Guest: Kyle Quinn
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded on May 20, 2026
Raw Meat is an independent publishing house, art gallery, and bookstore based in Chinatown, New York. The project was founded in 2015 by artist Kyle Quinn, who continues to run the collective today. Raw Meat works with a wide range of established and emerging contemporary artists across mediums including photography, painting, sculpture, collage, and installation.
While the press primarily publishes artist books, Raw Meat also produces photography editions, exhibition catalogues for independent artists and galleries, and a wide range of fine art ephemera ranging from print to sculpture.
Their mission is to create space for and amplify the voices of LGBTQ+ and femme contemporary artists through the documentation and dissemination of their work. Raw Meat focuses on crafting visually compelling editions that explore—through a romantic and critical lens—themes of sorrow, identity politics, queer history, vulnerability, and subversion. Through exhibitions and publications, they aim to foster dialogue with audiences and encourage viewers to reconsider preconceived ideas surrounding happiness, community, identity, and sexuality.
Raw Meat is dedicated to supporting projects that might otherwise go unpublished—work that many institutions shy away from due to its rawness, intimacy, or vulnerability. These are productions that deserve an audience willing to engage with their power and beauty. Raw Meat strives to create books and exhibitions that inspire the current queer generation—artists, students, educators, and audiences alike—to create new work boldly and without fear.
Over the years, Raw Meat has collaborated with universities, museums, art book fairs, galleries, and curators around the world.
rawmeatcollective.com