
When I Put My Hands on Your Body
Catalogue
- Year
- 1990
- Dimensions
- 66 × 96.5 cm (26 × 38 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- David Wojnarowicz
Artist

Photography
David Wojnarowicz was an American artist, filmmaker, and activist who worked across photography, painting, collage, and text to create urgent political interventions. His practice merged autobiographical narrative with documentary urgency, addressing homelessness, queer identity, and the AIDS crisis during the 1980s and early 1990s. Working in New York, he combined found materials, spray paint, and personal testimony in works that refused aesthetic distance from social catastrophe. His films and installations remain defining documents of postwar American dissent.
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Record
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- David Wojnarowicz
- Year
- 1990
- Dimensions
- 66 × 96.5 cm (26 × 38 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1990-044523
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





