{"id":15175,"date":"2025-01-16T11:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T16:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=15175"},"modified":"2025-01-16T11:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T16:06:13","slug":"matthew-leifheit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/matthew-leifheit\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Leifheit"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2257\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-15175-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2025\/MatthewLeifheit.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2025\/MatthewLeifheit.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2025\/MatthewLeifheit.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15220\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15220\" style=\"width: 222px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15220\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/000044070009.jpg?resize=222%2C219&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/000044070009.jpg?resize=1024%2C1009&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/000044070009.jpg?resize=300%2C296&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/000044070009.jpg?resize=768%2C756&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/000044070009.jpg?resize=1536%2C1513&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/000044070009.jpg?resize=696%2C686&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/000044070009.jpg?resize=1068%2C1052&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/000044070009.jpg?resize=1920%2C1891&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/000044070009.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/000044070009.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Leifheit, Photo by Shala Miller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mattelife\/\">Matthew Leifheit<\/a> is an American photographer, magazine editor, and professor based in Brooklyn, New York. A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design and the Yale School of Art, Leifheit is Editor-in-Chief of MATTE Magazine, the journal of emerging photography he has published since 2010. Leifheit&#8217;s photographs have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Aperture, TIME, and Artforum, and have been exhibited internationally. His work has been supported by residencies at the Corporation of Yaddo and The Watermill Center, receiving grants from the New York State Cultural Council and the Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale, where he was awarded the Richard Benson Prize in 2017. He is currently full-time faculty at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Gay Archive was presented at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.union.edu\/news\/stories\/202409\/matthew-leifheit-gay-archive-view-visual-arts-galleries\">Union College<\/a>\u00a0Crowell and West Galleries and at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonartreview.com\/read\/matthew-leifheit-queer-archives-massart-bessie-rubinstein\">Massachusetts College of Art and Design<\/a>&#8216;s Brant Gallery in the fall of 2024. &#8220;Matthew Leifheit: Gay Chorus&#8221; will be on view at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/usfmfao\/\">REVERB Gallery<\/a> in Tampa, Florida through February 14th. Selections from Leifheit&#8217;s Gay Archive work will also be included in the <a href=\"https:\/\/griffinmuseum.org\/\">Griffin Museum of Photography<\/a>&#8216;s upcoming exhibition &#8220;Nuclear Family,&#8221; on view January 17th\u2014March 30th 2025.<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15222\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15222\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15222 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/001_Guggenheim-portfolio-2025.jpg?resize=696%2C464&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/001_Guggenheim-portfolio-2025-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/001_Guggenheim-portfolio-2025-scaled.jpg?resize=1920%2C1281&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/001_Guggenheim-portfolio-2025-scaled.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installation View of Matthew Leifheit: Queer Archive at Massachusetts College of Art and Design&#8217;s Brant Gallery, November 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15223\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15223\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15223 size-large\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/015_Guggenheim-portfolio-2025-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1638&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/015_Guggenheim-portfolio-2025-scaled.jpg?resize=696%2C557&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/015_Guggenheim-portfolio-2025-scaled.jpg?resize=1068%2C854&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/015_Guggenheim-portfolio-2025-scaled.jpg?resize=1920%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/015_Guggenheim-portfolio-2025-scaled.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Pfleiderer Body Hair Collection* (undated, collected prior to Pfleiderer\u2019s death in 1982) GLBT Historical Society, San Francisco, 2023 40&#215;30\u201d dye sublimation print with footnote.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15221\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15221\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15221 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/016_Guggenheim-portfolio-2025.jpg?resize=696%2C557&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/016_Guggenheim-portfolio-2025-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C819&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/016_Guggenheim-portfolio-2025-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/016_Guggenheim-portfolio-2025-scaled.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harvey Milk Underwear, GLBT Historical Society, San Francisco, 2023 40&#215;30\u201d dye sublimation print on aluminum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15224\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15224\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15224 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/003_Guggenheim-portfolio-2025.jpg?resize=696%2C476&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/003_Guggenheim-portfolio-2025-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C700&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/003_Guggenheim-portfolio-2025-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C205&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/003_Guggenheim-portfolio-2025-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C525&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/003_Guggenheim-portfolio-2025-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1050&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/003_Guggenheim-portfolio-2025-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1400&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/003_Guggenheim-portfolio-2025-scaled.jpg?resize=218%2C150&amp;ssl=1 218w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/003_Guggenheim-portfolio-2025-scaled.jpg?resize=696%2C476&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/003_Guggenheim-portfolio-2025-scaled.jpg?resize=1068%2C730&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/003_Guggenheim-portfolio-2025-scaled.jpg?resize=1920%2C1313&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/003_Guggenheim-portfolio-2025-scaled.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedro Zamora Gift Image, 2024 22.75\u2019\u2019 x 32.75\u2019\u2019 offset lithography on newsprint, edition of 1000 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