We are delighted to announce the opening of "I'm Never Alone," a remarkable solo exhibition by Golden. Join us on Saturday, October 28th, 2023, at the Beacon Street Gallery for the Opening Reception from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.

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“I’m Never Alone,” Golden’s debut solo exhibition, maps the artist’s connection to Black aliveness through their ecosystem of chosen & blood family over the past 60 years. This multi-medium installation brings together the fabrics of Golden’s award-winning self-portraiture series On Learning How to Live and their debut poetry collection A Dead Name That Learned How to Live. Exploring the languages of self & collaborative portraiture, family photo albums, sibling-made sculptures & fashions, visual odes & poetics, and the architecture of Black homemaking.

By elevating the mundane, the human matter, and our makers, this exhibition highlights the tension between home & history, friend & family, audience & company. Shrinking the miles & years between Hampton, Virginia, Pocomoke City, Maryland, and Boston, Massachusetts to showcase that Black queer life has always been here. Forebearer to our own nations, foraging our own forgiveness, finding freedom inside & outside the home.

Golden (they/them) is a Black gender-nonconforming trans photographer, poet, & community organizer raised in Hampton, VA (Kikotan land), currently residing in Boston, Massachusetts (Massachusett people land). They are the author of A Dead Name That Learned How to Live (2022), a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Transgender Poetry (2023), and the photographic series On Learning How to Live, an Arnold Newman Prize Finalist (2021), documenting Black trans life at the intersections of surviving & living in the United States. Their forthcoming hybrid poetry & photography book REPRISE will be released in 2025 with Haymarket Books. 

Golden’s published & collaborative work can be found on Instagram (@goldenthem_) or through their website goldengoldengolden.com.