Rafael Soldi, Soft Boy
Portland Art Museum Photography Council

Thursday, March 14, 2024, at 12:00pm

Portland Art Museum
1219 SW Park Ave
Portland, OR 97205
Trustee Room, 4th Floor in the Mark Building
https://portlandartmuseum.org/

Free and open to the public. (People are welcome to bring their lunch.)

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Rafael Soldi will share recent works—spanning video, photography, and printmaking— that unpack thoughts on how violence and ritual shape the formation of masculine identity amongst young men in Latin America. CARGAMONTÓN, 2022 Artist portrait by Carina Skrobecki Rafael Soldi is a Peruvian-born artist and independent curator based in Seattle (unceded Indigenous land of the Coast Salish peoples). His practice centers on how queerness and masculinity intersect with larger topics of our time such as immigration, memory, and loss. Rafael has exhibited internationally, and his work has received support from the The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, The Northwest Film Forum, Puffin Foundation, smART Ventures, Artist Trust, 4Culture, the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, and Center Santa Fe. He has been awarded fellowships at MacDowell, Bogliasco Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and PICTURE BERLIN. His work is in numerous institutional collections and has been reviewed in ARTFORUM, The Seattle Times, The Boston Globe, Photograph Magazine, The Seen, Art Nexus, and PDN. He is the co-founder of the Strange Fire Collective and co-curator of the High Wall. Rafael holds a BFA in Photography & Curatorial Studies from the Maryland Institute College of Art.

About the Photography Council:

The Portland Art Museum Photography Council offers its members unique opportunities to learn more about the history of photography with Julia Dolan, Ph.D., the Museum’s Minor White Curator of Photography. Council membership dues support the acquisition of photographs for the permanent collection. The members’ annual print share meeting, private tours with Dr. Dolan, and special invitations to lectures by renowned photographers are just some of the benefits of Council membership. The Portland Art Museum Photography Council’s Lunchtime Talk series, conceived in 2009 by Past Council President Jim Leisy as a means of introducing the Portland photography community to the wealth of talent and creative energy in our region, has become one of the Council’s most popular public events. Since its inception, the LTS has offered over one hundred and thirty monthly presentations by regional and visiting