Danny Aros

My practice exists at the intersection of queerness, heritage, and community. Through photography and archival research, I explore gender, sex, and diaspora as pathways to understanding identity. As an immigrant and gender non-conforming artist, I examine the nuances of masculinity and the repression of femininity shaped by the Puritan whitewashing of morality. By preserving my family’s memory and their migration to the United States, I bridge personal history with collective experience. My work aims to awaken self-reflection and empathy, creating portals where viewers question inherited beliefs and engage with the layered realities of identity, representation, and belonging.

self taught

Solo Exhibitions-

2024 Sin Derechos No Hay Paraíso, Biblioteca Pública Gabriel López
Chiñas, Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca, México
Sin Derechos No Hay Paraíso, BxArts Factory, NY
2023 Sandunga Nunca Muere, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR

Group Exhibitions-

2025 The Legacy Lab: Life Interwoven, Pregones Theater, Bronx, NY
Centéotl, Hemeroteca Pública de Oaxaca, Oaxaca City, MX
2024 BxARTS, BxArts Factory, Bronx, NY
2023 Love is the Norm, Riverfront Art Gallery, Yonkers, NY
Sandunga Nunca Muere, Photoville, Brooklyn, NY
I See You, Montefiore Einstein, Bronx, NY
2022 Reveal, Wallworks, Bronx, NY
Homage, On The Fringe, New York, NY
Analog Today, Downtown Arts Collective, Orlando, FL
2021 Edition 365, British Journal of Photography, London, UK
Photo for Non-Majors, Humble Arts Foundation, New York, NY
Circle 2021, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gimpo, S. Korea
2020 Art4Equality, The Untitled Space, New York, NY
The Other Utopias, Cohen Library Archives Gallery, New York, NY