Collection: Alonzo Pantoja
Alonzo Pantoja is a queer, Mexican descent artist, educator and PhD student at Texas Tech University. He holds an MFA in Visual Studies in Fiber and Installation from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design; BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He studied architecture, design and art history in the Netherlands and Italy.
His work approaches weaving through site-specificity and exploration of spaces both formally and conceptually. He works unconventionally with fishing line often creating “looms” out of windows, doorspaces and tables. In 2024, he was a visiting artist for the University of Tennessee-Knoxville where he presented his most recent project “Corresponding Structures.” Pantoja has been featured in ARTnews, Textiel Plus, Hyperallergic, and Design & Living Magazine. Previously, he was a resident at Ox-Bow School of Art, and a Windgate fellow at Arrowmont School of Arts. He has served on the curatorial panel for the 2022-23 Minnesota Artist Exhibition Program at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. In 2023, he presented his first curatorial project, "Orienting Brownness" at Semillas Gallery in Minneapolis, MN.
He currently lives in Minneapolis, MN where he is an Adjunct Professor of Art and Design at Augsburg University.
