Incoming Fellow

Diego Borgsdorf Fuenzalida

(he/him)

2025–2027

Diego Borgsdorf Fuenzalida is an experimental ethnographic researcher and textile artist based between Los Angeles and Washington, DC. His work addresses the affective dimensions of post-dictatorship life in Chile and the diaspora, using traditional Andean textile methods and enlisting materials critical in the formation of political violence in South America such as sheep’s wool, copper, and salt. Borgsdorf Fuenzalida’s work has been exhibited at Wolfpack HQ through the Estate of Luchita Hurtado and Lee Mullican, Los Angeles; Glen Echo Arts Park, Rockville, Maryland; IA&A Hillyer Gallery, Washington DC, Room 3557, Los Angeles; Launch LA, Los Angeles; and Mile 44, Los Angeles. He was a 2024 Iburra Arts and Research Resident at the natural dye studio Blue Light Junction in Baltimore, and was a 2025 Bresler Artist in Resident at VisArts in Rockville, Maryland. They have published research contributions at the Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Santiago, Chile and an artist book entitled A House Containing with Wolfpack HQ sold at Artbook at Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles.