Antonio Pulgarin is a Colombian-American Lens-Based Artist who utilizes photography, and photographic collage to create conceptually focused works that tackle the themes of cultural and queer identity, memory, and displacement. Informed by his connections to both his Colombian Heritage and the Latinx narrative in America, Pulgarin creates collages utilizing the family archive, patterned fabrics and additional printed source materials. The final two-dimensional compositions often incorporate cut out patterns to obscure sections of the original archival image, often blocking out an entire figure. What we see is an incomplete family portrait, intentionally erased persons, deconstructed moments and new memories. In his work, elements of nostalgia, personal narrative- relating to his heritage, and notions of masculinity are all present. The collaged elements remind the viewer that these images have been intervened, brought to the present and reimagined. His work has been exhibited at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Aperture Foundation, BRIC, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Photo LA, Photoville, and The International Photo Festival Leiden. His work has received honors from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, YoungArts, EnFoco, The Magenta Foundation, Latin American Fotografia, American Photography, and PDN Photo Annual. Pulgarin’s work has been featured in publications such as Vice, Vice Colombia, BESE, Slate, LensCulture, The Huffington Post, and Photo District News. Pulgarin is a current Fellow of the AIM program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.