Gran Fury

Gran Fury was an AIDS-activist artist collective from New York City consisting of 11 members including: Richard Elovich, Avram Finkelstein, Amy Heard, Tom Kalin, John Lindell, Loring McAlpin, Marlene McCarty, Donald Moffett, Michael Nesline, Mark Simpson and Robert Vazquez-Pacheco. Associated with ACT-UP, the group created the Silence=Death graphic, as well as provocative graphics that appeared on buses and billboards around the city and the nation in the mid-late 80s and early 1990s. Gran Fury’s archive is housed at the New York Public Library.