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The Palm Springs Art Museum will launch the exhibition A Queer Arcana: Art, Magic, and Spirit on March 28, 2026. It explores how queer artists across generations have used magic, esoteric spirituality, and occult knowledge as tools for survival, resistance, and world-building.
Bringing together work by 35 artists made between
1909 and 2026, the exhibition traces more than a century of artistic engagement with alternative spiritual practices as sources of identity, affirmation, and transformation.
Presented as part of the museum’s Q+ Art initiative, which centers LGBTQ+ artists and histories, A Queer Arcana asks how hidden or mystical knowledge has functioned as a cultural strategy. Drawing on the meaning of arcana—hidden, mystical knowledge—the exhibition considers how alternative spiritual practices have served as a source of connection, affirmation, and transformation for queer artists. Across generations, artists have turned to esoteric systems, divination, …
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Image Caption: Foto: Devan Shimoyama, Le Monde, 2024. Oil, colored pencil, glitter, Flashe, collage, sequins, and Swarovski crystals on canvas stretched over panel, 84 × 68 in. (213.4 × 172.7 cm). Courtesy of the artist and De Buck Gallery
