Raw Meat is an independent publishing house, art gallery, and bookstore based in Chinatown, New York. The project was founded in 2015 by artist Kyle Quinn, who continues to run the collective today. Raw Meat works with a wide range of established and emerging contemporary artists across mediums including photography, painting, sculpture, collage, and installation.
While the press primarily publishes artist books, Raw Meat also produces photography editions, exhibition catalogues for independent artists and galleries, and a wide range of fine art ephemera ranging from print to sculpture.
Our mission is to create space for and amplify the voices of LGBTQ+ and femme contemporary artists through the documentation and dissemination of their work. We focus on crafting visually compelling editions that explore—through a romantic and critical lens—themes of sorrow, identity politics, queer history, vulnerability, and subversion. Through our exhibitions and publications, we aim to foster dialogue with audiences and encourage viewers to reconsider preconceived ideas surrounding happiness, community, identity, and sexuality.
Raw Meat is dedicated to supporting projects that might otherwise go unpublished—work that many institutions shy away from due to its rawness, intimacy, or vulnerability. These are productions that deserve an audience willing to engage with their power and beauty. We strive to create books and exhibitions that inspire the current queer generation—artists, students, educators, and audiences alike—to create new work boldly and without fear.
Over the years, Raw Meat has collaborated with universities, museums, art book fairs, galleries, and curators around the world. We welcome new collaborations and partnerships on future publishing and exhibition projects.
The Gallery & Bookstore is located at
45 Division Street
Second Floor
New York, NY
10002
Please email rawmeatinfo@gmail.com to schedule visiting hours.
Instagram: @rawmeatgallery
Visit the links below to explore bookstores, private collections, interviews and more.
Stockist
Adam’s Nest (MA)
The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division (NY)
Circus Of Books - (LA)
Culture Edit - (LA)
Dashwood Books (NY)
Exile Books (FL)
Hauser & Wirth (NY)
Miriam Gallery (NY)
Printed Matter (NY)
Swiss Institute / Printed Matter (NY)
Zeit Contemporary (NY)
Please read our I-D / Vice Magazine interview to learn more on how we started.