APOLO GOMEZ
Lives & works in Albuquerque, NM
Website: www.apologomez.com
Instagram: @ApoloGomez
Representation: Kouri + Corrao | Santa Fe, NM
Education
2018 Master Portrait Workshop with Catherine Opie and Andrea Wallace, Anderson
Ranch Art’s Center, Snowmass Village, CO
2017 Bachelor’s of Arts, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2016 The Projects Workshop with Whitney Johnson, Santa Fe Photographic
Workshops, Santa Fe, NM
2015 Cyanotype Printing, Toning in the Digital Age” with Daniel Coburn,
PhotoSummer, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Solo + Two Person Exhibitions
2025 Heartthrob, Kouri + Corrao Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2025 Departures That Brought Us Here, Vladem Contemporary Museum, Santa Fe,
NM
2023 Divine Immanence (with Delilah Montoya) , Sanitary Tortilla Factory,
Albuquerque, NM
2022 Exodus, Kouri + Corrao Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
2022 Don’t Think Twice, Harwood Art Center of Escuela del Sol, Albuquerque, NM
2017 Men I Know, Graft Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Group Exhibitions
2025 Queer Conscience, The Image Flow, San Anselmo CA (Juror: Brian Clamp)
2023 Artsy Foundations, Artsy, New York, NY
2023 12 New Mexico Artists to Know, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM
2023 ZonaMaco, Kouri + Corrao Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
2022 SCOPE, Kouri + Corrao Gallery, Miami, FL
2022 Wo/Manhouse 2022, Through the Flower, Belen, NM (Facilitated by Nancy
Youdelman, Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman)
2022 Annual Members Exhibition, Foto Forum, Santa Fe, NM
2021 Cuerpo, Secret Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2019 R U Looking, Sanitary Tortilla Factory, Albuquerque, NM
2019 Through the Flower Pop-up, on the occasion of Judy Chicago’s 80th Birthday,
Belen, NM
2019 300k Away, Gallery Fritz, Santa Fe NM
2018 Because it’s Time! Unraveling Race and Place in NM, National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
2018 Multi Caucus Exhibition, Society of Photographic Education National
Conference, University of Art, Hamilton & Arronson Galleries, Philadelphia, PA (Juror: Anthony Goicolea)
2017 Surface: Emerging Artists, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
2017 Multi Caucus Exhibition, Society of Photographic Education National
Conference, Orlando, FL (Juror: Renee Cox)
2017 Good Bokeh, Dab Art, H Gallery, Ventura, CA (Juror: Yessica Torres)
2016 Emerging Vision, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO
2016 Queering the Lens, Sanitary Tortilla Factory, Albuquerque, NM
Awards + Grants
2024 Fulcrum Fund, supported by 516 Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the
Visual Arts, and Meow Wolf Foundation
2023 12 New Mexico Artists to Know, Southwest Contemporary
Publications
2025 Analog Magazine, 25 LGBTQ+ Photographers to Know
2024 Headmaster no. 10, Echoes: Cheers + Queers
2024 Elephant Magazine, Judy Chicago and Massimiliani Giani in Conversation
2023 Der Groene Amsterdammer, ‘Wat kom je doen, man?’, Editorial by Pepijn
Keppel
2023 Southwest Contemporary, 12 New Mexico Artists to Know
2022 Viscose Journal vol. 4, Trans, published by the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art,
NY , Editorial by Francisco Galarte
2021 Southwest Contemporary, Vol. 3, Inhale Exhale, Curated by Julio Cesar Morales
2020 Fraction Magazine, Men at Work, Issue 137
Lectures + Workshops
2025 Departures That Brought Us Here, Vladem Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2025 Zine Workshop, Risolana, Albuquerque, NM
2024 Masters Lecture Series: Insights, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
2024 Masters of Photography Class, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
2024 Tracing ChicanX Queer Histories, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM
2022 PechaKucha: Multiplicity, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2022 Wo/Manhouse 2022 Panel, Belen, NM
2018 Cyanotype Workshop, University of New Mexico Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Professional Experience
2017- Present Studio Assistant, Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman, Belen, NM
2017- Present Programming and Curation, Sanitary Tortilla Factory, Albuquerque,
NM