Rodrigo Valenzuela

Rodrigo Valenzuela (born 1982, Santiago, Chile; lives Los Angeles, CA) has a BFA in photography from the University of Chile, Santiago; a BA in philosophy from Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA and an MFA in PhotoMedia from the University of Washington, Seattle. His work has been exhibited extensively across the US and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include BRIC, Brooklyn, NY; Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR; New Museum, New York, NY; Portland Art Museum, OR; and Lisa Kandlhofer Galerie, Vienna, Austria. His work has also been exhibited at the Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA; Tufts University Art Galleries, Boston, MA; Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; The Drawing Center, New York, NY; Bemis Center, Omaha, NE; The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; artspace, San Antonio, TX; Center for Architecture and Design, Frye Art Museum, Henry Art Gallery and Jacob Lawrence Gallery, all Seattle; Tacoma Art Museum, WA; Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC; as well as in Austria, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Spain. Valenzuela has received awards and accolades, including an Art Matters Foundation Grant; Artist Trust Innovators Award; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Photography; Joan Mitchell Award; and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. He has been awarded artist residencies in the Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME; MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE; Lightwork, Syracuse, NY and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, Kingston, NY. He is Assistant Professor in the School of Art and Architecture at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).

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