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Hector R. Membreno-Canales is a Honduran-American artist, educator, and researcher currently living and working in Massachusetts. He was appointed as a Lecturer in Visual Studies and Photography at Phillips Academy Andover and also teaches in the Art, Culture, Technology (ACT) program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.). In 2022, he completed the Smithsonian Institution's inaugural U.S. Army Monuments Officer Training. Originally from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, he became a U.S. citizen while living in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Hector served for more than a decade as a Public Affairs Officer in the Army, with deployments in Iraq, El Salvador, Poland, Germany, and Canada. He utilized the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Photography from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) and a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from the Department of Art & Art History at Hunter College, City University of New York. His work has received numerous grants and awards from organizations such as the Eddie Adams Workshop, Red Bull Arts, Magnum Foundation, and Harvard University, and his photographs have been widely exhibited in the United States and internationally at venues including the Triennale der Photographie Hamburg, Osnova Gallery in Moscow, Aperture Foundation in New York City, Delaware Contemporary Museum of Art, and the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art (ATHICA). Additionally, his photographs have been featured in publications such as New York Magazine, The New Republic, Columbia Journalism Review, NPR, and CNN, as well as L’Oeil de la Photographie.