Dulce Pinzon was born in Mexico City in 1974. She studied Mass Media Communications at the Universidad de Las Americas in Puebla Mexico and Photography at Indiana University in Pennsylvania.  In 1995 she moved to New York where she studied at The International Center of Photography.

As a young Mexican artist living in the US, Dulce soon found new inspiration for her photography in feelings of nostalgia, questions of identity, and political and cultural frustrations.  In her black and white series, "Viviendo en el Gabacho" (a Mexican colloquialism for living in the US), she illustrates the dualistic phenomenon of the integration of the Mexican immigrant into the New York landscape.

This concept of dualism was further developed in "Loteria," where she captured iconographic images of the popular Mexican card game projected over the naked bodies of her New York friends and loved ones.   Her next series called "Multiracial" portrayed subjects of multiracial heritage against primary color backgrounds, with the purpose of exposing the frailty of our notions of race.

"The Real Story of the Superheroes" comes full circle to reintroduce the Latin American immigrant in New York in a satirical documentary style. Featuring ordinary men and women in their work environment donning superhero garb, the series questions our our definition of heroism and our ignorance of and indifference to the workforce that fuels our ever-consuming economy.

In her latest project, "People I Like," Ms. Pinzon creates studio portraits of people who fascinate her: Latino divas, rock stars, partygoers, drama queens and artists. They are part of what she believes to be a breakthrough and the future of the Latino cultural scene of New York City.
 
Her work has been exhibited at the Montclair Art Museum [2007], New Jersey;
The Central Library of Brooklyn [2007]; S-files of El Museo del Barrio [2007], New York; Queens Museum of Art [2006], New York; Museum of the City of New York [2006]; The International Center of Photography [2003], New York.
 
Her work has also been published and collected internationally.  In 2001, her photos were used on the cover of a publication of Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States."  In 2002, Ms. Pinzon won the prestigious "Jovenes Creadores" grant in Mexico for her work.  In 2006, she won an Honorific Mention in the Santa Fe Project Competition and she won the 12th Edition of the Mexican Biennial of El Centro de La Imagen. Ms. Pinzon was a 2006 Fellow in Photography from the New York Foundation for the Arts and is now participating in the 2007 Fall Session of the Bronx Museum's AIM Program. She is currently a Ford Foundation Fellow and lives in Brooklyn New York.

For more about Dulce and her work, click on this link, or go to www.dulcepinzon.com.