From June to December 1989, Gran Fury installed their “Kissing Doesn’t Kill: Greed and Indifference Do” series on the sides of buses in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. The series showed three couples – a straight couple, a gay couple, and a lesbian couple – of different races kissing. It was…
In 1990, Gran Fury was invited to exhibit in the “Aperto” section of the Venice Biennale. They used this platform to criticize the position of the Catholic Church towards the AIDS crisis in a work entitled “The Pope and the Penis.” The work is made up of two huge posters hung next to each other. …
Gran Fury was an agit-prop artist collective that began in early 1988 and officially disbanded in 1995. The group used a combination of bold graphic design, guerilla dissemination tactics, sophisticated subversion of traditional marketing strategies, and visually striking confrontational works to spread medical and political messages during the AIDS crisis. The collective was closely associated…