Artist Talk with Rodrigo Valenzuela
Thursday, July 30, 2020
6:00 - 7:00 PM PST
On Wednesday, July 30th SF Camerawork hosted an online artist talk with photographer Rodrigo Valenzuela. Rodrigo Valenzuela constructs narratives, scenes, and stories which point to the tensions found between the individual and communities. His work deals with themes of alienation and displacement, and he utilizes autobiographical threads to inform larger universal fields of experience. Often picturing landscapes and tableaus with day laborers or himself, he explores the way an image is inhabited, and the way that spaces, objects, and people are translated into images. His work serves as an expressive and intimate point of contact between the broader realms of subjectivity and political contingency.
Rodrigo Valenzuela, Barricade #3, 2017
ABOUT RODRIGO VALENZUELA
Rodrigo Valenzuela was born in Santiago, Chile. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, and is an assistant professor at University of California, Los Angeles School of Art and Architecture. Valenzuela studied art history and photography at University of Chile (2004), holds a BA in Philosophy at The Evergreen State College and an MFA at University of Washington (2012). Recent residencies include Core Fellowship at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Texas), Lightwork (Syracuse), Kala Art Institute (CA) and the Center for Photography at Woodstock (NY). Recent solo exhibitions include Screen series at the New Museum, NY (2019), Lisa Kandlhofer Galerie, Vienna, AU (2018), Work in Its Place, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene (2018); American-Type, Orange County Museum, 2018; and Labor Standards, Portland Art Museum, 2018. Rodrigo Valenzuela is the recipient of the 2017 Joan Mitchell Award for Painters and Sculptors,an Art Matters foundation grant, and an Arts Innovator Award from Artist Trust, Seattle, WA.
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