Wordsworth Prescott Musinguzi (he/him) is a Trans first-generation Ugandan-Liberian American photographer, visual artist and author based in Minneapolis, MN. His work focuses on documenting and archiving intergenerational social movements and subcultures in the United States through portrait projects, books, zines, and exhibits. He is a member of Burn Something Collective, co-lead of BOI TOY Studio and co-founder of The Brass Strap Cooperative. He has self-published 11 publications, including The Letter Formally Known As Q (Wise Ink Publishing, 2021).
His work has been acquired by local and national archives that include Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Ohio University’s Robert E. and Jean R. Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Wordsworth is the recipient of the 2018 Early Career Research & Development Grant from Forecast Public Art, 2019 Artist Initiative Grant, 2020 Black Press Freedom Fund from the International Center of Photography, and 2021 Next Step Fund from Metropolitan Regional Arts Council. He has participated in and contributed to a variety of local and national residency and fellowship programs, including the 2014 Artist-In-Residence with Youthprise, 2018 THREAD Fellowship at Yale University, 2021 Black Seed Fellowship with Headwaters Foundation, 2022 DigiMyths Residency with Soft Surplus, and 2023 Emerging Curators Institute Fellowship.
