Wojnarowicz created visceral photographic and mixed media works in the 1980s that confronted suffering, bodily vulnerability and political rage with raw emotional intensity, closely mirroring the confrontational mood and corporeal themes present in Bleed.

Serrano works extensively with manipulated and dye treated photographic prints exploring blood, bodily fluids and emotional extremity, sharing with Bleed a direct engagement with physical and psychological suffering rendered through altered photographic processes.

Kruger produces large scale multi panel photographic works from the same 1980s British and American contemporary art moment that address power, the body and emotional urgency, paralleling Gilbert and George's use of fragmented photographic grids to amplify charged political and bodily content.