Ted Kerr

Canadian born Theodore Kerr is a Brooklyn based writer, organizer and artist whose work focuses on HIV/AIDS, community, and culture. Creating postcards, posters, stickers, and collages, Kerr’s art practice is about bringing together pop culture, photography and text to create fun and meaningful shareable ephemera and images. Kerr’s writing has appeared in Women’s Studies Quarterly, The New Inquiry, BOMB, CBC (Canada), Lambda Literary, POZ Magazine, The Advocate, Cineaste, The St. Louis American, IndieWire, HyperAllergic, and other publications.

Kerr is a founding member of the What Would An HIV Doula Do? collective, a community of people committed to better implicating community within the ongoing response to HIV/AIDS. Kerr was the programs manager at Visual AIDS where he worked to ensure social justice was an important lens through which to understand the ongoing epidemic. He also served as the programs manager at the Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary. Kerr earned his MA from Union Theological Seminary and his BA from the New School. Currently, Kerr teaches at The New School. He has lectured at Hunter College, Rutgers and Skidmore College.