The MassArt Graduate Programs and Photography department are pleased to welcome Rodrigo Valenzuela as the first visiting artist of the Spring 2025 Photography Lecture Series. Please join in the Tower Auditorium at 2:00pm on Tuesday, February 4th.

Rodrigo Valenzuela (b.Santiago, Chile 1982) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, where he is the Associate Professor and Head of the Photography Department at UCLA. Valenzuela has been awarded the 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography and Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship; National Endowment for the Arts; Joan Mitchell award for painters and sculptors; Art Matters Foundation grant; Harpo foundation grant and Artist trust Innovators Award. Recent solo exhibitions include: New Museum, NY; Lisa Kandlhofer Galerie, Vienna, AU; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene; Orange County Museum; Portland Art Museum; Frye Art Museum, Seattle. Recent residencies include: Headlands Center for the arts: Core Fellowship at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; MacDowell Colony; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts; Lightwork; and the Center for Photography at Woodstock.