Frank Lopez is a visual artist specializing in 19th – 21st century photographic integration. Raised in Dallas, Frank earned his degree in Photography from East Texas State University (now TAMU-Commerce) in 1990 and has worked in the photographic field ever since. Frank has instructed at the university, secondary school and/or professional workshop level for the better part of 33 years and is a frequent guest lecturer based on experimental and cultural imagery. Frank leads the international award-winning Photography Program at Greenhill School, a coed independent school in Addison, TX. His students have won at local, national and international competitions and have exhibited alongside professional artists. Greenhill Photography remains an issues-based program detailing student experience of gender, LGBTQ2+ issues, racial and cultural identity, and personal discovery. It remains a 19th – 21st integrated technology program.
In 2020, Frank was awarded the Center Santa Fe Callanan Award for Photographic Teaching Excellence. Furthermore, he won the Dallas Observer MasterMind award in 2011 that recognized artists making a significant cultural contribution to the city of Dallas. Finally, in 2011 Frank was awarded the highest award given to Greenhill School Faculty in his first year of eligibility: Faculty Leader.
He has curated two exhibitions for the Bath House Cultural Center, been published and exhibited extensively and given lectures to Texas Photographic Society, the Perot Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art and others. Frank’s interviews on KERA, the Art of Photography Podcast and the Dallas Observer may be found at this website.
He is available for commissions, print sales, lectures and workshops.