Lorenzo Triburgo is a Brooklyn-based, multimedia artist employing performance, photography, video, and audio to cast a critical lens on notions of the “natural,” the construct of gender, and the politics of queer representation.

Lorenzo has artworks in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, IL, and the Portland Art Museum in Portland, OR. Lorenzo has been featured in Slate, Huffington Post, HuffPo-Live, and the Transgender Studies Reader 2 (Routledge). In 2019 Lorenzo won the Camera Club of New York’s Baxter Street Workspace Residency for Monumental Resistance:Stonewall.

Lorenzo has exhibited and lectured in cities throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia, including Bruce Silverstein, NYC; Photoforum Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland; Kunst und Kulturhaus, Berne, Switzerland; the Dutch Trading Post, Nagasaki, Japan; The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA; the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; Magazzini del Sale di Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy; and Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Lorenzo is a full-time Instructor of Photography and teaches Photography, Critical Theory, and Queer Studies for Oregon State University’s online campus and in the continuing education program at the School of Visual Arts. Lorenzo holds a BA from New York University in Photography and Gender Studies and an MFA in Photography and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts.

The curatorial project mentioned in the interview is - CRIMINALIZE THIS!

Monumental Resistance: Stonewall, photo/project credit: Lorenzo Triburgo and Sarah Van Dyck.

Monumental Resistance: Stonewall, photo/project credit: Lorenzo Triburgo and Sarah Van Dyck.