Dominick Porras
Dominick Porras is an Indigenous multidisciplinary artist and academic instructor residing in California. His practice, which is grounded in lens-based media, archival investigation, and Chicano/Coahuiltecan heritage, foregrounds community-based methodologies and intertribal collaboration. Over the past two decades, Porras has been a key cultural worker and co-founder of Sol Collective, a Sacramento non-profit that merges arts, activism, and community education. His photographic and media work has played a central role in defining the organization’s visual language and public presence. Porras earned his MFA in Studio Art from the Institute of American Indian Arts in 2023 and currently teaches courses in photography and New Media.
His tryptych, de Bry’s Slipstream, emerges from a larger ongoing project slated for exhibition in Fall 2026. This body of work engages with Theodor de Bry’s 16th-century engravings and the ethnographic writings of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Through digital interventions, Porras interrogates the visual politics of early colonial representation and reasserts Indigenous ecological and cultural knowledge systems.
Website: https://dominick-porras.webflow.io/