About

Apolo Gomez is a visual artist based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Working across photography, painting, collage, and installation, his interdisciplinary practice explores queerness, Chicanx identity, memory, and mortality. His work often examines the complexities of LGBTQ+ experience, tracing the intersections of intimacy, community and history.

Notable projects include “Departures That Brought Us Here” and “Pleasure Closet”, originally presented as part of “Wo/Manhouse 2022”. These works investigate queer cycles of pleasure, guilt, shame, and self-discovery while reflecting on the ways queer history is shaped by cultural and social expectations.

In 2023, Gomez was named one of the "12 New Mexico Artists to Know" by “Southwest Contemporary”. In 2024, he received a Fulcrum Fund award from 516 ARTS, supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, for his research project “Tracing Queer Chicanx Histories”, which explores overlooked histories of queer and Chicanx activism in the American Southwest.

His work was featured at the Vladem Contemporary Museum of Art in Santa Fe in 2025 and has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including Zona Maco, the Colorado Photographic Arts Center, and the National Hispanic Cultural Center. His work has been published in “Viscose Journal”, “Southwest Contemporary”, and “i-D Magazine”, and has appeared on the covers of “The Green Amsterdammer” and “Elephant Magazine”.

Gomez's work is currently featured in “The Rest Is Drag” at 516 ARTS in Albuquerque, on view through October 2026. He serves as Assistant Curator and Program Manager at Sanitary Tortilla Factor soon to be GIZMO Arts in Albuquerque, NM. He also serves as a studio assistant to artist Judy Chicago and photographer Donald Woodman in Belen, New Mexico.