About

Apolo Gomez is a visual artist based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His interdisciplinary practice explores queerness, Latinx identity, desire, and Mortality. Notable works include Phantoms of History: Queer Erasure, and Pleasure Closet from Wo/Manhouse 2022, which addresses queer cycles of pleasure, guilt, and shame.

In 2023, Apolo was named one of the 12 New Mexico Artists to Know by Southwest Contemporary. In 2024 he was awarded the Fulcrum Fund by 516 Arts, supplemented by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Meow Wolf Foundation for his project Tracing Chicano and Gay Rights Movements Through Art.

His work was recently selected by the New Mexico Museum of Art for the Window Box project and will be on display at the Vladum Contemporary in Santa Fe in the spring of 2025. His work has been exhibited internationally at ZonaMaco, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, 516 Arts, and the National Hispanic Cultural Center. He has been published in Viscose Journal, Southwest Contemporary, I-D, and featured on the covers of Elephant Magazine and The Green Amsterdammer. He currently works as a studio assistant for Judy Chicago and her husband photographer Donald Woodman in Belen, NM.