LUZ BLUMENFELD (they/them)

b. 1992 in Oakland, CA

currently lives and works in Portland, OR

luzblumenfeld@gmail.com

EDUCATION

MFA in Art & Social Practice | Portland State University | Portland, OR

BA in Interdisciplinary Studies | California Institute of Integral Studies | San Francisco, CA

UPCOMING

PROJECTS

2023 | More and More Often: a book of selected poems from the notes app and photographs taken on my phone ranging from 2015-2023 | designed, edited, and published by Luz Blumenfeld through KDP

2023 | Side Salad: A Re-enactment of Alison Knowles’ Make a Salad, with Raven (age 7) | Portland, OR

2023 | Do You Remember How to Play? | interactive soft sculpture | AB Gallery

2023 | Liminal Space in Oakland | one-page zine published at the IPRC, Portland, OR

2022 - (ongoing) | Riding in Cars with Dogs | Digital archive housed on Instagram

2022 | Tour Here Now | Collaborative walking tours led by Luz Blumenfeld and Becca Kauffman | Montgomery Street Plaza, Portland State University | Portland, OR

2022 | Artist talk with Moe | Assembly 2022 | King School Museum of Contemporary Art (KSMoCA) | Portland, OR

2020 - 2022 | Lex Poems | Digital archive of found text poems from the Lex dating app

2014 | On Tenderness and Toughness and Survival | Multimedia installation | National Queer Arts Festival at the San Francisco LGBT Center, San Francisco, CA

2009 - (ongoing) | Field recordings | Digital archive

RESIDENCIES

2019 | Center Residency, hosted by Marlee Grace | Grand Rapids, MI

PUBLICATIONS

2023 | More and More Often: a book of selected poems from the notes app and photographs taken on my phone ranging from 2015-2023 | designed, edited, and published by Luz Blumenfeld through KDP

2023 | Intimacy+ Voyeurism+ Public+ Private+ (Like//Alike Volume I): A Syllabus | PDF designed and edited by Luz Blumenfeld

2023 | Assembly 2023 Program | Riso printed at Outlet PDX | Designed and edited by Luz Blumenfeld with Marissa Perez and Olivia DelGandio

2023 | Intimacy and Ritual: Luz Blumenfeld with Miranda July | The Social Forms of Art (SoFA) Journal

2023 | Liminal Space in Oakland | one page zine self published at the IPRC, Portland, OR

2023 | I Learn a Lot By Asking Questions: Luz Blumenfeld with Olivia DelGandio, Morgan Hornsby, Ashley Yang-Thompson, Marissa Perez, and Caryn Aasness | The Social Forms of Art (SoFA) Journal

2022 | Public Space, Karaoke Practice, and How to Be Useful: Luz Blumenfeld with Lo Moran | The Social Forms of Art (SoFA) Journal

2022 | Assembly 2022 Program | co-edited and published with Olivia DelGandio and Caryn Aasness | Printed at Portland State University

2022 | Three Generations in Oakland: Luz Blumenfeld with Yolanda Ronquillo | The Social Forms of Art (SoFA) Journal

2022 | Collaborative Curation, Ethical Exclusion, and the Materiality of Nightlife: Luz Blumenfeld with Roya Amirsoleymani | The Social Forms of Art (SoFA) Journal

2021 | Process, Pop, and A/Temporality: Luz Blumenfeld with Alex Olive | The Social Forms of Art (SoFA) Journal

LECTURES

2022 | Whitman College | Walla Walla, WA

INTERVIEWS

2022 | Yuxin Sun and Abigail Partlow for Artist as Citizen class at Portland State University

WORKSHOPS

2022 | Visiting Artist Workshop: “Shards and the Process of Letting Go” with Laura Glazer and Mo Geiger | Whitman College | Walla Walla, WA

PUBLICATION CREDIT

2023 | Layout design and editing | Assembly 2023 Program

2022 - (ongoing) | Co-editor | The Social Forms of Art (SoFA) Journal