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Lorenzo Triburgo
Born Bronx, NY. Lives and works Brooklyn, NY.
Education
2005 MFA Photography and Related Media, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2002 BA Photography and Gender Studies, New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York, NY
Exhibition Record
Solo and Two-Person Shows
2020 Shimmer Shimmer, Baxter St Camera Club of New York, New York, NY
2020 Monumental Resistance: Stonewall, Solo Show at Baxter St, April 2020
2019 Policing Gender, two person “Traces” show with Zora Murff, Dorrance Hamilton Gallery, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI
2017 Policing Gender, Bureau of General Services: Queer Division, New York, NY
2017 Transportraits, First Street Gallery, Humboldt State University, Eureka, CA
2016 Policing Gender, Center for Contemporary Practice, Kansas City, MO
2015 Policing Gender, White Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR
2015 Transportraits, Governors State University, Chicago, IL
2014 Transportraits, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR
2011 Transportraits, University of the Arts, Gallery 1401, Philadelphia, PA
2010 Transportraits, Portland Community College, The Helzer Art Gallery, Portland, OR
Group Shows
2022 The Horizon and Everything in It, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2021 If You Can Make It, SoMad Gallery, with support of grants from NYFA and City Artist Corps Grants, New York, NY
2020 Deliberate Acts: Art and Incarceration, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2019 Traces, (two person show) with Zora Murff, Dorrance Hamilton Gallery, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI
2019 Monumental Resistance: Stonewall, video screening at The Center, New York, NY, June 8, 2019
2019 Monumental Resistance: Stonewall, video screening, SpeakOut, a production of VideoOut, Brooklyn Brewery, Brooklyn, NY, June 27, 2019
2019 Gravity of Perception, Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, CO
2018 Signal Boost, three-person show, curated by Jordan Rockford & Rafael Soldi in partnership with Strange Fire Collective, Napoleon Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Society for Photographic Education National Conference Juried Caucus Exhibition, Curator Anthony Goicolea, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Disruptive Perspectives, Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago, IL and Photoforum in Biel, Switzerland
2017 Where We Find Ourselves, traveling exhibition, curated by Jordan Rockford, The Penn State Abington Art Gallery, Abington, PA, and The University of the Arts Open Lens Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2016 He, She, They, Ze, The Arcade Gallery at Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2015 Photography Faculty Exhibition, Fairbanks Gallery, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
2015 Mnemon 2015: The Value of Memory, Magazzini del Sale di Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy
2014 Callahan to Warhol: New Photography Acquisitions, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2014 Pride Photo Award Winners Exhibition, Dutch Trading Post, Nagasaki, Japan
2014 Oregon State University Faculty Exhibit, Corvallis, OR
2013 Framed: Identity and the Photographic Portrait, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
2013 Philadelphia Photo Arts Center Annual Juried Competition Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Mo-Wave Festival, Seattle, WA
2013 Wayfinder, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2012 The Curator, PDN Gallery at Photoville, Brooklyn, NY
2012 29 X 29, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY
2012 The Pride Photo Award Winners Exhibit, Ouede Kerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2012 Author and Subject: Contemporary Queer Photography, Photo Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
2011 Body of Work, Q Center, Portland, OR
2011 Share: Vistas of Community, GE Headquarters, Fairfield, CT
2010 SQFT, Traveling Exhibition, Curated by TJ Norris
2009 Queer Gaze, Fontanelle Gallery, Portland, OR
2009 Portraits, Worksound Gallery, Curated by Mark Woolley, Portland, OR
Artist Talks and Lectures
2022 “Shimmer Shimmer,” presenter, “Queering Contemporary Italian Cultures: Home and Beyond,” international symposium, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (virtual), April 1, 2022
2022 “Shimmer Shimmer,” artist talk, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, (virtual) March 10, 2022
2022 “Triangulation Shift,” presenter on the panel “The Trouble with the "Trans Tipping Point": A Critical Look at Trans Visual Culture Today,” The 110th College Art Association National Conference, (virtual), March 3, 2022
2022 Guest speaker, Institute of Contemporary Art, Young Artists Initiative, Miami, FL (virtual), February 23, 2022
2022 “Shimmer Shimmer: Trans*queer Glitter,” Art Now! Visiting Artist, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL, February 9, 2022
2022 Guest speaker, Advanced Photography Seminar, Professor Garth Amundson, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA (virtual), January 24, 2022
2021 Guest speaker, Gender, Culture and Media, graduate seminar, Professor Natasha Chuk, The New School, New York, NY (virtual), October 7, 2021
2021 Guest Speaker, Visual Dialogue, Professor Pierre Gour, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA (virtual), fall 2021
2021 “Passionate Creativity and Social Justice: Lorenzo Triburgo,” Social Action Works, College of Liberal Arts, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, (virtual), October 21, 2021
2021 “Gender Abolition: The Limits and Possibilities of Queer Representation,” Penn State Abington, (virtual), February 22, 2021
2020 “Shimmer Shimmer” in conversation with Sarah Van Dyck (partner) and Nadine Wietlisbach, Director of Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland, Camera Club of New York at Baxter St, New York, NY, October 24, 2020
2020 “MoCP Behind the Lens: Lorenzo Triburgo,” Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago, (virtual), June 5, 2020
2020 “Abolitionist Aesthetics: Necropolitics, the Carceral State and Trans-Queer Resistance,” Panel Chair and Presenter with Nicole Archer, Che Gossett, Eliza Steinbock and discussant Nicole Fleetwood, The 108th CAA Annual Conference in Chicago, February 14, 2020
2019 Keynote Speaker, Society for Photographic Education NW Regional Conference, University of Alaska, Fairbanks AK, September 14, 2019
2019 “Monumental Resistance: StonewalI,” Featured Storyteller and Video Screening, SpeakOut! Pride Event Produced by VideoOut, Brooklyn Brewery, Brooklyn, NY, June 27, 2019
2019 “Policing Gender,” Artist Talk, Dorrance Hamilton Gallery, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, March 2019
2019 “Policing Gender and Trans Representations,” Artist Talk, Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, CO, February 2019
2019 “Teaching for Inclusivity and Social Change,” Training for Art Department Faculty and Staff, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, CO, February 2019
2018 “Monumental Resistance: StonewalI,” Keynote Speaker with partner Sarah Van Dyck, One Iowa Leadership Institute National Coming Out Day Event, The Art Center, Des Moines, IA
2018 “Beyond Tolerance: Pedagogy as Resistance,” Society for Photographic Education National Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 2018
2018 “Save Our Children! That Sweet Sweet Pie in Anita Bryant’s Face,” panelist with Rafael Soldi, Garth Amundson and Pierre Gour, College Art Association National Conference, Los Angeles, CA February 2018
2017 “Vulnerability of the LGBTQ Community,” Panel Discussion for Disruptive Perspectives exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Photography with Jess T. Dugan and Dr. Vanessa Fabre, November 15, 2017
2017 “LGBTQI: Inclusivity Beyond Tolerance,” 3-hour workshop for the Society for Photographic Education NW Regional Conference, Corvallis, OR, October 20, 2017
2017 “Queer and Loathing: Policing Gender, Prison Abolition, and Anti-Assimilationist TransQueer Politics,” at the Queer Fear Festival, Berne, Switzerland, September 23, 2017
2017 “Art for Gender Liberation,” Artist Uprising Speaker at the Center for Identity, Inclusion, and Social Change, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, April 19, 2017
2017 “The Power of Transgender Representations,” Trinity High School, New York, NY April 10, 2017
2017 “Save Our Children! That Sweet Sweet Pie in Anita Bryant’s Face,” panelist with Rafael Soldi, Garth Amundson and Pierre Gour, Society for Photographic Education National Conference, Orlando, FL, March 11, 2017
2017 Panelist, “Strategies of Resistance,” Society for Photographic Education National Conference, Orlando, FL, March 11, 2017
2016 Policing Gender, Visiting Artist, Talk and Arts as Activism Workshop, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, September 27 - October 1, 2016
2016 Policing Gender:Trans Representations, Western Washington University Metro Arts NYC, June 23, 2016
2016 Panelist, “Can Images Counter Mass Incarceration?” in conjunction with the exhibit “Prison Obscura” at Newspace Center for Photography, Portland State University, April 2, 2016
2015 Policing Gender, Portland State University, Portland, OR, November 18, 2015
2015 Policing Gender: The Making of a Socially Responsible Conceptual Project, Society for Photographic Education Northwest Regional Conference, Choreographing the Image; Process and Practice in Contemporary Photography, Portland, OR, November 7, 2015
2015 Transportraits, Governors State University, Chicago, IL, October 8, 2015
2015 Transportraits and Policing Gender, hosted by Men’s Development and Engagement at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, May 18, 2015
2014 Transportraits, Artist Talk, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR
2012 Guest Lecturer for The Pride Photo Award Winners Exhibition September 30, 2012, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2011 The Medium of Deconstruction: Photographic Journeys in Gender Variance, April 27, 2011, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2011 Equality Forum National Transgender Panel, April 26, 2011, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Select Reviews and Interviews
2022 Cunningham, Danielle. “The Horizon and Everything Within It,” Daria Magazine, March 7, 2022
2022 Glasgow, Hamidah. “Q+A Lorenzo Triburgo and Sarah Van Dyck” Strange Fire Collective, February 3, 2022
2020 Feinstein, Jon. “The Celestial Complexity of Queer Identity,” Humble Arts Foundation, November 24, 2020
2020 Jansen, Charlotte. “These are the Artists You Need to Watch,” Elephant Magazine, November 6, 2020
2018 Brook, Pete. “The LGBTQ Voices Propelling Prison Abolition: In Conversation with Lorenzo Triburgo,” Prison Photography, April 2, 2018
2017 Dugan, Jess T. “Q+A: Lorenzo Triburgo,” Strange Fire Collective, November 2, 2017
2017 “Policing Gender: Transqueer Artist Lorenzo Triburgo Discusses Policing Gender with Sarah Gottesdiener,” No More Potlucks, Issue 48, Sept/Oct 2017
2015 Staley, Brandon. “Portland Photographer Turns His Lens on Gender and Policing,” Portland Monthly Magazine, November 5, 2015
2014 Sportiello, Christina. Resource Magazine Online, “30 Must See Photo Exhibits,” June 30, 2014
2013 “Ten to See, Framed: Identity and the Photographic Portrait” Aesthetica Magazine, August/September 2013
2013 Feeney, Mark. “Looking for answers to questions of Identity,” Boston Globe, September 9, 2013
2013 Brooks, Katherine. Huffington Post, Arts and Culture, "Transportraits: Lorenzo Triburgo Captures Powerful Images of Transgender Men," July 31, 2013
2013 Wei, Huo. "Transportraits," People's Photography Magazine, (Beijing, China), July 2013
2013 Nastasi, Alison. Flavorwire.com, "Renaissance-Style Portraits of Transgender Men," July 27, 2013
2013 Teicher, Jordan G. Slate.com, Behold: The Photo Blog, "Capturing the Courage of Transgender Men," July 9, 2013
2013 Smithson, Aline. Lenscratch.com, “Lorenzo Triburgo: Transportraits," June 5, 2013
2012 Harrity, Christopher. The Advocate.com, “Artist Spotlight,” November 2012
2011 Fallon, Roberta. “Unsung Heroes in Equality Forum Art Exhibits,” Philadelphia Weekly, April 27, 2011
2011 Phillips, Karin. CBS Philly.com, “Photo Exhibit at UArts Explores Gender Concepts Through Portraits,” April 27, 2011
2011 Nichols, Larry. “Trans Artist Renders Constructs of Masculinity,” Philadelphia Gay News, April 26, 2011
2011 Cofta, Mark. “Agenda Identity,” Philadelphia Citypaper, April 21, 2011
Awards + Grants + Residencies
2020 AIM Spring Fellow, The Bronx Museum of the Arts
2019 Camera Club of New York, Baxter Street Workspace Residency
2018 Tipping Points, Juried by Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Palmer Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY
2018 Society for Photographic Education National Conference Juried Caucus Exhibition, Curator Anthony Goicolea, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2014 Project Grant for the creation of Policing Gender, $5,000, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
2013 The Art of Photography Competition Exhibition, juror, Dr. Julia Dolan, curator at Portland Art Museum
2013 Philadelphia Photo Arts Center 4th Annual Contemporary Photography Competition Exhibition, jurors, Lesley Martin of Aperture and Andy Adams of FlakPhoto.com
2013 Regional Arts and Culture Council Professional Development Grant, Portland, OR
2012 PDN, The Curator Competition, Portraits Category, First Place
2012 The Pride Photo Award (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), First Place
2008 Newspace Center for Photography, Annual Juried Exhibition, Portland, OR
Collections and Publications
2022 Triburgo, Lorenzo and Van Dyck S., “Representational Refusal and the Embodiment of Gender Abolition,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, special issue Queer Fire: Liberation and Abolition, Spring 2022.
2021 Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, Permanent Collection
2021 “Critical Questions and Embodied Reflections: Trans Visual Culture Today—A Roundtable,” organized by Ace Lehner with Travis Alabanza, Nic Kay, Susan Stryker, and Lorenzo Triburgo. Art Journal, Winter 2021.
2020 “Photographers on Photographers: Lorenzo Triburgo in Conversation with Jasmine Murrell,” Lenscratch, September 4, 2020
2019 GLU Magazine, “Policing Gender” part of Chris Vargas’ MOTHA exhibition series "Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects.", December 2019
2017 Transportraits Catalogue, published by Humboldt State University, Eureka, CA, February 2017
2016 “Policing Gender,” All the Best, Alice, published by School of Visual Arts MFA Photography and Related Media, Spring 2016 issue
2014 Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, Permanent Collection
2014 Transgender Studies Reader 2 Website, edited by Susan Stryker and Aren Aizura, Routledge Publishing
2012 Photo District News, The Fine Art Photography Issue, Curator Award Winner, July 2012
2012 29 X 29, Juried Portfolio published by School of Visual Arts
2012 Portland Monthly Magazine, “Human Nature,” May 2012
2011 Portland Art Museum, Permanent Collection
Curatorial
2021 Juror, Montage Annual Juried Exhibition Competition, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
2020 2019-2020 School of Art + Art History Student Juried Exhibition, University of Florida, Gainesville FL, February 2020
2019 Criminalize THIS!: The Social Policing of Gender and the Criminalization of Queerness, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, July 2019
Current Academic Appointments
Full-time Instructor of Photography, Online
Oregon State University, Ecampus
Develop and Teach Online Curriculum for Art and Queer Studies
Gender, Sexuality, and the Photographic Image - Photography: Activism, and Social Change - Photography: History, Technology, Culture, Art
Instructor of Photography
School of Visual Arts, Continuing Education
Develop and Teach Online Course: Queering the Portrait