Gina Valona

Teaches at Los Angeles Center of Photography

Gina Valona is a photographer, performer and arts educator who uses various mediums to process and transform personal experiences into works addressing issues of identity and sustainability. She has has exhibited her photography in galleries throughout the U.S. and has performed on stage at the Getty Center Los Angeles, the Shanghai International Theatre Festival (China) the National Theatre of South Korea. Currently she is pursuing her MFA in Public Practice at OTIS College of Art and Design and is an instructor at the Los Angeles Center for Photography. Her artistic goal is to create works that spark meaningful conversations. She believes that conscious daily actions may serve as both quiet and/or radical acts of revolution that initiate positive personal, local and global change.