that does not feellike a lie. Whether I name myself Dominika or Griffin, a woman or a man or neither, a failed Catholic or a failed atheist, I am lying and waiting for somebody to notice. There are some things that can be translated in ten thousand words—or sometimes, just three—but will not make it across anything less than mangled. They will come out ugly and warped, and so I sit and I write “moje imie jest,” over and over under watchful eyes and hope one day I will finish the phrase with the right name.
Photo, 2022
Dominika (Griffin) Sluszkiewicz, Binghamton Alumnus
"Obiad" is a solemn meal. I am an immigrant and I am queer, and those two things do not mesh together. There are some things you do not say at a dinner table. There are some things you cannot explain to the bodies sitting across from you. I majored in English—with Honors, how proud we all are—and yet how useless I am in my inability to speak, even while I have the words at my fingertips. And so I have recreated the corpse of so many mute dinners. “Moje imie jest” isa clumsy introduction, the literal but incorrect way to give your name, but it is the one I learned in America and the one I still sometimes use when I am flustered. And I am often flustered when I introduce myself, in Polish or otherwise, because there is no name I can give that does not feel like a lie. Whether I name myself Dominika or Griffin, a woman or a man or neither, a failed Catholic or a failed atheist, I am lying and waiting for somebody to notice. There are some things that can be translated in ten thousand words—or sometimes, just three—but will not make it across anything less than mangled. They will come out ugly and warped, and so I sit and I write “moje imie jest,” over and over under watchful eyes and hope one day I will finish the phrase with the right name.
Spring Chicken
David Mosier - NYS College of Ceramics at Alfred University
Obiad
Dominika (Griffin) Sluszkiewicz - Binghamton University
Mx FIT
Tyler Lormel- FIT