Roan V. Wade/ Collage Art

Roan V. Wade is a queer mixed-media artist, activist, and archivist based in New Hampshire. Their artistic practice blurs the boundary between art and activism, both by creating visual archives of resistance movements and by producing visual works—ranging from protest banners to zines—that are directly used by the activist organizations they are part of. Through abstracted archives, they document the daily contradictions of resisting surveillance capitalism from within the belly of the beast and aspire to reimagine alternatives by examining past iterations of protest movements. They often employ repetition as a framework for their pieces to highlight the way solidarity movements must engage in repeated acts of daily resistance, despite their Sisyphean nature, to generate change.