Visiting Artist: Steven Molina Contreras

May 12 - May 26, 2025

Steven Molina Contreras (b. San Salvador, El Salvador) is a Brooklyn-based artist and photographer whose work explores themes of migration, family, and belonging. Rooted in personal history and cultural memory, his images blend documentary aesthetics with performance and vernacular image-making to reimagine domestic and everyday spaces as sites of transformation and resilience.

His work has been exhibited at the Musée de l’Elysée, the Hood Museum of Art, and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, and has traveled nationally through You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography. His photographs have appeared in Aperture, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Matte Magazine and are held in the collections of the Hood Museum and Light Work. He has been an artist-in-residence at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock. He has lectured at institutions including NYU, Stanford, Bard College, Anderson Arts Center, and Pratt.