Biography
Dominic Bracco II is an installation artist, documentary photographer, playwright, author, and journalist.
His series of multidisciplinary projects on the U.S. Mexico borderlands earned him a 2016 Tim Hetherington Visionary Award for innovative media, a W. Eugene Smith fellowship, and a National Geographic Society Explorer’s grant. He is also the recipient of multiple Pulitzer Center grants, and a grant from the Chris Hondros Fund.
His works have been displayed at festivals, galleries and museums around the world, and are part of private and institutional collections including Worcester Art Museum, and theUniversity of Texas at Arlington Center for Southwest Studies; where he holds degrees in Journalism and Spanish literature.
Bracco’s reporting has appeared in National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Smithsonian Magazine, and many others.
He is a founding member of the artist collective Prime. Bracco lives in Mexico City.
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