Rodrigo Valenzuela

Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1982, he lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, where he is Associate Professor and Head of the Photography Department at UCLA. Valenzuela has been awarded the 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography, the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, the Joan Mitchell Award for Painters and Sculptors, the Art Matters Foundation grant, and the Artist Trust Innovators Award.

Recent solo exhibitions include the New Museum, New York; Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer, Vienna, Austria; the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene; the Orange County Museum of Art; the Portland Art Museum; and the Frye Art Museum, Seattle.

Recent residencies include the Core Fellowship at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; MacDowell; the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts; Light Work; and the Center for Photography at Woodstock.