Thursday

July 24

8PM - 12AM

Class Size Max: 10

Join Peruvian artist Roberto Huarcaya for an evening of collaborative image-making on Penumbra’s rooftop and darkroom, where participants will create large-scale silver gelatin photograms.

Huarcaya is known for his monumental, cameraless photograms that examine Peruvian territory and culture, from the Amazon rainforest to the Pacific coast. To create these one-to-one impressions, he often ventures into the jungle or the ocean with a team, working on location to expose photographic paper to light.

In this hands-on workshop, participants will take part in one of Huarcaya’s signature “photogrammatic performances.” Together, the group will compose and expose life-sized portraits on light-sensitive paper, assisting with posing, flashing the paper with light, and darkroom development. Each participant will leave with a section of the collaborative photogram as a keepsake.

$55 materials fee included in tuition

If your desired tuition option is unavailable, please email info@penumbrafoundation.org and we will do our best to accommodate you. If the entire class is sold out, we can add you to the waitlist.

Roberto Huarcaya (Lima, Peru | b.1959) graduated in Psychology from the Universidad Católica del Perú, and studied Cinema and Photography at the Instituto Italiano de Cultura and Photography at the Centro del Video y la Imagen (Madrid, 1989). 

He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the US, Europe, Central and South America, and Asia, including the 6th Havana Biennial 1997; Lima Biennial 1997, 1998 and 2000; Primavera Fotográfica of Cataluña 1998; PhotoEspaña 1999; the 49th Venice Bienniale, 2001; 2014 Daegu Photo Biennial; Polyptychs, CoCA Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, 2007; Dialogues, MOLAA, Museum of Latin American Art, California, 2009; Mois de la Photo 2010, Paris; Biennial de Daugu 2014, Corea; Valongo festival 2016, Brazil. He is the recipient of many awards and honors, including the first prize in the Contest Imagen del Perú, organized by Unión Latina in 1991; the third prize in the Amor y Muerte Contest, organized by the Latinamerican Center of Munich, Germany in 1997; and was an artist in residence in the Cité Internationale des Arts in París, France in 1997 and 1998. In 2010, he won the Petrobras Award in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At the 2016 Venice Biennale, he won the secondary prize for national pavilions with the architecture curatorial team. He is an internationally invited lecturer, professor and portfolio reviewer. He serves as co-editor of CDI, Centro de la Imagen magazine, and Sueño de la Razón Latin American photography magazine. He was co-director of Lima Photo Art Fair, 2010 – 2017; and Photography Biennial of Lima, 2012 – 2014. He was a lecturer of Photography at the Universidad de Lima (1990-1993), at the Gaudi Institute (Lima, 1993-1997), and at the Centro de la Fotografía, now Centro de la Imagen (Lima, since 1999) of which he is founder and director. His work is part of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, the Fine Arts Museum of Houston, the MOLAA Museum of Latin American Art in California, the CoCA Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle, the Lehigh University Art Collection, the Art Museum of Lima, from the San Marcos Museum in Lima, the América Foundation in Santiago de Chile, the Wilfredo Lam Contemporary Art Center in Havana, and the Hochschild and Mulder Private Collection, among others.

Images © Roberto Huarcaya

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