Steven Hector Gonzalez

stevenhgonzalez.net | stevenhgonzalez@gmail.com | @bad.trade

Steven Hector Gonzalez is a Dallas, Texas-based multidisciplinary artist. He holds an MFA in Studio Arts from Southern Methodist University and graduated with a BFA in Video and Sound Art from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. His work has been exhibited nationally as well as internationally in group exhibitions such as April Meetings, Belgrade; Video! Video! Zine Video Festival, Chicago; Pure Surface, Portland; CARNALISMX COLLECTIVE, San Antonio, and Queer Me Now, Dallas.

Steven's practice is an exploration of self primarily through image-making and performance, both of which contribute to holding space for personal reflection on queer experiences. In negotiating queerness through a Latinx lens, he often looks critically at the permeation of the idealized-white-masculine figure found within culturally influential spaces such as film, online social media platforms, and pornography. His current focus is placed on defining how the ideal is reified through these varying forms of media and the social implications the homogenized male form has on raced individuals. In addition to examining how the perceived ideal figure is represented in media, he is also looking at how the Latinx body is frequently depicted in contrast. Through his multidisciplinary practice, Steven broadly locates his layered identity in close proximity to themes of longing, resistance, and desire.