sh[OUT]: Contemporary art and human rights
Date: 9 April – 1 November 2009
Space: Gallery 4

The sh[OUT] programme was developed to promote understanding on LGBTI issues and included a series of events and projects which investigate LGBTI human rights issues through artists, writers and musicians.

The exhibition at GoMA focused on portraiture and self-portraiture about bodies, how they are different from each other and how differently they have been used. While the purpose is to discuss and question the state of exclusion of LGBTI people in the contemporary society, the show also explored love, family, marriage and partnership which are not common themes in contemporary art.

Following the sh[OUT] exhibition Memorial to a Marriage, Patricia Cronin (pictured) was acquired for Glasgow Museums’ collection and is currently on display in Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.

The catalogue for this exhibition is available to purchase from mybooksource

Artists: Patricia Cronin, Chad McCail, Pierre et Gilles, Sunil Gupta, David Hockney, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Deborah Kass, Ins A Kromminga, Holly Johnson, Sadie Lee, Nan Goldin,  Robert Mapplethorpe, Catherine Opie, Grayson Perry, Jack Pierson, Diane Torr, Del LaGrace Volcano

Links:
• Allan Radcliffe,The List
• The Skinny
• The Scotsman
• The Guardian ptI
• The Guardian ptII
• University of Leicester – Research Department for Museum and Gallery Studies
• University Of Leicester – Research Department for Museum and Gallery Studies Report
• The Herald
• Amnesty International UK blog
• Playing with Discomfort paper
• The performance of internal conflict and the art of activism – Victoria Hollows
• Question of responsibility Mark O’Neil – Index on Censorship publication
• Religion and cultural policy: two museum case studies – Mark O’Neill