Quito Ziegler is an artist, producer, faeriebird and dreamer based in Brooklyn, New York.

She takes a LOT of pictures of her queer friends.  A book of these images will be published by the Daylight Foundation in 2013.

She recently said goodbye to a great job at the Open Society Institute‘s Documentary Photography Project as the Exhibition Producer for Moving Walls, and the Outreach Coordinator for other projects that explored the intersection of photography and human rights.  More on leaving OSI, and her decision to come out as transgender, can be found here.  She currently works with an artist collective called the Department of Transformation and serves as Program Coordinator for the Queer/Art/Mentorship program.

Quito received her MFA from the International Center of Photography/Bard College in 2008, where she now serves as faculty.  She is a co-founder of the Minnesota Immigrant Freedom Network, which she co-directed from 2003-2006 while producing large-scale public photography projects on immigration issues.

Major projects since 2010 include co-curating the event series Not Over: You, Me, Us & AIDS with Visual AIDS, producing the Mixploratorium exhibition at La Mama Galleria, commissioning the queer performance art series Fame and Shame on the Lower East Side at Le Petit Versailles and the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center, co-producing the Pop-Up Museum of Queer History, curating and producing Into the Neon for chashama and The Artist is Absent at 25CPW, producing the documentary photography exhibition Moving Walls 18 at the Open Society Institute, photographing queer dance parties, and traveling cross-country on an epic faerie journey in an unmarked white van called the Trojan Pony.

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