New York, Civilian Warfare Gallery, David Wojnarowicz, May 5–June 3, 1984
Lewisburg, Center Gallery, Bucknell University; Wilkes-Barre, Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes College, Contemporary Perspectives 1984, October 5, 1984–January 6, 1985, n.p. (illustrated)
Normal, University Galleries, Illinois State University; Santa Monica Museum; New York, Exit Art; Philadelphia, Temple Gallery & Tyler Gallery, David Wojnarowicz: Tongues of Flame, January 23, 1990–March 2, 1991, p. 126 (illustrated, p. 29)
New York, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Fever: The Art of David Wojnarowicz, January 21–June 20, 1999, no. 16, pp. 16, 137 (illustrated, p. 17)
New York, Martos Gallery, Hard Love, January 21–March 5, 2016
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (pl. 79, pp. 107, 149, 197, 365; illustrated, pp. 84, 196); Mudam Luxembourg - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night, July 13, 2018–February 9, 2020; then travelled as Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (pl. 65, pp. 73, 147, 246; illustrated, pp. 146), David Wojnarowicz: La historia me quita el sueño, May 29–September 30, 2019
Lucy R. Lippard, "Passenger on the Shadows," Aperture, no. 137, Fall 1994, pp. 18, 22 (illustrated, p. 19)
Robert McRuer, The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities, New York, 1997, p. 27
Cindy Patton and Benigno Sánchez-Eppler, eds., Queer Diasporas, Durham, 2000 (detail illustrated on the front cover)
Giancarlo Ambrosino, ed., David Wojnarowicz: A definitive history of five or six years on the lower east side, Los Angeles, 2006, p. 165 (illustrated)
Catalina Florina Florescu, Transacting Sites of the Liminal Bodily Spaces, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2011, pp. 125, 126
Hua Hsu, "Exit Art, 1982-2012," The Paris Review, April 12, 2012, online (University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, 1990–1991, installation view with the artist illustrated)
Cynthia Carr, On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century, Middletown, 2012, p. 251
Cynthia Carr, Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz, New York, 2014, p. 257
Melissa Harris, ed., David Wojnarowicz: Brush Fires in the Social Landscape, New York, 2015, pp. 12-13 (illustrated)
Margaret Morrison, "'Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid': The 'Dignity of Queer Shame'," Mosaic, vol. 48, no. 1, March 2015, p. 28
Zachary Small, "A Torch Song for David Wojnarowicz, Who Powerfully Documented the AIDS Crisis," Hyperallergic, July 13, 2018, online (installation view illustrated)
Maximilíano Durón, "David Wojnarowicz’s Art Continues to Resonate, But a New Documentary About Him Fails to Impress," ARTnews, November 11, 2020, online (illustrated)
Eileen G'Sell, "A David Wojnarowicz Documentary Honors the Gritty, Glorious Chaos of His Life," Hyperallergic, November 14, 2020, online (illustrated)
Cassie Packard, "David Wojnarowicz Brings Us Closer to his Real Persona,” Frieze, November 26, 2020, online (illustrated)
James Kleinmann, "DOC NYC 2020 Film Review: Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker ★★★★★," The Queer Review, November 27, 2020, online (illustrated)
Andrew Strombeck, DIY on the Lower East Side: Books, Buildings, and Art After the 1975 Fiscal Crisis, Albany, 2020, p. 51 (illustrated)
Douglas Greenwood, "A new documentary cuts through the chaos of David Wojnarowicz," i-D Magazine, March 18, 2021, online (illustrated)
Glenn Kenny, "'Wojnarowicz' Review: A Revolutionary Provocateur," The New York Times, March 18, 2021, online (illustrated)
Shana Nys Dambrot, "A New David Wojnarowicz Documentary Does Not Hold Back," The Village Voice, March 25, 2021, online (illustrated)
Noor Brara and Christine Ajudua, "Here Are 17 of the Best Americana-Themed Looks at the 2021 Met Gala Next to the Great Works of Art That (Probably) Inspired Them," Artnet News, September 14, 2021, online (illustrated)
Emily Garside, "Art, Fashion & Activism - Dr Emily Garside on Dan Levy's Wojnarowicz-inspired 2021 Met Gala look," The Queer Review, September 15, 2021, online (illustrated)
Chris McKim, Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker, Kino Lorber, New York, 2021 (illustrated, 37 minutes, 1 hour, 3 minutes; detail illustrated, 1 hour, 43 minutes; University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, 1990–1991, installation view with the artist illustrated, 37 minutes)
Oliver Lovesey, Popular Music Autobiography: The Revolution in Life-Writing by 1960s Musicians and Their Descendants, New York, 2022, pp. 152, 255