Eve Xelestiál Moreno–Luz
Xelestiál Moreno-Luz is a woman of transgender experience, interdisciplinary artist, and advocate living in Los Angeles (Tongva Nation), CA. Originally raised in Southeast & Central Los Angeles, she currently serves as the Program Manager at REACH LA – a historical arts organization that has empowered LGBTQ+ BIPOC communities in Los Angeles since 1992. Xelestiál’s approach to her art and social justice practice focuses on collective autonomy, memory, desire, self-determination, and enhancing the visual intelligence of her communities. Xelestiál currently holds a B.A. in Media from the University of California, San Diego, where her thesis work highlights Mexican and Colombian transgender identities building community through social movements and performance/performing arts. She also serves on the Los Angeles Executive Board of Somos LOUD, an affinity group under the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, working to enhance community interdependence for Latiné people resisting oppression across the diaspora. Xelestiál’s visual work has been co-featured at the Museo Nacional de la Estampa, the Huntington, the Getty Museum, and on Rest for Resistance. Xelestiál’s speaking and workshop engagements include the California African American Museum, Chosen Family and the Photograph; University of California Berkeley, Arts in Times of Crisis; Princeton University, Hispanic Heritage Month, LGBTQ+ Latiné Social Movements; Harvard University, LGBTQ+ Identity in Latin America; and national conferences like NAESM, Biomedical HIV Prevention Summit, and the United States Conference on HIV and AIDS.
