D.A. Gonzales (b. 1995 Bakersfield, CA) is a photographer whose work emerges from his own history of post-mestizo whiteness in the context of California. Using both traditional and contemporary photography, performance of legal practices, archival research, and technological constructions, Gonzales looks at private and public histories of post-mestizo identity to unpack the assemblage of subject-formation in the so-called ‘American West.’ In particular, his work focuses on technological photographic development as both production and expression of white subjectivity within the west. Gonzales received a bachelors degree in literature from California State University Channel Islands and an MFA in photography at UCLA.

Currently based in Los Angeles

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