Harry Gamboa Jr.

Each chapter will feature a conversation between the most remarkable artists from Latin America and Latinx in the U.S. and our MOLAA Chief Curator Gabriela Urtiaga. Together we will focus on a series or specific artwork which requires a close inspection, a deliberate process of contemplation, and exploration; delving into the ideas surrounding the creation of the works, their sources of research and inspiration, in an effort to immerse ourselves in the world of the artists. 

Harry Gamboa Jr. is an artist, author, and educator.

He is the founder and director of the international performance troupe, Virtual Vérité (2005-2017).

He is also a co-founder of Asco (1972-1985), the Los Angeles-based performance group.

He is Co-Director, Photo/Media Program, California Institute of the Arts.

His work has been exhibited/collected nationally/internationally: Ludwig Museum, Cologne (2020); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2020); Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery (2019); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2016, 2015 and 1995 Biennial); Centre d’Arts Plastiques Contemporain Bordeaux, France (2014); De Appel, Amsterdam (2014); Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, England (2013); Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. (2013); Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England (2013); Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (2011, 1981); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2011, 2008, 2001); Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2006); Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark (1996).

He is the author of Xoloitzcuintli Doppelgänger and other stories.  His recent essays have appeared in Polity of Literature (Amsterdam), Pfeil No. 10 (Hamburg), and Exploring Commonism A New Aesthetics of the Real (Antwerp).  He is the author of Urban Exile: Collected Writings of Harry Gamboa Jr., edited by Chon A. Noriega, University of Minnesota Press, 1998.