Charles Arnold Lecture: Rodrigo Valenzuela
RIT's School of Photographic Arts and Sciences welcomes award-winning contemporary visual artist Rodrigo Valenzuela for its Charles Arnold Lecture Series. He will deliver a talk at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 26, in Liberal Arts Hall's Lecture Hall (room A205). It's free and open to the public.
About Rodrigo Valenzuela
Rodrigo Valenzuela was born in Chile in 1982 and lives and works in Los Angeles. Working across photography, sculpture, video, and installation, his practice engages Latin American sociopolitical history, labor movements, and the lived realities of undocumented and working-class communities. Informed by his background in art history and philosophy, Valenzuela approaches image making as a critical tool, blending documentary and fiction to examine how individuals and communities are represented within systems of power.
Valenzuela’s work has been the subject of numerous solo and focused presentations at institutions and public sites. He is also the recipient of significant honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and awards from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. His work is held in prominent public collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Getty Museum, LACMA, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
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