/2023
May
On May 4th I will be screening Aqui Estoy Mama, a new three channel video installation along with images from a companion piece, Sempervirens, at the Exploratorium in San Francisco during their monthly exhibition program After Dark.
“Immerse yourself in Sempervirens - a work combining video and photography from Andres Gonzalez. During the days of sheltering in place, Gonzalez took to walking through his Vallejo neighborhood and one day photographed a lone sequoia near his home. That became the impetus for this work, which documents sequoia’s and redwoods throughout Vallejo, a reflection on their relationship to place and time, and despite their solitude in the suburban landscape, the ways their roots naturally reach towards those of nearby trees, often entwining to create support. Through video, Gonzalez connects this natural phenomena to human impulse and emotion reflecting on his own family connections across distance to find rooted systems of support as they say goodbye to a beloved matriarch.”
/2022
September
I’ll let you be in my dreams, If I can be in yours, a collaborative project with Carolyn Drake, on view in Jetzt: Magnum Photos, curated by Candice Hamelin at Stiftung-Reinbeckhallen, Berlin, Germany September 2 - November 27th, 2022.
June
/2021
October
American Origami Theater Project premiered at the Getz Theater in Chicago, Illinois on October 13, 2021.
Produced in collaboration with the Columbia College Theater Department and the Museum of Contemporary Photography.
American Origami included in American Epidemic: Guns in the United States at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Fall Lecture Series
Lecture in Photography: Andres Gonzalez
Wednesday, October 20, 6 p.m. CT
June
Sempervirens (Always Flourishing) on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in Close To Home through February 2022.
April
Review
Gonzalez knew that even these suburbanite Sequoia sempervirens survived in part thanks to the prodigious webs between them, some directly connected across adjoining lawns, and others, blocks apart, likely using the root systems of maples, laurels, yews—even ferns and herbs—as links, lifelines beneath our made world.
- Zak Jason for Wired Magazine
/2020
December
MassArt Fall Lecture
On Zoom and open to the public
Follow this link to learn more.
November
Fotograf #37
American Origami review by Andreas
Muller-Pohle
“If one of the major achievements of photography in the past decade is the development of investigative strategies for the elaboration and presentation of complex social issues, then this book is a brilliant example.”
- Andreas Muller-Pohle in Fotograf Magazin
October
Protesters Injured by Police
Shantania Love, a protester in Oakland, photographed for TIME Magazine.
September
Fire Science
Contributed to a story about climate science and the California fires for WIRED Magazine.
July
Border Work
California Sunday Magazine has published an excerpt from a collaborative project with my longtime partner Carolyn Drake about the US-Mexico Border.
June
For The New Yorker / Pro Publica.
Review:
“American Origami is not intended to create yet another parade. Gone is the decisive moment, and any chance of theatrics are instead replaced with quiet observation. Ordinary over spectacle. Memorial over moment.”
- Kris Koslowski Moore writing for Perimeter x Heavy
How We Quarantine
Thao Family Farm in Fresno, California for California Sunday Magazine - How We Quarantine
February
Review:
“Alongside the accumulation of information, Gonzalez uses his photos and texts to show that a kind of scar tissue grows up around the campus of a school shooting after the memorials and anniversaries have started to fade from mind and the reporters have retreated. Peel away the pages, and the wounds show through in a reliquary of objects buried below the surfaces.”
- Review of American Origami for The Nation, by Rebecca Bengal
Review:
“The book, unfolding and revealing its message inside, is an elegant solution to the precarious relationship of image and text, past and present, archive and documented image, all to reveal through the careful consideration of each fold, and turn of the page, the complicated issues and questions surrounding gun violence and school shootings.”
- Review in Strange Fire written by Kelli Connell
/ 2019
December
American Origami is reviewed in TIME Magazine’s list of Best Photo Books of 2019.
More reviews:
Blind Magazine - reviewed by Laurence Cornet
British Journal of Photography - reviewed by Allie Haeusslein
The Photo Book Review - Paris Photo - Aperture
The Collector Daily - reviewed by Olga Yatskevich
September
American Origami has been shortlisted for the 2019 Paris Photo - Aperture Photo Book Awards.
July
American Origami has been awarded the 2019 Light Work Photo Book Award. It will be released jointly by Fw:Books and Light Work in September.
March
PDN
Short interview with David Walker in PDN Magazine.
Interview and feature in PDN Magazine
/ 2018
October
I wrote something for the Virginia Quarterly Review.
July
My work is featured in the current issue of Contact Sheet with essay by Ken Schles.
I’ve also been awarded a Pulitzer Center Grant to finish the last chapter of American Origami.
June
Artist profile in M Magazine, Le Monde.
The Violinist
Portrait of violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja in New Yorker Magazine.
Interviewed on All Things Considered.
May
On tour with Pop-Up Magazine.
American Origami book maquette shortlisted for the MACK Books First Book Award.
Some(W)Here Reviews
2011 - 2017
Paul Loomis, American SuburbX. 2012.
Marc Feustel, EyeCurious. 2012.
Laurence Cornet, Le Journal de la Photographie. 2013.
Christopher Johnson, Photo-Eye. 2012.
Interview with Benjamin Thomas. Contact Editions, November, 2011.
New Yorker
Ahorn Magazine
A Photo Student
Unless You Will
Ain't Bad
Phases Magazine
Self Publish Be Happy
The Great Leap Sideways
What A Lot Of Birds
SeeSaw Magazine
Rebecca Horne Blog
Phot(o)lia