about
Louis Chavez is an artist and curator based in Rochester, New York. Their creative and research interests include queer activism and art practices, conceptual modes in photography, experimental cinema, and artist's books. Chavez is a recipient of the 2025 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Photography from The New York Foundation for the Arts and the 2025 Joy of Giving Something (JGS) Fellowship for Photography. Their work has been featured in Der Greif, Contact Sheet, and Contrafotografía, and included in exhibitions at The Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY (2025), Light Work, Syracuse, NY (2024), Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, China (2023), PeepSpace, Tarrytown, NY (2023), Le Petit Versailles, New York, NY (2022), The Harnett Gallery at the University of Rochester (2021), and The Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA (2020). Chavez was a selected participant in the 2024 Impromptu Photobook Workshop, hosted by the independent photography publisher Void, and a 2023 Project Space artist-in-residence at Visual Studies Workshop. In addition to their visual arts practice, Chavez is a Curatorial Associate in the Department of Photography at the George Eastman Museum and serves on the Board of Directors for the Society for Photographic Education. Chavez holds an M.F.A. in Photography and Related Media from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a B.S. from SUNY Brockport.
