The David Wojnarowicz Foundation

Portrait of David Wojnarowicz, 1984
by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Courtesy of the photographer.

Our mission is to preserve, advance and honor the legacy of David Wojnarowicz—his life, art, writing, and fierce commitment to social justice.

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“David’s voice, throughout his work, in all media, is clear, singular, monumental. When David screamed we listened and the enemy shuddered.” —Elizabeth Hess, Aperture, 1994

“Wojnarowicz is one of the more brilliant fugitives to land on this cultural island...” —Lucy Lippard, Art in America, 1990

“No figure of a similar stature in literature and art has replaced Wojnarowicz as America’s Rimbaud, though the search continues. ” —William E. Jones, Artforum, 2018

“David Wojnarowicz has caught the age-old voice of the road, the voice of the traveler, the outcast, the thief, the whore, the same voice that was heard in Villon's Paris, in the Rome of Petronius.” —William S. Burroughs, Close to the Knives, 1991

“He was...an acute observer of the unmapped region surrounding his heart and one of the best writers of his generation.” —Peter von Ziegesar, Out Magazine, 1999

“David had the eloquence and the anger that was appropriate to the situation of having AIDS in our society. He had the talent and the capacity to apply an equal force back.” —Kiki Smith, Out Magazine, 1999

“Wojnarowicz identifies himself and ourselves with the buffalo, pushed into the unknown by forces we cannot control or even understand.” —U2 liner notes, 1992

“David Wojnarowicz ...was his own best chronicler and the [AIDS] epidemic’s visionary witness. Seeing the larger meaning of each life, each death, came so naturally to him. His paintings found the universe in a grain of sand.” ——C. Carr, Village Voice 1996

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MEETDavid

EXPLOREHis Art

EXPLOREHis Writing

LEARNAbout His Life

LISTENTo Interviews

MEET
David

EXPLORE
His Art

EXPLORE
His Writing

LEARN
About His Life

LISTEN
To Interviews