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Bio
JC Gonzo (b. 1989, USA) is an artist, writer, and filmmaker currently based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and originally from Anthony, New Mexico. His work focuses on the convergence of cultural and ecological histories, often through a queer, metaphysical, and socio-political lens. Approached as a form of meta-ecological research, these bodies of work act as both documents and celebrations of chaos in the natural world.
From 2020 through 2023, Gonzo published the Southwest artist-showcase zine, Cuidado, for which he received a Fulcrum Fund Award in 2022. His work has been exhibited at the New Mexican Museum of Art and No Name Cinema. In 2024, he was an artist in residence at The Ranch Residency in La Madera, New Mexico. Gonzo has written reviews and interviewed artists for the Santa Fe Reporter, Sensitive Skin, White Fungus, and others. He studied art at the College of Santa Fe with a self-designed degree in Sexual Liberation as Art.
Photo by Daniel Ulibarri
Select Exhibitions
Don’t let the palm trees fool you, Modified Arts, Phoenix, AZ | Curators: Meredith Hoy, Miguel Monzón and Yvette Serrano | 2024-25
Ranch Residency Pop-Up, Hecho a Mano, Santa Fe, NM | Curator: Pearl Hesseldon | August 23, 2024
A New Mexican Burial, No Name Cinema, Santa Fe, NM | Curator: Justin Rhody | 2022-23 *
Alcoves 20/20 #4, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM | Curator: Merry Scully | 2020-21
In the Ruins of the Anthropocene, Ellsworth Gallery, Santa Fe, NM | Curator: Nathan Rubinfeld | 2018
Desert Flowers, Ellsworth Gallery, Santa Fe, NM | Curator: Nathan Rubinfeld | 2018 *
The Biological Auteur, Etiquette, Santa Fe, NM | Curator: Drew Lenihan | 2018
Queering the Lens, Sanitary Tortilla Factory, Albuquerque, NM | Curator: sheri crider | 2016
*indicates solo exhibition
Screenings
Liquid Form, No Name Cinema, Santa Fe, NM | Curator: Abigail Smith & Justin Rhody | 2023
Contemporary Artists’ Films in New Mexico, form & concept, Santa Fe, NM | Curator: Justin Rhody | 2023
The Virgin Viewed from Multiple Sides, No Name Cinema, Santa Fe, NM | Curator: Justin Rhody | 2021
Grants & Residencies
Ranch Residency, La Madera, NM, 2024
The Fulcrum Fund administered by 516 ARTS, 2022
Select Writing
A Moral Legacy in Vintage Pinups—The Klaw Archives, The Santa Fe Reporter, March 2022
The Art of Early Gay Erotica, The Santa Fe Reporter, January 2020
Queer Punk Mythology Becomes History: Yony Leyser Interview, The Santa Fe Reporter, October 2018
The Rise, The Fall, and Rise Again - A Review of the Memoir of Brix Smith Start, Sensitive Skin Magazine, December 2016
Automatic Writing as Performance - Ron Athey & Sue Fox Discuss 'Gifts of the Spirit', Originally published by The End of Being, July 2011, Appears courtesy of 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts