Where the LA River Begins
Photograph by Arlene Mejorado
ABOUT
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Los Angeles County
Santa Monica College
Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery
Emeritus Gallery
Malibu Campus Gallery
Los Angeles Mission College
Long Beach City College
Los Angeles City College
Pasadena City College
College of the Canyons
South West College
Orange County
Cerritos College
Cypress Edouard de Merlier Photography Gallery
Cypress College Art Gallery
CSU Fullerton
San Bernardino County
Chaffey College
Riverside County
Norco College
Moreno Valley College
San Diego County
Mesa College
City College
Centro Cultural de la Raza
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Los Angeles County
LAMC AMP Art Gallery
LBCC Art Gallery
LACC WAMA Gallery
The Art Galleries at PCC
College of the Canyons - Art Gallery
LA South West College Gallery
Orange County
Cerritos College - Art Gallery
Cypress College - Art Gallery
Cypress College - Photo Gallery
CSU Fullerton Grand Central Art Center
San Bernardino County
Chaffey College - Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art
Riverside County
Norco College Art Gallery
Moreno Valley College Gallery
San Diego County
Mesa College Art Gallery
SDCC City Gallery
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Conceptual
Concrete Hope (SMC Barrett)
Thematic
Christina Fernande'z Legacy in SoCal (Cerritos)
Fem Landscape (Cypress)
Topographix (Cerritos)
Geographic
San Fernando Valley (LAMC)
Inland Empire (Norco)
TEO-Centro (SD)
Solo Exhibitions
Star Montana (LBCC)
Juan Valenzuela (SMC Emeritus)
Aydinaneth Ortiz (PCC)
Francis Almendarez (Chaffey)
Amina Cruz (LACC)
Devyn Galindo (Norco)
Antonio Pérez (MVC)
Sean Sarmiento (Grand Central Art Center)
Damon Casarez (SWC)
Two Person Shows
Monica Arreola & Jackie Castillo (SD MESA)
Jesse Maria Nakwisi Gomez-Villeda & Fedella Lizeth (SD City)
Arnoldo & Maricela Vargas (Cypress Photo)
Artwork by Raylene Olarde
CURATORIAL TEAM
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Erika Hirugami, MA. MAAB. MPhil
Curatorial Director & Professor
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William Camargo, MFA
Assistant Curator & Professor
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Karla Aguiñiga, MAAAP
Affiliate Curator & Gallery Director
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Alessandra Moctezuma, MFA
Affiliate Curator & Gallery Director
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Aydinaneth Ortiz, MFA
Affiliate Curator & Professor
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Mariah Green
Visiting Curator
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Fedella Lizeth
Affiliate Curator
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Juan Manuel Valenzuela
Curator & Instructional Assitant
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Victoria Garcia
Curatorial Assistant
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Steve Galindo
Affiliate Curator
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Patricio Chavez
Affiliate Curator & Instructor
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James McDevitt
Affiliate Curator & Gallery Director
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Michelle Ramin
9200 Valley View St, Cypress
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Janet Owens Driggs
Affiliate Curator & Gallery Director
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Lauren Ally Johnson
Affiliate Curator & Gallery Director
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John Spiak
Affiliate Curator & Gallery Director
Photograph by Hugo Amarales
Participating Colleges & affiliated spaces
FotoSoCal is a constellation of exhibitions that brings together over twenty community college galleries and affiliated spaces across Southern California, including Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, San Diego, and Orange counties, featuring the work of emerging Latine/x photographers and lens-based artists.
FotoSoCal’s axis are the shared experiences of brown individuals whose ancestral ties link them beyond the borders of the United States. Individuals often deemed Latinx. This project centers Latinidad as an ethnorace and seeks to linguistically acknowledge that 'Latine' and 'Chicanx' are loaded terms that weigh heavily upon our communities. We will, therefore, make space for every single complicated linguistic identifier of the members of our community, which includes but is not limited to: Brown, Mexican-American, Nepantlera, Mestiza, Indigenous, Chicanx, Mexican-Irish, Afro-Mexicana, Chicano, Latine, Undocumented, Oaxaqueñe, Yaqui, migrant, Guatemalan-Mexican, Salvadoran, Mexican-Filipino (Mexipino), Chapin, immigrant, undoc+, and Japanese-Mexican (Jaxican).
The language provided here is by no means comprehensive of the plethora of positionalities that make up this community. Still, it does begin to highlight the complexity of a people bound together by shared cultural experiences.