Quetzal Maucci
Lens-based Artist & Educator
Based in London, UK
Open for commissions, teaching, exhibitions, and collaborations.
Lens-based Artist & Educator
Based in London, UK
Open for commissions, teaching, exhibitions, and collaborations.
Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions across Europe and the United States. Most recently, her series By The Time She Grows Up was shortlisted for the PhotoVogue Women by Women exhibition and presented in Milan, Italy. In April 2026, she was selected as a finalist for Context 2026, juried by Sara Ickow, and exhibited at Filter Photo in Chicago, USA.
In 2025, her work was exhibited in the World Press Photo & Pride Photo Exhibition and the 2024–25 Pride Photo Traveling Outdoor Exhibition in the Netherlands. In 2022, a dummy book of Piccoli Baci was shortlisted and exhibited at the Photolux Festival in Lucca, before traveling to the Rencontres d'Arles in France. That same year, Children of Migrants was selected as a finalist and exhibited at the Hellerau Portraiture Exhibition in Dresden.
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Women by Women
March 2026
Photo Vogue: Women by Women was a group exhibition at the PhotoVogue Festival featuring women photographers from around the world, selected through an open call. It focused on themes like identity, relationships, and everyday life, showing a wide range of personal perspectives. The exhibition aimed to highlight women’s voices in photography and give them space to tell their own stories. Winners and shortlisted artists exhibited at BASE Milano as part of the PhotoVogue Festival.
Context 2026, juried by Sara Ickow
April 2026
Context 2026 is Filter Photo’s twelfth annual survey exhibition of contemporary photography, juried by Sara Ickow. Featuring 25 artists, the exhibition highlights the expansive possibilities of the photographic medium—from analog and digital processes to collage and experimental techniques. Through works addressing themes such as climate, migration, intimacy, memory, and identity, Context 2026 invites viewers to engage with diverse perspectives and reflect on the complexities of contemporary life.
Featured Artists
Andrés Altamirano, Mark Ambruster, Joshua Aronson, Sasha Arutyunova, Shweta Bist, Juror's Choice, Cleo Cartwright, Stephen Clay, Jorge Ariel Escobar, Garrett O. Hansen, Zackery Hobler, James Hosking, Pratya Jankong, Marie Ketring, Cassandra Klos, Andrew Kung, Alejandro Manuel Martinez, Quetzal Maucci, Walter Morataya Ramirez, Sarah Palmer, Alice Proujansky, Rachel Girard Reisert, Ginger Russell, Chelsea Tan, Joshua Taylor, and Hamzeh Zahran
Queer Havens
Summer 2025
The World Press Photo and Pride Photo presented Queer Havens, a special exhibition that explored what safe spaces looked like for the LGBTQIA+ community through 11 photographic projects, each offering a distinct perspective on finding or creating safety as an LGBTQIA+ person. Spanning more than 40 photographs, the works depicted a wide range of queer experiences—from chosen families and intimate relationships to nightlife, reclaiming queer history, personal transitions, and acts of remembrance—showing how queer communities imagined and created safe spaces. The exhibition was open during Amsterdam Pride.
Featured Artists
Mackenzie Calle, Maika Elan, Tamta Gokadze, Temiloluwa Johnson, Quetzal Maucci, Hannah Reyes Morales, Mads Nissen, Andrés Gregorio Pérez, Adrien Selbert, Ky Smiley, and Cansu Yıldıran.
Queer Resilience
Summer 2024-2025
Pride Photo: Queer Resilience was an exhibition presenting a global selection of photographs that explored queer lives, identities, and communities. Framed as a “visual love letter,” it brought together images showing both the challenges and the everyday realities of LGBTQIA+ people, highlighting themes of strength, visibility, and self-expression. The exhibition aimed to offer a broad, personal view of queer experiences from around the world.
Featured Artists
Alexis, Arianne Clément, Asafe Ghalib, Carla Yovane, Chris & Marjan, Constance Koningsberger, Cansu Yıldıran, Eugenio Bosco, Jairo Nicolás Bernal, Julie Sundberg, Karwan Karim, Marika Kochiashvili, Martha Tadesse, Quetzal Maucci, and Roman Manfredi.
Counterparts
April-June 2022
PORTRAITS – Hellerau Photography Award: Counterparts presented the 2022 finalist exhibition of the international portrait photography prize, shown in Dresden at both HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts and Technische Sammlungen. The exhibition featured selected artists exploring portraiture as dialogue and contrast, focusing on identity and relationships through contemporary photographic approaches.
Featured Artists
Hannah Altman, Alfonso de Gregorio, Marina Dyakonova, Jesse Egner, Tara Fallaux, Tori Ferenc, Gabriele Galimberti, Svante Gullichsen, Ruben Hamelink, Robin Hinsch, Lise Johansson, Monika, Keiler, Alexander Komenda, Frank Krems, Sean Lee, Christian K. Lee, Xiangyu Long, Quetzal Maucci, Ettore Moni, Peter Pflügler, Heja Rahiminia, Daniel Seiffert, Niv Shimshon, Jerry Takigawa, Federico Tisa, Hanne Van Assche, Rogério Vieira, Shelli Weiler, and Nina Welch-Kling.
Below are exhibitions with Photo Fringe in Brighton, UK, Open Walls in Galerie Huit Arles with British Journal of Photography, Photo Lux Festival, and Photo Scratch spanning the years 2021-2023.