Announcement
Killion Huang Joins the Collections of the Tom of Finland Foundation and Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
Two institutional acquisitions mark a new chapter for the Chinese artist’s work in the United States.
EDJI Gallery is pleased to announce that two paintings by Killion Huang have entered major collections dedicated to queer art and culture in the United States.
The Devil has entered the collection of the Tom of Finland Foundation in Los Angeles, while The World has joined the permanent collection of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York.
The two acquisitions mark an important moment for Huang, extending the institutional presence of his work in the US and placing it within collections committed to preserving and presenting queer artistic histories.
Both paintings come from Arcana, Huang’s recent solo exhibition at EDJI Gallery in Brussels. Across this body of works, he reworks familiar archetypes through queer bodies and domestic settings, retaining elements of the cards’ established iconography while shifting who occupies their symbolic centre.
The Devil reworks one of the Tarot’s most recognisable archetypes. Huang replaces the nude man and woman chained beneath the Devil in the Rider-Waite-Smith card with two unbound male figures, while the central figure becomes recognisably human. Desire and power remain present, but without the captivity and shame associated with the original image. Huang instead recasts the scene around queer male pleasure, presenting desire without treating it as a source of guilt or corruption.
Artwork details:
- Artist : Killion Huang
- Title: The Devil
- Date: 2026
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 180 x 145 cm
- Exhibition history: Arcana, EDJI Gallery, Brussels (2026)
In The World, Huang reimagines the final card of the Major Arcana. An androgynous figure occupies the centre of the composition, surrounded by the human, eagle, bull and lion of the Christian tetramorph. Huang preserves this inherited structure but gives its central position to a contemporary queer body. Set within a bedroom rather than a sacred or mythological space, the painting considers who is given the authority to occupy the centre of an image and how that visibility can be claimed.
Artwork details:
- Artist : Killion Huang
- Title: The World
- Date: 2026
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 65 × 55 1/8 inches
- Exhibition history: Arcana, EDJI Gallery, Brussels (2026),
That these two works now belong to the Tom of Finland Foundation and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art gives the series a particular context. Both organisations have played distinct roles in preserving, collecting and making visible queer art and cultural histories in the United States.
The acquisitions precede Huang’s first solo presentation in the United States with EDJI Gallery at The Armory Show in New York, where the gallery will present a new body of work by the artist.
We are very happy to see these works enter collections where they can become part of a wider history of queer artistic production, and to see Killion’s institutional presence in the United States continue to develop.
ARMORY SHOW 2026
Discover Killion Huang's presentation at The Armory Show 2026