Anthony Goicolea is a New York based multi-disciplinary artist who established their career in the late 1990s with a series of provocative self-portraits. His work ranges from photography, sculpture, and video, to multi-layered paintings on Mylar and large-scale installations. Goicolea received a MFA in sculpture and Photography from Pratt Institute of Art. His work is held in many public collections, including: the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art, as well as the Hirshorn Museum in Washington, DC, the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, North Carolina, 21C Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York. Goicolea recently unveiled the first LGBT Memorial in the United States located in the Hudson River Park at West 12th Street in New York City.