Jimmy DeSana (1949, Detroit–1990, New York)
Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include the retrospective Submission at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, 2023; The Sodomite Invasion: Experimentation, Politics and Sexuality in the work of Jimmy DeSana and Marlon T. Riggs, Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, 2020; and Remainders, Pioneer Works, New York, 2016. In Summer 2024, DeSana’s work will be shown alongside that of Paul P. in the exhibition Ruins of Rooms at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin.

Photographs by DeSana can be found in numerous public collections including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.