An Exhibition by Rogerio M. Pinto
February 14 – March 12, 2025
Duderstadt Center Gallery
Rogério Pinto’s multimedia art exhibit, Colorism, comprises works of video, still photography, sculpture and audience interaction, questioning our psychosocial and biological ideas about skin color and treatment of people, based on skin tones, including within racial groups. Pinto uses art and science to reveal misconceptions and poke fun at how skin color has been used to separate rather than unite us. His careers in social work and the arts were inspired by growing up poor and queer during a dictatorship in Brazil and presenting as an ethnic and sexual minority in the United States.
“My exhibit questions how humans came to use the largest and most beautiful organ of the body to assign social and cultural value to some and to denigrate others.”
Rogerio Pinto