Hector R. Membreno-Canales

Hector is a Honduran-American artist, educator, and researcher living and working in Massachusetts. In 2023 he was appointed the Francis C. Robertson Instructor of Visual Studies and Photography at Phillips Acadamy Andover and he is a Lecturer in the Art Culture and Technology (ACT) program at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) In 2022, he completed the Smithsonian Institution's inaugural U.S. Army Monuments Officer Training. 

Hector was born in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and became a U.S. citizen in Allentown Pennsylvania. He served more than a decade as a US Army Public Affairs Officer with posts and deployments to Iraq, El Salvador, Poland, Germany, and Canada. He used the Post 9/11 G.I. Bill to earn a BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) and an MFA from the Dept. of Art & Art History at Hunter College, The City University of New York.

His work has received numerous grants and awards from The Eddie Adams Workshop, Red Bull Arts, Magnum Foundation, and Harvard University. His photographs have been exhibited widely in the United States and internationally including at Triennale der Photographie Hamburg, Osnova Gallery Moscow, Aperture Foundation NYC, The Delaware Contemporary Museum of Art,  Athens Institute of Contemporary Art (ATHICA), Photoville NYC, and FotoFest Houston. His photographs have been featured in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Columbia Journalism Review, NPR, CNN, and L’Oeil de la Photographie.