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Rodrigo Valenzuela, Santiago, Chile 1982. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. where he is an assistant professor at University of California, Los Angeles School of Art and Architecture. Valenzuela studied art history and photography at University of Chile (2004), holds a BA in Philosophy at The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA (2010) and an MFA at University of Washington, Seattle, WA (2012). Recent residencies include Core Fellowship at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, ME, MacDowell Colony, NH, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, NE, Light Work, NY, Vermont Studio Center, VT, Kala Art Institute, CA and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY.
Recent solo exhibitions include Screen Series at the New Museum, NY (2019), Lisa Kandlhofer Galerie, Vienna, Austria (2018), Work in Its Place, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR (2018); American-Type, Orange County Museum, Santa Ana, CA 2018; Labor Standards, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 2018; New Land, McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Charlotte, NC, 2017; Prole, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS 2016; Future Ruins, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA 2015. Rodrigo Valenzuela is the recipient of the 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography, 2017 Joan Mitchell award for painters and sculptors, Art Matters Foundation grant and Arts Innovator Award, Seattle, WA.