From the CoCA press release: “David Lloyd Brown is a visual artist, educator, and Coordinator for Graduate and Academic Programs at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Maura Reilly is the Elizabeth A. Sackler Curator for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Craig Houser, a Collaborative Programs Research Fellow at the City University of New York, is a freelance critic and curator. He was formerly an Assistant Curator at the Guggenheim Museum.”

Clearly linked to CoCA’s pioneering earlier exhibitions, From Media to Metaphor (1994) and Gender:Fucked (1996), Neoqueer demonstrated CoCA’s ongoing commitment to displaying art by LGBQT artists. Seemingly intentionally timed to coincide with the College Art Association’s presence in Seattle (at a conference, presumably), Neoqueer sought to bring marginalized identifies to the mainstream and as such anticipated much of the decade that would follow. According to curator Reilly, the exhibition “explored the complexities of contemporary queer art production by offering a broad sampling of work made by queer artists, be they gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer-identified heterosexuals.” The curators also formulated poignant questions, situating their work in the context of the preceding decades:

Must queer art production be blatantly political, as was often argued in the 1980s and 1990s? Or can and should we be satisfied with literal, metaphoric, or symbolic queer content? How does a queer transgendered body further the issues raised by artists who explored gender deconstruction that was so prevalent in 1980s and 1990s artistic production?

Reviewing for the local Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Regina Hackett observed that while the theme had perhaps been explored previously (e.g., by CoCA), it was nevertheless “eccentrically offbeat and oddly lovable.” The exhibition featured 45 emerging and established artists from the region and New York.

PDF of CoCA's Press Release announcing the exhibit

Exhibition announcement in CAA Newsletter (page 15)

Seattle Times review by Tina Potter

Seattle Post Intelligencer review by Regina Hackett

Additional Images found on archived website

Added 12/22/17

Ron Athey, Robert Beck, Nayland Blake, Kau[] Brooke, Tania Bruguera, Julie Burleigh, Loren Cameron, Tee A. Corinne, E.G. Crichton, Alejandro Diaz, Laurie Toby Edison, Daphne Fitzpatrick, K. Goodburn, John Groo, Barbara Hammer, Harmony Hammond, Lyle Ashton Harris, Karen Heagle, Bruce La Bruce, Glenn Ligon, Karin Luren, Sallie McCorly, Ann P. Meredith, Carrie Moyer, James Nadeau, Alexandra Opie, Uzi Parnes, Mary Patten, Sheila Pepe, Danica Phelps, Ernesto Pujol, Adam Putanan, Robert Repinski, David Addison Small, Mary Ellen Strom, Toxic titties, Carmelita Tropicana, Ela Troyano, Del LaGrace Volcano, John Waters, Patrick Webb, and Jonathan Weinberg.