Raúl Vega · Winner Collectors Art Prize
Raúl Vega attended Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA and the University of Florence, Italy majoring in architecture. After college, Raúl quickly turned to photography. His award-winning photographs have appeared, often as covers, in such magazines as Time, Esquire, Andy Warhol’s Interview, the New Yorker, the New York Times, Glamour, Vogue and Vanity Fair, among many others.
His portrait of Carl Sagan was selected to be part of a special exhibit: “Forces of Nature: Voices that Shaped Environmentalism” for the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. Raúl has shown work for an Aids benefit at the Annenberg Space for Photography and co-curated benefit photography exhibitions at the Leica Gallery.
Raúl teaches Photography classes for the Los Angeles Dept. of Cultural Affairs. Raúl has been teaching at Otis College of Art & Design since Fall 2010. He has also been teaching children and high schoolers photography with emphasis on editing for the past 5 years. Raúl lives in Los Angeles.
untitled Arc, 2023, Photography, 38.1 x 50.8 cm
sontal, 2024, Photography, 101.6 x 76.2 cm
paradise cashed, 2024, Photography, 76.2 x 101.6
shifting, 2025, Photography, 101.6 x 76.2 cm
time will tell, 2024, Photography, 76.2 x 101.6 cm
