West Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Lorena Molina

Friday, November 07, 2025 @ 4:00pm,

Where Images Live: Photography, Place, and the Power of Presence

LORENA MOLINA is a Salvadoran multidisciplinary artist, educator, and curator. She is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art Practice at San Francisco State University and the founder of Third Space Gallery, which uplifts BIPOC artists through community-driven exhibitions.

Working across photography, video, performance, and installation, Molina explores identity, intimacy, displacement, and the politics of belonging. Rooted in her experience of migration during El Salvador's civil war, her practice engages spatial inequality and power dynamics through tender, critical acts of relationship-building.
Molina's recent work focuses on the margins as both sites of violence and spaces for healing, resistance, and dreaming. She holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota and a BFA from CSU Fullerton. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at select venues such as The Kemper Museum, Southeast Museum of Photography, Vox Populi, Artpace, FSU Museum of Fine Arts, EXPO Chicago, The Armory, SF Camerawork, Berkeley Art Center, and The Beijing Film Academy.