Luiz Bicalho (b.1999, Worcester, Massachusetts) is a Manhattan-based artist whose work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and found in private and public collections, such as the Rochester Institute of Technology. His most recent project, Harness From Here - Interfaced, lives in the seams where skin, symbol, and screen meet.
The exhibition is a diaristic, multimedia archive composed of moments of personal desire brushed against a position of vulnerability within state authority. 3D digital meshes of loved ones, altered currency, and laptops processing memory into ASCII text. These works explore the friction between systemic oversight and personal existence, documenting an American experience caught between the visual language of democracy and spectacles of societal control. Ultimately, the project illustrates how queer intimacy and vulnerability persist in environments designed to regulate them.
His work has been exhibited in the Jakarta International Photo Festival, Indonesia, Artly São Paulo, Brazil, As220 Aborn Galleries in Providence, Rhode Island, and in the MFA Photography Review Biennial at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY, sponsored by Fujifilm. He earned his BFA in Photography from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and his MFA in Digital Interdisciplinary Art Practice from CCNY. Luiz can be found working in his studio in Harlem, New York City.