Juan Carlos Alom

Juan Carlos Alom (born 1964 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban photographer and filmmaker whose multidisciplinary practice explores identity, survival, spirituality, landscape, and the communities that comprise Cuba and its diaspora. Working across documentary and experimental photography, film, and video, Alom examines the social and emotional realities of Cuban life through spontaneous image-making, symbolic composition, and an approach shaped by the economic and political upheavals of the country’s Special Period.  Alom studied photographic restoration and conservation at the Fototeca de Cuba and later graduated from the Semiotic Studio of Urban Environment at Havana’s International Institute of Journalism. His work often engages Afro-Cuban religion, ritual, race, migration, sexuality, the body, and human relationships with the natural environment, using black-and-white film, experimental processing, cinematic sequencing, and intimate documentary observation to consider resilience, vulnerability, and collective memory.  His work has been exhibited at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, the San Francisco Art Institute, El Apartamento, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Havana Biennial, and institutions throughout the Americas, Europe, and South Africa. He was selected by Time as one of Latin America’s most relevant photographers of the millennium and served as a Mellon Artist in Residence at New York University’s Hemispheric Institute. Recent gallery information places Juan Carlos Alom in New York, while his practice and exhibition history remain deeply connected to Havana.