Weekend Portfolio: Mickey Aloisio

Images and text by Mickey Aloisio

Mickey Aloisio is a visual artist from Long Island, NY, who’s currently based in New Haven, CT. He received his BFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology and his MFA from the School of Art at Yale University. Aloisio’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Aloisio is the recipient of the Critical Practice Research Fellowship and the Alice Kimball English Travelling Fellowship, both awarded by the Yale School of Art, as well as the Pride Photo Award Open Category First Prize in Amsterdam, NL. Beginning this September, Aloisio will participate in the Core Fellowship Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Aloisio’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.

My work explores how the spaces of queer interactions have changed as a result of a shifting Western consciousness and the role of technology and capitalism within our desires. Through video, sound, photography, and alternative analog technologies, I explore themes such as fantasy, fetish, longing, and nostalgia. I’m interested in questioning the loss of corporeal anticipation within contemporary queer culture as a consequence of the homogenization of interaction through online dating and hookup practices. My current work seeks out where this anticipation still exists.

You can find more of Mickey Aloisio’s work on his website.