Nuevas Tierras | New Lands – Opening Reception

The Griffin Museum is pleased to welcome Rodrigo Valenzuela for a spring residency, courtesy of the Cummings Foundation. Beginning April 2nd, Valenzuela will work with Winchester High School students to create a site-specific installation in the Griffin Atelier Gallery, and outside behind the museum.

Join us in celebrating the installation’s opening! Valenzuela will be in attendance, and we will have light refreshments and libations. This event is FREE and open to the public.

All images © Rodrigo Valenzuela

About Rodrigo Valenzuela –

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; Joan Mitchell award for painters and sculptors; Art Matters 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: 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.

We are thrilled to have Rodrigo Valenzuela as our Cummings Fellow. Thank you to the Cummings Foundation for making this exhibition possible. This fellowship connects artists to our community engaging in critical dialogues about art and culture.