Leon Mostovoy is a transgender artist who has been on the front lines of creating queer and political art for decades. His most recent projects explore transgender identity, sexuality, and gender roles in contemporary U.S. Society. His most celebrated art has been the documentation of the fight against the AIDS pandemic, sex workers, queer erotica, and women ex-cons. He creates art out of his own personal strife and the r/evolution of queer rights. His work is created to bring light to the dark and misunderstood as well as the beautiful, righteous people who have been cast away by society because of ignorance and fear.

Leon Mostovoy is a transgender artist who has been creating on the front lines of the queer and political art movements for decades. Formerly Tracy, Mostovoy started his art career producing erotic images for On Our Backs magazine in the early ’80s. Mostovoy’s most recent projects explore transgender identity, transformation, sexuality and gender roles in contemporary U.S. society. His earlier photographic series have explored the struggles and triumphs of women as they strive for strength and independence living outside the parameters of heteronormative expectations. His installation, Death of My Daughter, was shown in Romania in 2011 to encourage awareness and acceptance in/of their transgender community. In 2011, Leon presented his first retrospective, (My) Queer (R)evolution, at Temple University in Philadelphia. He has had over fifty shows, including solo and group photography, and multimedia exhibitions. His work from the ’80s and ’90s was inducted into the ONE Archives, the largest LGBTQ Archive in the world, accompanied by an opening exhibition in January 2015 of his ’87-’88 Market Street Cinema photography series. He has another project that has gained a lot of recognition called the Transfigure Project which was first created as a traditional children’s flipbook and photographic installation in 2013, then, launched as an interactive website in 2015, to promote accessibility in the trans community. Transfigure Project installation is currently exhibited internationally with a limited edition of 250 hardbound Transfigure books sold online and at various bookstores in Los Angeles and New York.