Lost and Found: Open Call
Oct 2, 2025 – Nov 6, 2025
This exhibition includes works by artists from across the US who focus on queer joy.
In this moment, as the US marks a decade since legalizing gay marriage, and when people in power insist on marginalizing, isolating and denouncing LGBTQ+ communities, LACP insists on elevating love and acceptance.
Selected Artists
Katie Adkins, Chance Allen, Faye Bryson, Louis Chavez, Retura Claar, Jeremy Colegrove, Shaohan Fang, Yohan Fernando, Lenny Gerard, Antonia Giordano, Julie Green, Maxwell Harvey-Sampson, Tomoaki Hata, Bienyl Huelgas, Ash Huse, Artur Jastrzębski, JJ Jimenez, Romeo Kulp, Morgan Lieberman, Allison Lisi, Caroline McAuliffe, Harmen Meinsma, Victoria Loren Miller, Zoe Perry-Wood, Robert Pierosh, Ioana and Daniela Groza Pop, Jack Ravi, Miguel Angel Reyes, Edward L. Rubin, Kurt Simonson, Cody Sooy, Sarah Stellino, Nathan Storey, Mason Weiss, Sara Werner, Michael Young
Jurors
Matthew Finley, Queer Artist & Dr. Rotem Rozental, Los Angeles Center of Photography Executive Director and Chief Curator
Opening Reception
Saturday, October 4th, 2025, 4-6pm @ LACP Headquarters, 252 S. Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA 90012 RSVP HERE
Exhibition Run Dates
October 2nd, 2025 – November 6th, 2025
About
In this moment, as the US marks a decade since legalizing gay marriage, and when people in power insist on marginalizing, isolating and denouncing LGBTQ+ communities, LACP insists on elevating love and acceptance.
We attempt to both imagine a world where no queer person feels ashamed for who they love and explore the nuances of human connection. This show seeks to highlight and demand visibility for LGBTQ+ voices, while celebrating an authentic experience of life, rooted in joy that is both specific to the queer community and universal.
This exhibition is organized as part of Matthew Finley: Lost and Found.
Jurors
Rotem Rozental, Ph.D, is the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Center of Photography. Between 2016-2022, she served as Chief Curator at American Jewish University, where she was also Assistant Dean of the Whizin Center for Continuing Education and Senior Director of Arts and Creative Programming. Her upcoming book, Pre-State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement will be released by Routledge Publishers in March 2023, and was named recipient of the Jordan Schnitzer First Book Award by the Association for Jewish Studies.
Rotem is a lecturer at USC Roski School of Art and Design Critical Studies Department. She mentors artists worldwide and contributes regularly to magazines, journals and exhibition catalogues. Her writings about contemporary art and image-based media, as well as Jewish and Israeli art, were published in Artforum.com, Photographies, Jewish Currents, Tablet and Forward, among other outlets.
Based in Los Angeles, Matthew Finley (b.1972)uses a variety of photography processes to communicate his life’s experience and form emotional connections to viewers. He addresses issues such as his coming out story, intimate relationships, and the healing power of nature.
Finley’s work has shown in solo and group shows in multiple galleries across the U.S. Most recently, his work was on the walls of the esteemed Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles with the likes of Herb Ritts and Herbert List. Other works have circled the globe as part of the FOTOFILMIC 17 traveling show and he has pieces in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, The Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, and the Center for Fine Art Photography. His images have also appeared in publications including Oxford American, Shots Magazine, and online outlets such as Lenscratch, among others. In 2024 Finley was awarded CENTER Santa Fe’s Personal Award as well as the Center for Photographic Art’s LGBTQ+ Artist Grant for his project An Impossibly Normal Life.
Price Sheet and Instructions for Purchasing Artwork
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