Avram Finkelstein

Avram Finkelstein, Art Director, is an artist and writer from Brooklyn, NY.

He is a founding member of the Silence=Death and Gran Fury collectives. His work has shown at MoMA, the Whitney Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, the Hirshhorn, PS1, the Brooklyn Museum, David Zwirner, and Smack Mellon, and is in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Whitney, the New Museum, the Metropolitan, and the Brooklyn Museum.

He is a 2024 Creative Capital Grant Recipient, a 2023 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Recipient, has received commissions from the New York City AIDS Memorial, The Shed, For Freedoms, and the Public Art Fund, and is featured in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.

His book for UC Press, After Silence: A History of AIDS Through its Images was nominated for an International Center Of Photography 2018 Infinity Award in Critical Writing. He has been interviewed by The New York Times, Frieze, Artforum, NPR, Slate, and Interview, and spoken at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and NYU. He has done production design for numerous narrative and documentary films.