South Central Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

O. Gustavo Plascencia

Friday, October 03, 2014 @ 1:30pm, STU 220

Constructing Photography

O. Gustavo Plascencia was raised in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila. Plascencia attended the Escuela de Artes Plasticas "Ruben Herrera" in Saltillo, Mexico before immigrating to the USA. He received his MFA from the University of Colorado Boulder in Photography and Media Arts and his BFA from the University of Texas at Arlington. Plascencia's work has been shown nationally and internationally including: Museo de las Americas (Denver, CO), Instituto Fotografico de Medellin (Medellin, Colombia), The International Center of Bethlehem (Bethlehem, Palestine), The Polytechnic University of Valencia (Valencia, Spain) Academia de Bellas Artes San Carlos (Mexico City, Mexico) Galleria Le Logge (Assisi, Italy) and the Raphael Mihailov Exhibition Hall (Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria). He is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Adams State University in southern Colorado.