EXPLORING QUEER ART HISTORY THROUGH A LATIN AMERICAN CANVAS: With Ignacio Darnaude

About the Speaker: Ignacio Darnaude is an art scholar and lecturer, whose expertise lies in deciphering the creative codes used by queer artists to express their forbidden desires during repressive times. Mr. Darnaude relinquished his roles as Head of International Marketing for Walt Disney Studios and for Sony Pictures to focus on his project “Hiding in Plain Sight – Breaking the Gay Code in Art,” which includes a documentary in the works, articles, lectures and his Instagram @breakingthegaycodeinart Some of his recent lectures include “Don’t Say Gay – the Erasure of Queerness in Art,” for the Social Equity Conference organized by the University of San Francisco; a conference at New York Historical Society entitled “Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker” and the lecture “Picasso, Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dali: Revealing the queer themes in their work” for UCLA and the Cervantes Institute. A regular contributor to the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review magazine, Mr. Darnaude was recently honored with an Arts Grant from the City of West Hollywood for his 4-lecture series about the impact of queer artists throughout history.