I.F. Gonzales
Photo by Kristen Finn
Artist Fellow
I.F Gonzales (they/them) is a nonbinary diasporic Filipinx (Kapampangan and Visayan) artist, academic, and archive-maker from the semi-rural exurbs of Southern Illinois. Their visual and written work explores themes of sexuality, gender, race, empire, body, and place through a critical engagement with the shared tropes, themes, and archetypes, and schemas that make up our shared cultural landscapes. Through a multidisciplinary practice including printmaking, collage, fabrication, illustration, poetry, and nonfiction writing, I.F. Gonzales takes the (sometimes literal) detritus of the present and transforms it into critical assemblages, visual reflections on the histories, forms of oppression, modes of resistance, and potential futures embodied in such objects. These works highlight the discarded, the underlooked, the suppressed, the oppressed, and the under-acknowledged, all to imagine alternative ways of being in the world, and the illuminatory potential for radically different futures.
Website: www.ifgonzales.com
Instagram: @ifpistemology
I.F. is a 2025 New City Arts Fellow. Their Fellowship project, “we stand for our flag” repurposes discarded, damaged, and overstock LGBTQ+ pride merchandise to expose how queerness, nationalism, and extractive petrochemical industries intersect in unexpected and seemingly contradictory ways.
