Who Is
Electric
Locusts?
Matt Guerra. Houston-based visual artist exploring mental illness, identity, and the evidence we leave behind.
My whole life I have had an unstable sense of identity. Trying to find where I fit in the world has caused me tremendous strife, an obsession that has shaped everything I create.
I work across photography, video art, mixed media, and alternative processes like cyanotype printing. My practice began with medium format film and has evolved to include scratching and burning my own image from negatives, handmade artist books, video installations, and portrait series that explore gratitude, masculinity, and the weight of depression.
Living with bipolar disorder, anxiety, OCD, and ADHD has left me broken and confused at times, but it has also given me something urgent to say. I believe that art has the power to help people feel less alone.
“If even one person views my work and decides to fight for mental health advocacy, then every painful moment of its creation will have been worth it.”
How I Work
Medium Format Film
The foundation of my practice—deliberate, contemplative image-making that captures detail and emotion
Alternative Processes
Cyanotypes, scratched negatives, burned emulsions—physical manipulation that mirrors internal states
Mixed Media & Installation
Combining photography, text, and objects to create immersive narrative experiences
Video Art
Time-based work exploring addiction, identity, and psychological states through moving image
Creative Timeline
Electric Locusts Relaunch
Relaunching as a personal artistic practice with renewed focus on mental health advocacy through visual art
Deconstructing Masculinity
Portrait series challenging narrow societal definitions of manhood through vulnerability and emotional expression
Self Annihilation
Mixed media exploration of identity, mental illness, and addiction—scratching and burning myself off medium format negatives
Alternative Processes
Began working with cyanotypes and physical manipulation of photographic materials