Victor Yañez-Lazcano received his MFA from Stanford University and his BFA from Columbia College Chicago. While in Chicago he balanced a freelance career in both commercial and fine art photography. During this time, he also established himself as an arts educator through the Museum of Contemporary Photography and Columbia College’s Project AIM (Arts Integration and Mentorship). In 2012, Yañez-Lazcano co-founded LATITUDE, a non-profit community digital lab for photographers in Chicago. Since 2018, he has been a visiting lecturer in art at various institutions including Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.
His work was recently exhibited at Root Division in San Francisco, Perspective Gallery in Milwaukee and at the Design Museum of Chicago. He is the recipient of a Nō Studio artist grant and recently completed a residency at Djerassi in Woodside California.
