Where the LA River Begins

Photograph by Arlene Mejorado

ABOUT

  • 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

    • Media Arts Santa Ana

    San Bernardino County

    • Chaffey College

    Riverside County

    • Norco College

    • Moreno Valley College

    San Diego County

    • Mesa College

    • City College

    • Centro Cultural de la Raza

  • Los Angeles County

    Orange County

    San Bernardino County

    Riverside County

    San Diego County

  • 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

  • Erika Hirugami, MA. MAAB. MPhil

    Curatorial Director & Professor

  • William Camargo, MFA

    Assistant Curator & Professor

  • Karla Aguiñiga, MAAAP

    Affiliate Curator & Gallery Director

  • Alessandra Moctezuma, MFA

    Affiliate Curator & Gallery Director

  • Aydinaneth Ortiz, MFA

    Affiliate Curator & Professor

  • Mariah Green

    Visiting Curator

  • Fedella Lizeth

    Affiliate Curator

  • Juan Manuel Valenzuela

    Curator & Instructional Assitant

  • Victoria Garcia

    Curatorial Assistant

  • Steve Galindo

    Affiliate Curator

  • Patricio Chavez

    Affiliate Curator & Instructor

  • James McDevitt

    Affiliate Curator & Gallery Director

  • Michelle Ramin

    9200 Valley View St, Cypress

  • Janet Owens Driggs

    Affiliate Curator & Gallery Director

  • Lauren Ally Johnson

    Affiliate Curator & Gallery Director

  • John Spiak

    Affiliate Curator & Gallery Director

Photograph by Hugo Amarales

Participating Colleges & affiliated spaces

  • SMC
  • Emeritus
  • Mission
  • lbcc
  • LACC
  • Cerritos
  • Cypress
  • Chaffey
  • NORCO
  • MVC
  • SDMC

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.