Excerpt from ©Almost Me, Studio Portrait of the Artist circa 20th Century (1971), 49.5x34 in., frame size 55x40 in. Contemporary print scanned from original hand-painted silver gelatin photograph (1971), New Print, Archival Pigment Print on canvas, 2025. Copyright © Mirta Gómez del Valle
Excerpt from ©Almost Me, circa 20th Century (1973), 22 5/8 x 15 3/4 in., frame size 27 3/4 x 20 3/4 in. Contemporary print scanned from original silver gelatin photograph printed by the artist approximately (1973), New Print, Archival, rag paper 2025, archival pigment print. Copyright © Mirta Gómez del Valle, Self-Portrait
Excerpt from ©Almost Me, circa 20th Century (1973), 22 5/8 x 15 3/4 in., frame size 27 3/4 x 20 3/4 in. Contemporary print scanned from original original silver gelatin photograph printed by the artist approximately (1973), New Print, Archival, rag paper 2025, archival pigment print. Copyright © Mirta Gómez del Valle, Self-Portrait
Excerpt from ©Almost Me, Series of three, 1 of 3 , circa 20th Century (1973), 10 1/4 x 16 in., frame size 11 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. Contemporary print scanned from original original silver gelatin photograph printed by the artist approximately (1973), New Print, Archival, rag paper 2025, archival pigment print.Copyright © Mirta Gómez del Valle
Excerpt from ©Almost Me, Series of three, 2 of 3 , circa 20th Century (1973), 10 1/4 x 16 in., frame size 11 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. Contemporary print scanned from original original silver gelatin photograph printed by the artist approximately (1973), New Print, Archival, rag paper 2025, archival pigment print.Copyright © Mirta Gómez del Valle
Excerpt from ©Almost Me, Series of three, 3 of 3 , circa 20th Century (1973), 10 1/4 x 16 in., frame size 11 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. Contemporary print scanned from original original silver gelatin photograph printed by the artist approximately (1973), New Print, Archival, rag paper 2025, archival pigment print.Copyright © Mirta Gómez del Valle
©Mirta Gómez del Valle
©Mirta Gómez was born in Havana, Cuba. She is the recipient of numerous artist fellowships including the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; Oscar B. Cintas Foundation; South Florida Cultural Consortium; National Endowment for the Arts; Florida Arts Council and New York State Council for the Arts. Her photographs were exhibited in the groundbreaking Inaugural Exhibition 2004 marking the reopening of The Museum of Modern Art in New York City and exhibited again at MoMA’s Landscape: Recent Acquisitions in 2006. Her work is widely exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, NY; Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; New Orleans Museum of Art, LA and others.
©Mirta Gómez del Valle is Emeritus Professor of Art/Photography at Florida International University in Miami where she taught from 1983 until her retirement in 2019. She holds an Associate in Arts Degree from Miami Dade College, Miami, FL; Bachelor of Fine Arts from Florida International University, Miami, FL and Master of Fine Arts from Brooklyn College, NY. She has co-authored seven books, including From the Ground Up (2003); Four Sections of Time (2004); Fried Waters (2005); Between Runs (2006); Witness Number Four (2008); En Vista (2009) and On View (2012) published by The Nazraeli Press.
©Mirta Gómez worked collaboratively with her husband for more than forty years. The couple received international acclaim for their photographs of subjects in a state of flux. Since their divorce in 2016 each party is pursuing a solo and separate career in the arts. She continues to photograph subjects in a state of transformation.