Bio

Ted Rigoni’s contemporary photographic work centers on natural landscapes, urban illumination, and the intensity of athletic performance. He is drawn to the emotional narratives hidden within lonely, abandoned, and overlooked places, capturing them through digital images of the crenelated trunks of tightly clustered Aspen, rarefied golden dust and angled moonlight drifting across Mojave Desert dunes, the slow rise of superheated steam from geologic forces, the fog‑draped secrets of brooding rainforests, and the deteriorating remnants of human-made structures left to time. His photographs reveal how nature—and our own imaginations—preserve stories of what once existed and what may still linger. Equally compelling to him is the drama of athletes in motion. Rigoni transforms moments of competition into visual records of raw exertion, emotion, and the powerful physical narratives unfolding in real time.

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His solo exhibitions include Athlete Hands-Human Stories (formerly Emotive Dominion), Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (June/July, 2026); School Gallery, CLHS, a private school in Irvine CA (Aug/Sept 2025); and Sasse Museum of Art, Pomona, CA (Jan/Feb 2025), Bygone Patterns, Los Angeles Art Association, CA, 2023; and Oxidized, Progress Gallery, Pomona, CA (2020), and Auburn, WA (2022). Recent select Group Exhibitions include Fleur-ish, the heART, Tustin Area Council of Fine Arts, Tustin, CA (2026); Black and Gold, Accent Gallery (Curator’s Choice) online (2026); City of Hope bi-annual call for art, Lennar Cancer Treatment Center, Irvine, CA (2026); Members Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA (2026); World Photo Annual, Silver Award, reFocus, online, 2025; Ontario Airport Open,  Two Athlete Hands-Human Stories images, Dec 2025-Oct 2026; Juried Fine Art Exhibition, City of Laguna Beach, CA (2025); How Is the Weather: Art + Climate Change, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA (2026); Recent reviews and essays include Metals from the Mojave photo exhibit draws deep truths from what pioneers left behind, Auburn Reporter, 2022; Lassen Volcanic National Park Flip Book, published by National Park Photography Expeditions, Chino Hills, CA, 2021; Journeys in Photography, Samy’s Camera YouTube Series, Costa Mesa, CA, 2021; Oxidized, Dodho Magazine’s Call #14, Barcelona, Spain, 2020. 

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