Pride Gallery

It’s a rare thing to have a space dedicated to LGBTIQ+ culture and it is with immense excitement that we launch the visual arts program in the Pride Gallery. The Victorian Pride Centre provides opportunities for visual arts and archival exhibitions and displays that focus on art by LGBTIQ+ artists and/or art that focuses on LGBTIQ+ issues. See our current and upcoming exhibitions and an archive of past works below.

An Andrew Goodman print, featuring animations and text with the title 'Once a year, on a full moon in spring, all adults face the sky and in one night of collective ecstasy release spores that float into the sky.
Current Exhibition

Rainbow Universes

Inspired by Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness and trans biologist Joan Roughgarden’s exploration of biological diversity in Evolution's Rainbow, these Riso prints conjures parallel, rainbow-tinged universes in which human gender and sex are diversely configured. Imagined as a series of fabulated anthropological reports from these worlds, the work explores joyous, queerer and more-than-human modes of living. 

12 November 2025 – 8 January 2026.
Upcoming Exhibition

Tableaux

This is an extraordinary photographic exhibition reflects the powerful collaboration between two artistic queer practitioners and soul mates Gerard O’Connor and Marc Wasiak which commenced in the mid-1990s. O’Connor a film maker/photographer and Wasiak a set designer/prop-maker are both acclaimed in their fields and together they constructed complex and large-scale images exploring the peculiarities of human behaviour and our changing social mores.

11 June – 19 July 2026
Pride in Sports photo of a group of six people holding surf boards and smiling enthusiastically towards the camera. They all wear Surf Rescue shorts and hold boards with rainbow printing towards the base.
Past Exhibition

Sport with Pride and Joy

A pictorial representation of the people behind the many Pride rounds, games and tournaments and LGBTIQA+ sporting clubs featured on Game On! across two seasons. ‘Game On!’ is a sport show on JOY 94.9fm. Each week the show focuses on showcasing where sport is welcoming, inclusive, safe and fun for the Rainbow community. There is no shortage of exciting stories of where the sporting landscape is evolving to be a place where the LGBTIQA+ community can shine. 

6 August – 22 September, 2025
Past Exhibition

male//chair

We're excited to announce our next major exhibition – 'male//chair’ – by Melbourne artist garrie maguire. This photographic exhibition will show in the Pride Gallery as part of VPC's visual arts program from March 6 to April 28, 2024.

This photographic exhibition employs a simple set up, where each individual sits stripped of conventional gender or status signifiers, with a red kitchen chair. The camera serves as the audience, capturing the essence of each participant's raw presentation. No names, no identities—just pure expression.

March - April 2024