Pride at Mia
Celebrate the exceptional historical and creative achievements of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community with art, stories, events, and more—curated by Mia’s 2SLGBTQIA+ Employee Resource Group. We acknowledge that Pride is a celebration of the decades-long fight—often led by trans women of color—that got us to where we are today.
June Pride Events
June 26 at 5 p.m. | Meet at Mia: Pride in Concert
Tours
Take a public tour of works in Mia’s collection that address gender, gender identity, and queer joy.
Take a self-guided Pride-themed tour, created by Mia’s 2SLGBTQIA+ Employee Resource Group.
About the 2SLGBTQIA+ Employee Resource Group
Comprised of staff from multiple departments, this group aims to create a space for employees to think about museum content and staff advocacy through the lens of the queer experience. 2SLGBTQIA+ stands for Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, asexual, +.
Explore the Art
Many queer artists are represented in Mia’s collection. Explore these works by artists who have publicly identified as queer and by historical artists considered to have been queer based on their biographies.
On View Now
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys
“Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys” is a groundbreaking exhibition that marks the first major showcase of the Dean Collection, owned by renowned musicians and cultural icons Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean) and Alicia Keys. Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, “Giants” highlights nearly one hundred significant works by Black diasporic artists, including Gordon Parks, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lorna Simpson, Amy Sherald, and more. The exhibition reflects the Deans’ passion for supporting established and emerging artists while fostering important dialogues about art, culture, and identity.
Past Exhibitions
The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989
March 23, 2024 – June 23, 2024
This exhibition features the first generation of artists of Korean descent to experience the new freedoms and rapid changes ushered in by democracy. Born between 1960 and 1986, they came of age in a time of transition, their work filtered through the collective memory of authoritarian rule in South Korea.
Networks of Care
January 13, 2024 – June 16, 2024
Acts of care can unfold in surprising ways, in surprising places. At work, where colleagues care for their collaborations. At bars, where strangers care for an impromptu community. At home, where artists may care for children and the muse in joyful, if precarious, balance.
Christopher Selleck: Body//Weight
March 18, 2023 – June 25, 2023
At the core of the exhibition by Minneapolis-based artist Christopher Selleck is a seven-year investigation into body image and the depiction of the ideal masculine figure. Selleck worked collaboratively with each model to present a more vulnerable version of the sitter.
Teo Nguyen: Việt Nam Peace Project
Teo Nguyễn: Giấc Mơ Hòa Bình
July 30, 2022 – June 18, 2023
Teo Nguyen’s solo museum exhibition invites contemplation and reflection on the Vietnamese people’s struggles toward peace and what the artist calls “the politics of worthiness.” Nguyen tells stories of heartbreak, optimism, resistance, and reconciliation that are interwoven into Vietnamese culture and spiritualism.
Podcast Episodes
Can You Hear Me Now?
Nick Cave is a young Black art professor in Chicago when, in the 1990s, he makes his first Soundsuit. A kind of musical armor, born of pain and pride and self-preservation. He’s now made more than 500, adding to the long and fascinating history of going incognito to truly be oneself. A powerful story of the lengths we all go to be both seen and heard.
American Illusion: The Wonderful Wizard of Iowa
In the 1930s, Grant Wood is one of the most famous people in America, the artist behind “American Gothic”—the painting of the man, the woman, and the pitchfork, standing outside their house. An artwork so celebrated and so curious it’s called the “modern Mona Lisa.” But as times change and jealousy spreads, Wood suddenly finds himself fighting for his life and livelihood, protecting a secret he hid almost everywhere but in his achingly quirky, queer art.
Pride Care Package
Pride Care Package
Art has the ability to make connections with ourselves, each other and our world. Practicing self-care and creating a healthy relationship with ourselves helps us better connect with and support others, and how we care for ourselves and each other in these times is essential.
Impact Stories
Mia is Inclusion
Pieter Valk rarely enjoyed art museums—until he came to Mia. Valk, who runs a nonprofit focused on LGBTQI issues, explains how he connected with people and ideas across the centuries through the art at Mia.