Queer@King’s is honoured to host legendary queer artist, activist and photographer Del LaGrace Volcano for an intimate journey through their archive. Most of the work to be shown—uncensored and unapologetic—has never or rarely been seen by human eyes beyond the decisive moment.

“I believe in crossing the line. Not just once but as many times as it takes for us all to cross over together.” DLGV

Del LaGrace Volcano (born California 1957) is one of the modern instigators of LGBTQI+ visual culture with a working practice that not only documents a ‘queer time and place’ but also acts as an iconic testament of resistance, capturing the love, lust, and burning desire to defy the forces that seek to destroy and diminish queer people. They have been making work about the queer cultural moments they have lived, created and photographed for the past fifty years. Their art has been shown in solo and group exhibitions around the world, most recently in Sweden, Germany, Finland, USA and Macedonia, and at the UK’s Hayward Gallery and Tate Britain. They are also featured in The Smithsonian Institute’s Great American Artists Oral History Project (2024).

Volcano has produced six photographic monographs: Love Bites (1991), The Drag King Book with Jack Halberstam (1999), Sublime Mutations (2000), Sex Works with Beatriz Preciado (2005), Femmes of Power: Exploding Queer Femininities with Ulrika Dahl (2008) and most recently QUEER DYKE CRUISING (Climax Books, 2025).

Top image: Del LaGrace Volcano. Image by Jorg Dedering, 2024.

Bottom image: QUEER DYKE CRUISING. Image by Del LaGrace Volcano, 1988.