Lorena Turner is a social scientist with a camera. She creates indexes of socialization and contemporary social experience. Her projects are primarily photographic, but can contain interviews and video, as well as emphasize graphic design. Her work is shown both nationally and internationally. Lorena received an MFA from the University of Oregon, and teaches photojournalism and documentary studies in the Communication department at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, California.

She resides in both Los Angeles and New York City.

Also: risingrwanda.org

2012
• Made in China, Curbs and Stoops, Brooklyn, NY

2011
• Made in China (solo), .00156 acres, Brooklyn, NY
• Made in China, "Migration", Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
• Rising Rwanda (solo), Mercy Corps Global Headquarters, Portland, OR
• Michael Jacksons (solo), The ArcLight Theater, Hollywood, CA

2010
• Made in China, Exhibit A Competition, Sydney, Australia
• Rising Rwanda, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
• Selection from Michael Jacksons, NUTUREart Benefit. Cue Art Foundation. New York, NY
• New Americans (solo), Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, CA
• Selection from Made in China + Artist Showcase Award, Center for Fine Art Photography,
  Ft. Collins, CO

2009
• Made in China (solo), Cartel Gallery, Atlanta, GA
• Selections from Made in China, NUTUREart Benefit. Cue Art Foundation. New York, NY
• Selection from Things We Forgot to Miss, SB D Gallery, New York, NY
• New Americans, Office of Doug Biviano, Candidate for City Council, Brooklyn, NY
• Selections from The Ubutunzi Project (early version of Rising Rwanda), Tree, Kigali, Rwanda

2008
• Select images from The Ubutunzi Project (early version of Rising Rwanda), World Culture Open, New York, NY

2007
• La Boquilla, Colombian Consulate, New York, NY

2006
• La Boquilla, Golden West College Arts Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA
• La Boquilla, Museo Histórico de Cartegena de Indias, Cartegena, Colombia
• La Boquilla, White Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR
• La Boquilla, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Centro Cultural Teatro Municipal, Bogotá, Colombia

University of Oregon, MFA/Photography
University of New Mexico
University of Massachusetts, BA/Studio Arts + Communications