2026 State of the Art Prize, Iowa

About Lorenzo Triburgo

Des Moines, IA

Lorenzo Triburgo is a trans*queer performance and lens-based artist working with partner and collaborator Sarah Van Dyck as the Van Burgo Collective to translate public, durational performance into queerly-coded, immersive installations. Their collaborative projects have been featured in museum exhibitions at the Gewerbemuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland; Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany; the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; the SE Museum of Photography, Daytona, FL; Photoforum Pasquart, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland; in addition to the Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, and Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, where their work is also in permanent collections. They regularly exhibit, lecture, and host arts as activism workshops at galleries and art spaces such as Kunst und Kulturhaus, Berne, Switzerland; Dutch Trading Post, Nagasaki, Japan; The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA; and Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, the Netherlands as the winner of the Pride Photo Award. Their curatorial work has been featured in the Brooklyn Rail New Social Environments series and their project Shimmer Shimmer was the subject of a feature documentary produced by SoMad, NYC (2023). A Bronx Museum AIM Fellow and Baxter ST/CCNY Resident awardee, their work resides at the forefront of trans*queer art and is featured in seminal publications such as GLQ, Art Journal, the Transgender Studies Reader 2, and Photography: A Queer History. Born and raised in the Bronx, NY, Triburgo currently lives and works in Des Moines, IA.

Lorenzo Triburgo is a trans*queer performance and lens-based artist working with partner and collaborator Sarah Van Dyck as the Van Burgo Collective to translate public, durational performance into queerly-coded, immersive installations. Their collaborative projects have been featured in museum exhibitions at the Gewerbemuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland; Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany; the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; the SE Museum of Photography, Daytona, FL; Photoforum Pasquart, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland; in addition to the Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, and Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, where their work is also in permanent collections. They regularly exhibit, lecture, and host arts as activism workshops at galleries and art spaces such as Kunst und Kulturhaus, Berne, Switzerland; Dutch Trading Post, Nagasaki, Japan; The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA; and Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, the Netherlands as the winner of the Pride Photo Award. Their curatorial work has been featured in the Brooklyn Rail New Social Environments series and their project Shimmer Shimmer was the subject of a feature documentary produced by SoMad, NYC (2023). A Bronx Museum AIM Fellow and Baxter ST/CCNY Resident awardee, their work resides at the forefront of trans*queer art and is featured in seminal publications such as GLQ, Art Journal, the Transgender Studies Reader 2, and Photography: A Queer History. Born and raised in the Bronx, NY, Triburgo currently lives and works in Des Moines, IA.