2022      

Theses On Hope #5 fierce pussy, Between Bridges, Berlin, Germany

2009      

fierce pussy: Mining The Archive, The Lesbian Herstory Archives, Brooklyn, New York, Mar 15 – Mar
20, 2010

Gutter, Graduate School of Design, Harvard, Cambridge, MA, October 15 - December 23

2008      

fierce pussy, Printed Matter, New York City, April 15 – May 24

2026      

Chapter Nine: arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard,
Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy: amplified, with Jo-ey Tang, In Minor Keys curated by Koyo Kouoh
for the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2026

2025      

Beyond the Rainbow, The Bunker Artspace: Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody, FL

Chapter Eight: arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard,
Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy: amplified, curated by Jo-ey Tang, Participant Inc., NYC

2024      

Queer Histories, curated by Julia Bryan-Wilson and Adriano Pedrosa, Museu de Arte de São Paulo,
Brazil

2023      

Over the Rainbow, Centre Pompidou, Paris (catalogue)

Chapter Seven: arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard,
Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy: amplified, curated by Jo-ey Tang, in Exposé·es, Palais de Tokyo,
Paris, FR

2022      

Indisposable: Tactics for Care and Mourning, Ford Foundation, NYC

Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest, curated by Silas Munro and Stephen Coles,
Letterform Archive, San Francisco, CA

2019      

More Life / A focused presentation about the Silence=Death Collective, David Zwiner, NYC

F-bomb, curated by Maura Reilly, Daniel Art Center, Bard College, Simon’s Rock, Sept 5 - Nov 9

Still / Rise; Act 3, Arnolfini Gallery Limited, Bristol, UK

United by AIDS – An Exhibition about Loss, Remembrance, Activism and Art in Response to HIV/
AIDS, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Essex Flowers at NADA House, Governors Island

Altered After, curated by Conrad Ventur for Visual AIDS, Participant Inc.

Chapter Five: arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard /
Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified, ICA, Philadelphia, PA

Chapter Four: arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard /
Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified, Beeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design,
Columbus, OH

2018      

Chapters One, Two and Three: arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla /
Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified, Beeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art &
Design, Columbus, OH

We Dissent: Design of the Women’s Movement in New York, 41 Cooper Gallery, NYC

2017      

Art AIDS America, Alphawood Gallery, Chicago, IL (catalog)

2016      

Art AIDS America, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (catalog)

Art AIDS America, Zukerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA (catalog)

2015      
Greater New York 2015, curated by Douglas Crimp, Peter Eleey, Thomas J. Lax & Mia Locks,
MoMA PS1, NY

Art AIDS America, curated by Rock Hushka & Jonathan David Katz, Tacoma Art Museum, WA,
(catalog)

2014      

In Honor of Douglas Crimp, Daniel Buchholz Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2012      

CARNAL KNOWLEDGE: Sex + Philosophy, Curated by Christopher Eamon and Beth Stryker,
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, NYC

2010      

ACT UP New York: Activism, Art and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993, ACT UP Oral History Project and
fierce pussy, White Columns, New York City, September 8 - October 23

2009      

ACT UP New York: Activism, Art and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993, Carpenter Center for the Visual
Arts, Harvard Art Museum, curated by Helen Molesworth and Clare Grace, Oct 15 - Dec 23

Tainted Love, La Mama La Galleria, New York City, curated by Steven Lam and Virginia Solomon,
June 5 – 28

Then and Now, The LGBT Community Center, New York City

En Todas Partes-- Politicas de la Diversidad Sexual en el Arte, Centro Galego de Arte
Contemporenea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

2008      

Pink and Bent, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, NYC, May 21 and June 28

Break the Rules!, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany January 1 – February 2

1996      

Gender, fucked, COCA Seattle, WA

Counterculture: Alternative Information from the Underground Press to the Internet, Exit Art, NYC

Graphic Responses to AIDS, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

1994  

Outhouses, NY Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, New York City

Becoming Visible: The Legacy of Stonewall, New York Public Library, New York City

Underbelly: Dyke Art, Iconography, and Culture, University of Minnesota, MN

Silence=Death; Kunst und AIDS in New York, Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany

1993      

1920, Exit Art, New York City

Silence=Death; Kunst und AIDS in New York, Staadtmuseum, Munich, GR

Boycott Colorado, organized by Simon Watson, New Museum, NYC

DAM and fierce pussy, curated by Lutz Heiber and Gisela Theising, Liebenizhaus, Hannover, GR

1992   
   
Plakate, Graz Kunstverein, Graz, Austria , traveled to Moderna Galerija, Ljubljiana, Slovenia

Turn Out, Pyramid Club, NYC

Ethics and Aesthetics in the Age of AIDS, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany and Kunstmuseum
Lucerne, Switzerland

A Celebration of the Demise of the N.E.A., Public Funding and Art As We Know It!, benefit, ABC No
Rio, NYC

1991    
  
Outrageous Desire, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

From Perversity to Diversity, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Queer, Minor Injury Gallery, NYC

2010

Denniston Hill, Glen Wild, NY

2009

Lesbian Herstory Archives Residency, Brooklyn, NYC

1995

ArtMatters fellowship, NYC

2026      

61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2026 catalog

fierce pussy, Primary Information, New York City

Bijutsu Techo Magazine, April Issue, pg. 31

2025
The War of Art, Lauren O’Neill-Butler

2024
novembermag, fierce pussy in conversation with Adrianne Ramsey, Volumn 9: On AIDS

Artists Against The Bomb catalog

2021      
Ce que le sida m'a fait, Elisabeth Lebovici, inside front and back cover

Let’s Have a Talk: Conversations with Women on Art and Culture, Lauren O'Neill-Butler

2019      
ARTnews, Maximiliano Duron, The Most Important Works of the 2010s: Favorite Artworks That Didn’t
Make the List, Nov 28

ARTnews, fierce pussy Transmission 2019

ARTFORUM, Labor of Love, Lauren O’Neill-Butler on the Art of fierce pussy, Feb,
Vol 57, NO.6

UNITED BY AIDS—An Anthology on Art in Response to HIV/AIDS, Raphael Gygax and Heike
Munder (eds.), Zürich: Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst and Scheidegger & Spiess, 2019.
p. 161

2018      
ARTnews, Maximiliano Duron, Please Print Out Many Copies’: Fierce Pussy Releases Poster Urging
People to Vote, Oct 19

fierce pussy on activism and radical camaraderie, Lauren O’Neill-Butler, Artforum, Sept 29

them, Khalid El Khatib, After 27 Years, fierce pussy Is Still Making Inescapable Lesbian Art, June 6

ARTnews, Maximiliano Duron, Leslie-Lohman Museum Commissions Fierce Pussy for Window
Installation, April 27

2016      
Art Forum, fierce pussy Transmission 2016

2011      
The Queer Art of the Counter archive, Ann Cvetkovich, 2011, pp 32-35

2010      
ACT UP New York, 1987-1993: Activism Art and the AIDS Crisis (exhibition catalogue), Martabel
Wasserman, Harvard College, pp. 5, 8, 9, illus, pp. 4, 42-43, 49.

General Idea: Image Virus, Gregg Bordowitz, Afterall, 2010. pg. 94,103-104, 100 Illus.

Justin Bond / Jackie Curtis, Hilton Als, After Dark Publishing, illus. pp. 26-27

Goings On About Town: Art, The New Yorker, October 11

2009      
fierce pussy, Printed Matter, New York City

2008      
Break the Rules (exhibition catalogue), Lutz Heiber and Gisela Theising, Mannheimer Kunstverein,
illus. pg. 11, 63, 64.

Ful magazine no.2, illus. and article p.4, September 2008.

2001      
Fierce Pussies and Lesbian Avengers, Ann Cvetkovich, Feminist Consequences: Theory for
the New Century, Elisabeth Bronfen and Misha Kavka, editors. Columbia University Press.

1996      
Damn Fine Art, Cherry Smyth, Cassell, London.

Lesbians are So Chic, Laura Cottingham, editor. Cassell, London.

1995      
The Question of Equality; Lesbian and Gay Politics in America Since Stonewall, David Deitcher,
editor. Scribner, illus. pg. 85.

1994      
How many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?, Laura Cottingham, 60% Solution., Guest
Room, Paper Magazine, June.

Lesben Leben, Spinnen? spinnen? SPINNEN!, Germany.

Tempest in a Tearoom, New York Native, David Hirsh, March 14.

The Highs and Lows of 1993, Ms. Magazine, January/February.

1993      
SILENCE=DEATH; Kunst und AIDS in New York (exhibition catalogue) Hannoversch AIDS-Hilfe.

1992      
Provocation and Pride, David Hirsh, New York Native, January.

Angry Graphics, Karrie Jacobs and Steven Heller, Penguin Smith Books.

Der Spiegel 22/1992, “Die Wollust brüllt”.

Plakate, Grazer Kunstverein, poster and exhibition catalogue.

Movement Research Performance Journal, Winter/Spring #4, front cover illus.

1991      
Fierce Pussy Collective Wages War on the ‘Heterosexual Crap We See Everyday’, Bay Area Reporter,
David Hirsh, Dec. 19.

2026

Atomicon, MoMA PS1, September 12

2014

Activism, Art & AIDS: fierce pussy & GRAN FURY, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2012

fierce pussy, The Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice, Union Theological Seminary, NYC

2009

fierce pussy, Women's Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Camp Sister Spirit, Mississippi

Lesbian Herstory Archives, NY

New York Public Library

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England