Xelestial Moreno-Luz

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Xelestial Moreno-Luz is an award-winning artist from South East and Central Los Angeles. She utilizes lens-based approaches to uplift trans bodies in performance, fugitivity, and collaboration within her social and art practice. She has spent the past ten years working and learning in coalition with community members dedicated to confronting immigrant injustice, fostering diasporic liberatory spaces, expanding the field of queer and transgender art education, building towards youth futurity, and increasing access to HIV resources to communities of color. She is currently pursuing an MFA at the University of California, San Diego, where she documents and expands on the visual culture of transgender sex workers, artists, and members of the House and Ballroom Community. Xelestial has received awards from the Ford Foundation, UC San Diego, the Center for Cultural Power, and the California Arts Council to expand on her practice and the visual landscape of transgender communities across the Americas. She is the founder and CEO of Saturn’s Wish, a transgender, non-binary, and intersex arts and culture organization uplifting communities of color in Los Angeles County and beyond.