CULTURED Profiles 10 Queer Art Collectors for Pride Month

For Pride Month, CULTURED magazine profiles 10 queer collectors whose collections reflect identity, belonging, and personal narratives. The feature includes Bobbi Salvör Menuez and quori theodor, who amass objects from sidewalks and thrift stores; Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka, whose collection includes provocative works by Robert Longo, Andy Warhol, and Banksy; the Icy Gays (Rob and Eric Thomas-Suwall), who built a collection from Minot, North Dakota, now in Richmond, Virginia; Jeremyn Lee, a Thom Browne footwear designer with a museum-quality shoe archive; Brandon John Harrington, a Chicago-based Google DeepMind employee and board chair of Porchlight Music Theatre; Rodrigo Padilla, a Whitney Museum Drawing and Print Acquisitions Committee member, and his husband Elliott Trice; Matthew Harris, a self-taught jewelry designer whose collection includes Alexander Calder and Sterling Ruby; Chad Leat, a finance veteran with works by John Giorno and Wolfgang Tillmans; Ilan Cohen, who started collecting in Paris and focuses on queer figuration; and Everett Long and Fred Smith, who collect contemporary art with an emphasis on Black abstractionists. The profiles highlight how each collector's trove forms a portrait of contemporary queer life.