Nate Larson y El Puente:
On Juvenile Incarceration in Argentina
The Julio Fine Arts Gallery at Loyola University presents Nate Larson y El Puente: On Juvenile Incarceration in Argentina. This exhibition is a community-based empathetic documentary project using photographs to facilitate conversations and share the lives, experiences, tensions, and joys of juveniles living within the carceral systems near La Plata, Argentina. The exhibition features photographs by Nate Larson, Eleonora Ghioldi, Daniela Guerisoli, and photographs and bookworks by youth participants.
The project is produced as a collaboration with artist Nate Larson, El Puente Arte y Cultura, and Residencia Corazón. This project is supported in part by a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, a Rubys Artist Grant from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, a Marcella Brenner Grant for Faculty Development & Research from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and a Lighton International Artists Exchange Program (LIAEP) Grant. The Exhibition and Artist Residency is supported in part by the Center for Humanities, Loyola University Maryland.
On View: Oct. 8 – Nov. 14, 2026
Opening Reception: Thurs, October 8, 2026 | 6-8PM
Artist-in-Residence Talk: Tues, October 27, 2026 | 6:30PM | McManus Theatre
Image caption: Nate Larson, Ariel en la Invernadero, Centro de Recepción Eva Peron, Abasto, Argentina, 2024, Archival Inkjet on Baryta Paper, 18” x 24”, Edition: 1/6
About Nate LarsonNate Larson (he/him) is a contemporary artist and documentarian working with photographic media, artist books and time-based media. His projects have been widely exhibited across the US and internationally as well as featured in numerous publications and media outlets, including Wired, The Guardian, The Picture Show from NPR, Slate, CNN, Hyperallergic, Gizmodo, Buzzfeed News, Vice Magazine, the New York Times, Utne Reader, Hotshoe Magazine, Flavorwire, the BBC News Viewfinder, Frieze Magazine, the British Journal of Photography, APM’s Marketplace Tech Report, the Washington Post, and Art Papers. His artwork is included in the permanent collections of the George Eastman Museum, High Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Orlando Museum of Art, Portland Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago.
His most widely known project Geolocation, in collaboration with Marni Shindelman, tracks GPS coordinates associated with Twitter tweets and pairs the text with a photograph of the originating site to mark the virtual information in the real world. New site-specific work from the series was recently completed for the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, Salisbury University Art Galleries in Maryland, Third Space Gallery in New Brunswick, Walter N. Marks Center for the Arts in California, and the Format International Photography Festival in the UK. Larson and Shindelman recently created site-specific public artworks for the Atlanta Celebrates Photography Public Art Commission, the Indianapolis International Airport, and the DUMBO Business Improvement District. Geolocation was featured in the “State of the Art” survey exhibition at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in 2014, which toured nationally, including the Mint Museum in Charlotte and Frist Art Museum in Nashville. Flash Powder Projects published a monograph of the project in 2016.
Nate Larson is the Photography Area Head at MICA / Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. He has served as a Rubys Artist Fellow with the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, the McCullough Research Fellow at Marietta College, the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Visiting Artist Fellow at Duke University, and an artist-in-residence with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in Florida, among other honors.