Prior to his untimely death in 1994, Hamad Butt completed and exhibited four significant sculptural installations which sought to forge new connections between art and science during the time of AIDS. His artistic practice explored his national, racial and sexual identity – as queer, British-Pakistani, Muslim by upbringing, and a person with AIDS.

This monograph includes contributions from esteemed art historians, curators and artists that look at Butt’s encounters with science and alchemy, his relationships with diasporic and queer communities in the 1990s, and his lasting impact and legacies. Filled with new reproductions of his installation work as well as previously unpublished paintings, drawings and writings, this catalogue seeks to firmly establish Butt as a major figure in the canon of international contemporary art.

Dominic Johnson is a writer and curator and Professor of Performance and Visual Culture at Queen Mary University of London.

Published by Prestel and Whitechapel Gallery in collaboration with IMMA.

First published 2025

ISBN: 9783791377704

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