Description
Author: Harry Gamboa Jr.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 08/18/2018
Pages: 106
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.99w x 0.22d
ISBN13: 9781724629906
ISBN10: 1724629905
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Urban & Street Lit
About the Author
Harry Gamboa Jr. (b. 1951, Los Angeles), is an artist, author, and educator. He founded/directed Virtual Vérité (2005-2017), the international troupe of perfiormers/scholars, to produce ephemeral actions and fotonovelas in Mexico City, Berlin, Paris, Antwerpen, and Los Angeles. He co-founded, Asco (1972-1985), the East L.A.-based performance group here he utilized photography, writing, videos and No Movie techniques to document/interpret the contemporary urban Chicano experience. He is a faculty member, Photo/Media Program in the School of Art at California Institute of the Arts. His 19702-1990's fiction, essays, plays, and poems are included in: Urban Exile: Collected Writings of Harry Gamboa Jr. Author; Harry Gamboa Jr. Editor: Chon A Noriega University of Minnesota Press 1998 He has received several awards: Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, 2004 Durfee Foundation Artist Award, 2001 J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts, 1990 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts Fellowship; Performance Art, 1987; New Genres, 1980 His works have been exhibited internationally: Los Angeles County Museum of Art Whitney Museum of American Art Tate Liverpool Centre Pompidou Museo de Bellas Artes (Mexico City) Smithsonian Museum of American Art He has been featured internationally: The New Yorker Flash Art Artforum Art in America The New York Times The Wall Street Journal ARTnews Le Monde Frieze Vanity Fair Los Angeles Times His photographs are in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and other museums. A permanent collection of his media works/papers has been established and archived at Stanford University.
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