Watch Recorded Talk Here: https://media.arts.ucsb.edu/files/wl/?id=0gt2KbufD8XCsTCIvwY3VCW2NE1ZjLRp
Artist Bio,
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 nationally/internationally: Ludwig Museum, Cologne (2020); Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery (2019); Marlborough Contemporary, New York (2017); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2016, 2015 and 1995 Biennial); Centre d’Arts Plastiques Contemporain Bordeaux, France (2014); De Appel, Amsterdam (2014); Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria (2013); Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, England (2013); Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. (2013); Le Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille, France (2013, 2017); Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (UNAM), Mexico City (2013); Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England (2013); Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (2011, 1981); Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne, Switzerland (2009); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2011, 2008, 2001); Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2006); Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark (1996); Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (1994).
He is the author of Xoloitzcuintli Doppelgänger and other stories. His recent essays have appeared in 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.
Artist Website: https://harrygamboajr.wordpress.com
Videos to Watch and Articles to Read:
1) Harry Gamboa Jr.: Chicano Male Unbonded (KCET 9:49 minutes)
2) Artforum Interview of Harry Gamboa Jr. (September 12, 2017)
3) A Chicano Artist Takes on COVID: Harry Gamboa Jr. (The Autry Museum, July 20, 2020)
4) Awe-Inspiring Portraits of Chicano Men that Resist Typecasting (Hyperallergic, July 31, 2018)
5) The 1970 Chicano Moratorium Bore Activism, Art, and Rebellion (KCRW, August 21, 2020)
Writing Assignment Due (Friday, January 22 by noon): Write a 2 page response to the videos and articles posted above for this week. Take good notes– Harry Gamboa Jr. is the subject of your formal research paper. See paper prompt HERE.
